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Dis*joint", n. [From OF. desjoint, p. p. of desjoindre. See Disjoint, v. t.] Difficult situation; dilemma; strait. [Obs.] "I stand in such disjoint." Chaucer.

Dis*joint", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disjointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disjointing.] 1. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.

Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?

Prior.

2. To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice.

Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall.

Longfellow.

3. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

Dis*joint", v. i. To fall in pieces. Shak.

Dis*joint"ed, a. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.

Dis*joint"ly, adv. In a disjointed state. Sandys.

Dis*ju`di*ca"tion (?), n. Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. [Obs.] Boyle.

Dis*junct" (ds*jkt"), a. [L. disjunctus, p. p. of disjungere to disjoin. See Disjoin, and cf. Disjoint.] 1. Disjoined; separated. [R.]

2. (Zoöl.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction.

Disjunct tetrachords (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

Dis*junc"tion (?), n. [L. disjunctio.] 1. The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.

2. A disjunctive proposition. Coleridge.

Dis*junc"tive (?), a. [L. disjunctivus: cf. F. disjonctif.] 1. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

2. (Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. "Disjunctive notes." Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although, except, lest, etc. -- Disjunctive proposition, one in which the parts are connected by disjunctive conjunctions; as it is either day or night. -- Disjunctive syllogism (Logic), one in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse.

Dis*junc"tive, n. (a) (Gram.) A disjunctive conjunction. (b) (Logic) A disjunctive proposition.

Dis*junc"tive*ly, adv. In a disjunctive manner; separately. Dr. H. More.

Dis*junc"ture (?; 135), n. The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation. Fuller.

Disk (dsk), n. [L. discus, Gr. di`skos. See Dish.] [Written also disc.] 1. A discus; a quoit.

Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart.

Pope.

2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.

3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

5. (Bot.) (a) The whole surface of a leaf. (b) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. (c) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

6. (Zoöl.) (a) The anterior surface or oral area of cœlenterate animals, as of sea anemones. (b) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. (c) In owls, the space around the eyes.

Disk engine, a form of rotary steam engine. -- Disk shell (Zoöl.), any species of Discina.

Dis*kind"ness (?), n. Unkindness; disservice. [R.] A. Tucker.

Disk"less (?), a. Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

Dis*lade" (?), v. t. To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.

Dis*leal" (?), a. [See Disloyal, Leal.] Disloyal; perfidious. [Obs.] "Disleal knight." Spenser.

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Dis*leave" (?), v. t. To deprive of leaves. [R.]

The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms.

Lowell.

Dis*like" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disliked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disliking.] 1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

Every nation dislikes an impost.

Johnson.

2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.

Dis*like", n. 1. A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.

God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin.

Hammond.

The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike.

Hannah More.

We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox.

J. Morley.

His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories.

A. W. Ward.

2. Discord; dissension. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Syn. -- Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. -- Dislike, Aversion, Reluctance, Repugnance, Disgust, Antipathy. Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but antipathy, repugnance, disgust, and aversion are more intense phases of dislike. Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an aversion to or for business. Reluctance and repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (repugnance being the stronger); as, a reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a repugnance to the submission required. Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness. Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a reluctance and repugnance to what crosses their will; a disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by antipathies for which they can give no good reason.

Dis*like"ful (?), a. Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.

Dis*like"li*hood (?), n. The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.

Dis*lik"en (?), v. t. To make unlike; to disguise. [Obs.] Shak.

Dis*like"ness, n. Unlikeness. [R.] Locke.

Dis*lik"er (?), n. One who dislikes or disrelishes.

Dis*limb" (?), v. t. To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [Obs.] Bailey.

Dis*limn" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + limn.] To efface, as a picture. [Obs.] Shak.

Dis*link" (?), v. t. To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.

Dis*live" (?), v. t. To deprive of life. [Obs.]

Telemachus dislived Amphimedon.

Chapman.

Dis"lo*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dislocated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dislocating (?).] [LL. dislocatus, p. p. of dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.] To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak.

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated.

Woodward.

And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again.

Fuller.

Dis"lo*cate (?), a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.] Dislocated. Montgomery.

Dis`lo*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. dislocation.] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.

2. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

3. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

Dis*lodge" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dislodged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dislodging.] [OF. deslogier, F. déloger; pref. des- (L. dis-) + OF. logier, F. loger. See Lodge.] 1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.

The Volscians are dislodg'd.

Shak.

