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Disleave (?), v. t. To deprive of leaves. [R.]
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The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.
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Dislike (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disliked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disliking.] 1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.
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Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.
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2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. “Disliking countenance.” Marston. “It dislikes me.” Shak.
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dislike, 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.
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God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin. Hammond.
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The hint malevolent, the look oblique,
The obvious satire, or implied dislike. Hannah More.
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We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox. J. Morley.
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His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. A. W. Ward.
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2. Discord; dissension. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Syn. -- Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; 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.
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dislikeful (?), a. Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.
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dislikelihood (?), n. The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
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Disliken (?), v. t. To make unlike; to disguise. [Obs.] Shak.
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Dislikeness, n. Unlikeness. [R.] Locke.
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Disliker (?), n. One who dislikes or disrelishes.
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Dislimb (?), v. t. To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Dislimn (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + limn.] To efface, as a picture. [Obs.] Shak.
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Dislink (?), v. t. To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.
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Dislive (?), v. t. To deprive of life. [Obs.]
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Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.
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Dislocate (?), 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 .] 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.
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After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward.
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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.
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Dislocate (?), a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.] Dislocated. Montgomery.
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dislocated adj. separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a dislocated knee.
Syn. -- disjointed, separated.
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Dislocation (?), n. [Cf. F. dislocation.] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.
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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.
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3. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
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Dislodge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dislodged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dislodging.] [OF. deslogier, F. déloger; pref. des- (L. dis-) + OF. logier, F. loger. See .] 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.
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2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.
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The Volscians are dislodg'd. Shak.
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Dislodge, v. i. To go from a place of rest. [R.]
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Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round
Lodge and dislodge by turns. Milton.
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Dislodge, n. Dwelling apart; separation. [R.]
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dislodgement n. 1. forced removal from a position of advantage.
Syn. -- dislodgment.
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2. dislodgment.
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Dislodgment (?), n. [Cf. F. délogement, OF. deslogement.] The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.
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Disloign (?), v. t. [OF. desloignier. See .] To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.]
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Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.
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Disloyal (?), a. [Pref. dis- + loyal: cf. OF. desloial, desleal, F. déloyal. See .] 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.
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Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.

Syn. -- Disobedient; faithless; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; dishonest; inconstant; disaffected.
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Disloyally, adv. In a disloyal manner.
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Disloyalty (?), n. [Pref. dis- + loyalty: cf. OF. desloiauté, deslealté, F. déloyauté.] Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
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Dismail (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + mail: cf. OF. desmaillier.] To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.
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Dismal (?), 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 .] 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]
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An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.
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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.
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Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith.
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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.
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Dismally, adv. In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
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Dismalness, n. The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
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Disman (?), v. t. To unman. [Obs.] Feltham.
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Dismantle (?), 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 .] 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
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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.
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A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay.
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3. To disable; to render useless. Comber.

Syn. -- To demo�sh; raze. See .
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Dismarch (?), v. i. To march away. [Obs.]
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Dismarry (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + marry: cf. OF. desmarier, F. démarier.] To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.
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Dismarshal (?), v. t. To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [R.] Drummond.
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Dismask (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + mask: cf. F. démasquer.] To divest of a mask. Shak.
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Dismast (?), 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.
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Dismastment (?), n. The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [R.] Marshall.
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Dismaw (?), v. t. To eject from the maw; to disgorge. [R.] Shelton.
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Dismay (?), 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 , 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.
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Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9.
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What words be these? What fears do you dismay? Fairfax.
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2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.]
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Do not dismay yourself for this. Spenser.

Syn. -- To terrify; fright; affright; frighten; appall; daunt; dishearthen; dispirit; discourage; deject; depress. -- To , , . 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.
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So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed,
The lions roaring through the midnight shade. Pope.
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Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul
No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control. Pope.
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Now the last ruin the whole host appalls;
Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls. Pope.
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Dismay, v. i. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. [Obs.] Shak.
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Dismay, n. [Cf. OF. esmai, F. émoi. See , v. t.] 1. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
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I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay. Macaulay.
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Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey,
And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. Mrs. Barbauld.
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2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser.

Syn. -- Dejection; discouragement; depression; fear; fright; terror; apprehension; alarm; affright.
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Dismayedness (?), n. A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.
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Dismayful (?), a. Terrifying. Spenser.
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Disme (?), n. [OF. See .] A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.
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Dismember (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismembered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismembering.] [OF. desmembrer, F. démembrer; pref. des- (L. dis) + OF. & F. membre limb. See .] 1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
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Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope.
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A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone.
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By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.
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2. To deprive of membership. [Obs.]
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They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North.

Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.
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Dismemberment (?), n. [Cf. OF. desmembrement, F. démembrement.] The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m�tilation; division; separation.
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The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.
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Dismettled (?), a. Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [R.] Llewellyn.
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Dismiss (?), 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 , and cf. .] 1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41.
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Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper.
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Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
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2. To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
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3. To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
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Dismiss, n. Dismission. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.
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Dismissal (?), n. Dismission; discharge.
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Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
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dismissible adj. subject to dismissal.
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Dismission (?), 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.
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2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.
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3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
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Dismissive (?), a. Giving dismission.
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Dismortgage (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismortaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismortgaging (?).] To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.
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Dismount (?), 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]
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But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.
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2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
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Dismount, v. t. 1. To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
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Dismounted from his authority. Barrow.
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2. To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
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3. (Mech.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.
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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.
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Disnaturalize (?), v. t. To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.
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Disnatured (?; 135), a. [Pref. dis- + nature: cf. OF. desnaturé, F. dénaturé.] Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.
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Disobedience (?), n. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
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He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.
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Disobediency (?), n. Disobedience.
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Disobedient (?), a. [Pref. dis- + obedient. See , .] 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.
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This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke.
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Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.
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2. Not yielding.
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Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. E. Darwin.
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Disobediently, adv. In a disobedient manner.
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Disobeisance (?), n. [F. désobéissance.] Disobedience. [Obs.] E. Hall.
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Disobeisant (?), a. [F. désobéissant.] Disobedient. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Disobey (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disobeyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disobeying.] [F. désobéir; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + obéir. See , and cf. .] 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.
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Not to disobey her lord's behest. Tennyson.
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Disobey, v. i. To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.
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He durst not know how to disobey. Sir P. Sidney.
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Disobeyer (?), n. One who disobeys.
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Disobligation (?), n. 1. The act of disobliging.
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2. A disobliging act; an offense. [Obs.] Clarendon.
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3. Release from obligation. Jer. Taylor.
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Disobligatory (?), a. Releasing from obligation. “Disobligatory power.” Charles I.
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Disoblige (?), 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.
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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.
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My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison.
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