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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.

Disdeify

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.

Disdiaclast

One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.

Disdiapason

An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason. Compare diapason{1}.

Disease

To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.

Diseasedness

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.

Disedge

To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.

Diselder

To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder.

Diselenide

A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.

Disembark

To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.

Disembarrass

To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.

Disembodied

Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.

Disembodiment

The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.

Disembody

To divest of the body or corporeal existence.

Disembogue

To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.

Disembowel

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

Disembowelment

The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

Disembroil

To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.

Disemployment

The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.

Disempower

To deprive of power; to divest of strength.

Disenchant

To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.

disenchanting

freeing from illusion, credulity, overoptimism, or false belief.

Disenchantment

The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted.

Disencharm

To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.

Disencumber

To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.

Disencumbrance

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome.

Disendow

To deprive of an endowment, as a church.

Disendowment

The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

disenfranchised

deprived of the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote. Opposite of enfranchised.

Disengage

To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.

Disengaged

Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.

Disengagement

The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.

Disennoble

To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.

Disenslave

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.

disentangle

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.

disentangled

freed from an entanglement; -- of people or agents.

Disenthrall

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall.

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