Dis*lodge", v. i. To go from a place of rest. [R.]

Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns.

Milton.

Dis*lodge", n. Dwelling apart; separation. [R.]

Dis*lodg"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. délogement, OF. deslogement.] The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

Dis*loign" (?), v. t. [OF. desloignier. See Eloign.] To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.]

Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze.

Spenser.

Dis*loy"al (?), a. [Pref. dis- + loyal: cf. OF. desloial, desleal, F. déloyal. See Loyal.] Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.

Without a thought disloyal.

Mrs. Browning.

Syn. -- Disobedient; faithless; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; dishonest; inconstant; disaffected.

Dis*loy"al*ly, adv. In a disloyal manner.

Dis*loy"al*ty (?), n. [Pref. dis- + loyalty: cf. OF. desloiauté, deslealté, F. déloyauté.] Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

Dis*mail" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + mail: cf. OF. desmaillier.] To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

Dis"mal (?), a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., "I trow it was in the dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must be paid. See Dime.] 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]

An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day.

Spenser.

2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.

Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned.

Goldsmith.

A dismal description of an English November.

Southey.

Syn. -- Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill- boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.

Dis"mal*ly, adv. In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

Dis"mal*ness, n. The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Dis*man" (?), v. t. To unman. [Obs.] Feltham.

Dis*man"tle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismantled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismantling (?).] [F. démanteler, OF. desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See Mantle.] 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

2. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.

A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain.

Macaulay.

3. To disable; to render useless. Comber.

Syn. -- To demo&?;sh; raze. See Demol&?;sh.

Dis*march" (?), v. i. To march away. [Obs.]

Dis*mar"ry (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + marry: cf. OF. desmarier, F. démarier.] To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

Dis*mar"shal (?), v. t. To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [R.] Drummond.

Dis*mask" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + mask: cf. F. démasquer.] To divest of a mask. Shak.

Dis*mast" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismasting.] [Pref. dis- + mast: cf. F. démâter.] To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

Dis*mast"ment (?), n. The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [R.] Marshall.

Dis*maw" (?), v. t. To eject from the maw; to disgorge. [R.] Shelton.

Dis*may" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismaying.] [OE. desmaien, dismaien, OF. esmaier; pref. es- (L. ex) + OHG. magan to be strong or able; akin to E. may. In English the pref. es- was changed to dis- (L. dis-). See May, v. i.] 1. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

Josh. i. 9.

What words be these? What fears do you dismay?

Fairfax.

2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.]

Do not dismay yourself for this.

Spenser.

Syn. -- To terrify; fright; affright; frighten; appall; daunt; dishearthen; dispirit; discourage; deject; depress. -- To Dismay, Daunt, Appall. Dismay denotes a state of deep and gloomy apprehension. To daunt supposes something more sudden and startling. To appall is the strongest term, implying a sense of terror which overwhelms the faculties.

So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed, The lions roaring through the midnight shade.

Pope.

Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control.

Pope.

Now the last ruin the whole host appalls; Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls.

Pope.

Dis*may", v. i. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. [Obs.] Shak.

Dis*may", n. [Cf. OF. esmai, F. émoi. See Dismay, v. t.] 1. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay.

Macaulay.

Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.

Mrs. Barbauld.

2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser.

Syn. -- Dejection; discouragement; depression; fear; fright; terror; apprehension; alarm; affright.

Dis*may"ed*ness (?), n. A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

Dis*may"ful (?), a. Terrifying. Spenser.

||Disme (?), n. [OF. See Dime.] A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.

Dis*mem"ber (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismembered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismembering.] [OF. desmembrer, F. démembrer; pref. des- (L. dis) + OF. & F. membre limb. See Member.] 1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

Fowls obscene dismembered his remains.

Pope.

A society lacerated and dismembered.

Gladstone.

By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire.

Buckle.

2. To deprive of membership. [Obs.]

They were dismembered by vote of the house.

R. North.

Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.

Dis*mem"ber*ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. desmembrement, F. démembrement.] The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m&?;tilation; division; separation.

The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head.

Macaulay.

Dis*met"tled (?), a. Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [R.] Llewellyn.

Dis*miss" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismissed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismissing.] [L. dis- + missus, p. p. of mittere to send: cf. dimittere, OF. desmetre, F. démettre. See Demise, and cf. Dimit.] 1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

He dismissed the assembly.

Acts xix. 41.

Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock.

