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Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.
Shak.
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Disembark (?), v. i. To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
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And, making fast their moorings, disembarked.
Cowper.
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Disembarkation (?), n. The act of disembarking.
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Disembarkment (?), n. Disembarkation. [R.]
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Disembarrass (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembarrassed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembarrassing.] [Pref. dis- + embarrass: cf. F. désembarasser.] To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.
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To disembarrass himself of his companion.
Sir W. Scott.
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Disembarrassment (?), n. Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
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Disembay (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembaying.] [Pref. dis- + embay.] To clear from a bay. Sherburne.
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Disembellish (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + embellish: cf. F. désembellir.] To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.
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Disembitter (?), v. t. To free from
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Disembodied (?), a. Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
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The disembodied spirits of the dead.
Bryant.
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Disembodiment (?), n. The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
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Disembody (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembodying.] 1. To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
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Devils embodied and disembodied.
Sir W. Scott.
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2. (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. Wilhelm.
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Disembogue (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembogued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disemboguing.] [Sp. desembocar; pref. des- (L. dis-) + embocar to put into the mouth, fr. en (L. in) + boca mouth, fr. L. bucca cheek. Cf. , .] 1. To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.
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Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves,
And through nine channels disembogues his waves.
Addison.
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2. To eject; to cast forth. [R.] Swift.
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Disembogue, v. i. To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.
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Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue.
Young.
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Disemboguement (?), n. The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.
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Disembossom (?), v. t. To separate from the bosom. [R.] Young.
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Disembowel (dĭsĕmbouĕl), v. t. [See .] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
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Soon after their death, they are disemboweled.
Cook.
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Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold.
Thomson.
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2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] “Her disemboweled web.” J. Philips.
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Disembowelment (?), n. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
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Disembowered (?), a. Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.
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Disembrangle (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + em = en (L. in) + brangle.] To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.
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Disembroil (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembroiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembroiling.] [Pref. dis- + embroil.] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
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Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time.
Addison.
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Disemploy (?), v. t. To throw out of employment. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
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Disemployment (?), n. The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.
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This glut of leisure and disemployment.
Jer. Taylor.
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Disempower (?), v. t. To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
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Disenable (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + enable.] To disable; to disqualify.
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The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak.
State Trials (1640).
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Disenamor (?), v. t. To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.
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Disenchained (?), a. Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.
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Disenchant (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disenchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disenchanting.] [Pref. dis- + enchant: cf. F. désenchanter.] 1. To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.
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Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two
Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.
Dryden.
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2. to free (a person) from fascination or delusion; to destroy the false hopes or overoptimistic expectations of (a person); to disillusion; -- used with people or events as the agent (subject); as, the candidate was disenchanted by the low turnout at the rally.
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Disenchanter (?), n. One who, or that which, disenchants.
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disenchanting adj. freeing from illusion, credulity, overoptimism, or false belief.
Syn. -- disillusioning.
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Disenchantment (?), n. [Pref. dis- + enchantment: cf. F. désenchantement.] The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.
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Disencharm (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + en (L. in) + charm.] To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
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Disenclose (?), v. t. See .
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Disencouragement (?), n. Discouragement. [Obs.] Spectator.
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Disencrese (?), v. i. [Pref. dis- + OE. encrese, E. increase.] To decrease. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Disencrese, n. Decrease. [Obs.]
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Disencumber (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disencumbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disencumbering.] [Pref. dis- + encumber: cf. F. désencombrer.] To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen.
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I have disencumbered myself from rhyme.
Dryden.
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Disencumbrance (?), n. Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.
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Disendow (?), v. t. To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.
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Disendowment (?), n. The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
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[The] disendowment of the Irish Church.
G. B. Smith.
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Disenfranchise (?), v. t. To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Disenfranchisement (#), n.
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disenfranchised adj. deprived of the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote. Opposite of enfranchised.
Syn. -- disfranchised, voteless.
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Disengage (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disengaged (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Disengaging.] [Pref. dis- + engage: cf. F. désengager.] To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.
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To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed.
Milton.
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Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process.
Transl. of Lavoisier.
Syn. -- To liberate; free; loose; extricate; clear; disentangle; detach; withdraw; wean.
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Disengage, v. i. To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.
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From a friends's grave how soon we disengage!
Young.
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Disengaged (?), a. Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Disengagedness (#), n.
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Disengagement (?), n. [Pref. dis- + engagement: cf. F. désengagement.] 1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.
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It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses.
Transl. of Lavoisier.
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A disengagement from earthly trammels.
Sir W. Jones.
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2. Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.
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Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment.
Bp. Butler.
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Disengaging (?), a. Loosing; setting free; detaching.
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Coloq. Disengaging machinery . See under .
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Disennoble (?), v. t. To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
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An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man.
Guardian.
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Disenroll (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Disenrolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disenrolling.] To erase from a roll or list. [Written also disenrol.] Donne.
