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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.

Displant

To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

Displat

To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.

Display

An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.

Displayed

Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.

Disple

To discipline; to correct.

Displeasing

Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.

Displenish

To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.

Displode

To burst with a loud report; to explode.

Displume

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

Dispoline

One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.

Dispondee

A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

Disponee

The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.

Disponer

One who legally transfers property from himself to another.

Disponge

To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.

Dispope

To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom.

Disport

To divert or amuse; to make merry.

Disposable

Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.

disposable income

that portion of income which is available for spending on discretionary purchases; for individuals, it is usually calculated as total income less taxes. National disposable income, which is the disposable income of all individuals and businesses, is calculated as total national income minus taxes plus transfer payments.

Disposal

The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

Dispose

Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

Disposedness

The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.

Disposer

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.

Disposition

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

Dispositioned

Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned.

Dispositively

In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.

Dispossess

To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.

dispossessed

physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.

Dispossession

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

Dispost

To eject from a post; to displace.

Disposure

The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.

Dispraise

The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.

Disprison

To let loose from prison, to set at liberty.

Disprofess

To renounce the profession or pursuit of.

Disprofit

To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

Disproof

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

Disproperty

To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.

Disproportion

To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.

Disproportionable

Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.

Disproportional

Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

Disproportionally

In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.

Disproportionate

Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.

Dispropriate

To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

Disprove

To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

Dispurpose

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots.

Disputable

Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.

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