Cowper.

Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs.

Dryden.

2. To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

3. To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

Dis*miss", n. Dismission. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Dis*miss"al (?), n. Dismission; discharge.

Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal.

Motley.

Dis*mis"sion (?), n. [Cf. L. dimissio.] 1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.

3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

Dis*miss"ive (?), a. Giving dismission.

Dis*mort"gage (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismortaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismortgaging (?).] To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.

Dis*mount" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dismounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismounting.] [Pref. dis- + mount: cf. OF. desmonter, F. démonter.] 1. To come down; to descend. [Poetic]

But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.

Spenser.

2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.

Dis*mount", v. t. 1. To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.

Dismounted from his authority.

Barrow.

2. To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.

3. (Mech.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.

4. To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

Dis*nat"u*ral*ize (?), v. t. To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

Dis*na"tured (?; 135), a. [Pref. dis- + nature: cf. OF. desnaturé, F. dénaturé.] Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.

Dis`o*be"di*ence (?), n. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience.

Tillotson.

Dis`o*be"di*en*cy (?), n. Disobedience.

Dis`o*be"di*ent (?), a. [Pref. dis- + obedient. See Disobey, Obedient.] 1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.

This disobedient spirit in the colonies.

Burke.

Disobedient unto the word of the Lord.

1 Kings xiii. 26.

2. Not yielding.

Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli.

E. Darwin.

Dis`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. In a disobedient manner.

Dis`o*bei"sance (?), n. [F. désobéissance.] Disobedience. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Dis`o*bei"sant (?), a. [F. désobéissant.] Disobedient. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dis`o*bey" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disobeyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disobeying.] [F. désobéir; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + obéir. See Obey, and cf. Disobedient.] Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.

Not to disobey her lord's behest.

Tennyson.

Dis`o*bey", v. i. To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.

He durst not know how to disobey.

Sir P. Sidney.

Dis`o*bey"er (?), n. One who disobeys.

Dis*ob`li*ga"tion (?), n. 1. The act of disobliging.

2. A disobliging act; an offense. [Obs.] Clarendon.

3. Release from obligation. Jer. Taylor.

Dis*ob"li*ga*to*ry (?), a. Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

Dis`o*blige" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disobliged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disobliging.] [Pref. dis- + oblige: cf. F. désobliger.] 1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.

Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them.

South.

My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige.

Addison.

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2. To release from obligation. [Obs.]

Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause.

Milton.

Dis`o*blige"ment (?), n. Release from obligation. [Obs.]

Dis`o*bli"ger (?), n. One who disobliges.

Dis`o*bli"ging (?), a. 1. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.

2. Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] Cov. of Tongue.

-- Dis`o*bli"ging*ly, adv. -- Dis`o*bli"ging*ness, n.

Dis*oc"ci*dent (?), v. t. To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.

Dis*oc`cu*pa"tion (?), n. The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]

Dis`o*pin"ion (?), n. Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

Dis*op"pi*late (?), v. t. [L. dis- + oppilatus, p. p. of oppilare to shut up.] To open. [Obs.] Holland.

Dis*orb" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + orb.] To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere. Shak.

Dis*ord" (?), n. Disorder. [Obs.] Holland.

Dis`or*deined" (?), a. [See Ordain.] Inordinate; irregular; vicious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dis*or"der (?), n. [Pref. dis- + order: cf. F. désordre.] 1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Pope.

3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. Shak.

4. Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy or of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." Locke.

Syn. -- Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle; disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness; ailment; malady; distemper. See Disease.

Dis*or"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disordered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disordering.] 1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.

Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence.

Burke.

The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin.

Jer. Taylor.

2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.

A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit.

Macaulay.

3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] Dryden.

Syn. -- To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.

Dis*or"dered (?), a. 1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

2. Disorderly. [Obs.] Shak.

-- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.

Dis*or"der*li*ness (?), n. The state of being disorderly.

Dis*or"der*ly (?), a. 1. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.

3. Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.

4. (Law) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.

Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious.

Dis*or"der*ly, adv. In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.

Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly.

2 Thess. iii. 6.

Savages fighting disorderly with stones.

Sir W. Raleigh.

Dis*or"di*nance (?), n. Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dis*or"di*nate (?), a. Inordinate; disorderly. [Obs.] "With disordinate gestures." Prynne.

Dis*or"di*nate*ly, adv. Inordinately. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Dis*or`di*na"tion (?), n. The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] Bacon.