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Disensanity (?), n. [Pref. dis- + en (L. in) + sanity.] Insanity; folly. [Obs.]
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What tediosity and disensanity
Is here among!
Beau. & Fl.
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Disenshrouded (?), a. Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.
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The disenshrouded statue.
R. Browning.
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Disenslave (?), v. t. To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.
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He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.
South.
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Disentail (?), v. t. (Law) To free from entailment.
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disentangle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disentangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disentangling (?).] 1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
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2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
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To disentangle truth from error.
Stewart.
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To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.
Clarendon.
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A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Syn. -- To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear; evolve; disengage; separate; detach.
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disentangled adj. 1. freed from an entanglement; -- of people or agents.
Syn. -- extricated, freed.
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2. straightened out.
Syn. -- loosened, unsnarled.
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Disentanglement (?), n. The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.
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Disenter (?), v. t. See .
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Disenthrall (?), v. t. [See .] To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.
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Disenthrallment (?), n. Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]
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Disenthrone (?), v. t. To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.
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Disentitle (?), v. t. To deprive of title or claim.
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Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father.
South.
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Disentomb (?), v. t. To take out from a tomb; a disinter.
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Disentrail (?), v. t. To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.]
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As if he thought her soul to disentrail.
Spenser.
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Disentrance (?), v. t. To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.
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Disentwine (?), v. t. To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.
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Disepalous (?), a. [Pref. di- + sepalous.] (Bot.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled.
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Disert (?), a. [L. disertus, for dissertus, p. p.: cf. F. disert. See .] Eloquent. [Obs.]
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Disertitude (?), n. [L. disertitud�.] Eloquence. [Obs.]
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Diserty (?), adv. Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [Obs.] Holland.
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Disespouse (?), v. t. To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.
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Disestablish (?), v. t. To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.
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Disestablishment (?), n. 1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.
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2. The condition of being disestablished.
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disestablishmentarianism (?), n. The doctrine or political position that advocates abrogating the establishment of a church as the official state religion..
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Prior to the Puritans, very few earlier believers contended for any form of disestablishmentarianism.
David. W. Hall (Savior or Servant? Putting Government in Its Place: The Covenant Foundation, 1996)
Disesteem (?), n. Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.
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Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs.
Milton.
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Disesteem, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disesteemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disesteeming.] 1. To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.
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But if this sacred gift you disesteem.
Denham.
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Qualities which society does not disesteem.
Ld. Lytton.
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2. To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor. [Obs.]
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What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed,
Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed?
B. Jonson.
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Disesteemer (?), n. One who disesteems. Boyle.
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Disestimation (?), n. Disesteem.
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Disexercise (?), v. t. To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.]
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By disexercising and blunting our abilities.
Milton.
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Disfame (?), n. Disrepute. [R.] Tennyson.
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Disfancy (?), v. t. To dislike. [Obs.]
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Disfashion (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + fashion. See , and cf. .] To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
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Disfavor (?), n. [Pref. dis- + favor: cf. OF. disfaveur, F. défaveur.] [Written also disfavour.] 1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.
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The people that deserved my disfavor.
Is. x. 6 (1551).
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Sentiment of disfavor against its ally.
Gladstone.
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2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.
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3. An unkindness; a disobliging act.
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He might dispense favors and disfavors.
Clarendon.
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Disfavor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfavored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disfavoring.] 1. To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
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Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey.
Swift.
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2. To injure the form or looks of. [R.] B. Jonson.
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Disfavorable (?), a. [Cf. F. défavorable.] Unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.
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Disfavorably, adv. Unpropitiously. [Obs.]
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Disfavorer (?), n. One who disfavors. Bacon.
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Disfeature (?; 135), v. t. [Cf. .] To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]
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Disfellowship (?), v. t. [See , v. t.] To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.
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An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer.
Freewill Bapt. Quart.
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Disfiguration (?), n. [See , and cf. .] The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.
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Disfigure (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfigured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disfiguring.] [OF. desfigurer, F. défigurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See , and cf. .] To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
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Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own.
Milton.
Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure.
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Disfigure, n. Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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disfigured adj. having the appearance spoiled; as, a disfigured face; strip mining left a disfigured landscape.
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Disfigurement (?), n. 1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.
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2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
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Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse.
Hume.
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Disfigurer (?), n. One who disfigures.
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Disflesh (?), v. t. To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [Obs.] Shelton.
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Disforest (?), v. t. 1. To disafforest. Fuller.
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2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees.
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Disforestation (?), n. The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.
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Disformity (?), n. [Cf. .] Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form.
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Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies.
S. Clarke.
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Disfranchise (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfranchised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disfranchising.] [Cf. .] To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.
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Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised.
Fabyan (1509).
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He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs.
Thirlwall.
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disfranchised adj. deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote. Opposite of enfranchised.
Syn. -- disenfranchised, voteless.
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Disfranchisement (?), n. The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
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Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony.
Palfrey.
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