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Dismemberment

The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation.

Dismettled

Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit.

Dismission

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

Dismount

To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.

Disnaturalize

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.

Disnatured

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.

Disobedience

Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

Disobedient

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.

Disobey

To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.

Disoblige

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.

Disobliging

Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.

Disoccident

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude.

Disopinion

Want or difference of belief; disbelief.

Disorb

To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.

Disorder

To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.

Disordered

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

Disorderly

In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.

Disordination

The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion.

Disorganize

To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange.

Disorganizer

One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion.

Disorient

To turn away from the east; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.

Disorientate

To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth.

disoriented

having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.

disorienting

causing disorientation: causing confusion of directions.

Disown

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

disowned

having social connections repudiated.

disowning

the refusal to acknowledge (something or somebody) as one's own.

Dispansion

Act of dispanding, or state of being dispanded.

Disparage

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

Disparagement

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.

disparager

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

disparaging

expressing a low opinion of; same as derogatory; as, disparaging remarks about the new house.

Disparates

Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

Disparity

Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.

Dispark

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.

Dispart

To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

Dispassion

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

Dispassionate

Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.

Dispatch

The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

Dispatchful

Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks.

Dispathy

Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.

Dispauper

To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.

Dispeed

To send off with speed; to dispatch.

Dispel

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions.

Dispend

To spend; to lay out; to expend.

Dispender

One who dispends or expends; a steward.

Dispensary

A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.

Dispensation

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.

Dispensatory

A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacop/ia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

dispensed

distributed or weighed out in carefully determined portions; as, medicines dispensed to the sick.

Dispenser

One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.

Dispeople

To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.

Dispeopler

One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.

Dispersal

The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.

Disperse

To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.

Dispersion

The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.

Dispirit

To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.

dispirited

Depressed in spirits; deprived of cheer or enthusiasm; disheartened; discouraged; daunted.

dispiriting

causing dejection; discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.

Dispiteous

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.

Displace

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

Displacement

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

Displacency

Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike.

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