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Disconnection

The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.

Disconsolate

Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.

Discontent

Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.

Discontentment

The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude.

Discontinuance

The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.

Discontinuation

Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

Discontinue

To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.

Discontinuee

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

Discontinuer

One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.

Discontinuor

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

Disconvenient

Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.

Discophora

A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.

Discord

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.

Discordable

That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant.

Discordant

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.

Discorporate

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.

Discount

A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.

Discountable

Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.

Discountenance

Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.

Discouragement

The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.

Discourse

To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

Discourser

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Discoursive

The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.

Discourteous

Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.

Discourtesy

Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

Discoverable

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

Discoverer

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.

Discovery

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

Discredit

To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.

discreditable

Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable.

discredited

being brought into disrepute; as, a discredited politician.

Discreet

Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.

Discrepancy Discrepance

The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.

Discretive

Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.

Discriminal

In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.

Discriminant

The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.

Discriminate

To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.

Discrimination

The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.

Discriminative

Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.

Disculpate

To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.

Discumbency

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.

Discumber

To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.

Discure

To discover; to reveal; to discoure.

Discurrent

Not current or free to circulate; not in use.

Discursion

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.

Discursive

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

Discursus

Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.

Discus

A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. The exercise with the discus.

Discuss

To break to pieces; to shatter.

discussant

a participant in a discussion, especially a member of a panel.

Discusser

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

Discussion

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

discussive

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter; discutient.

Discussive

A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.

Discutient

Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter.

Disdain

To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.

Disdainful

Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.

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