The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.
One who dispossesses.
To eject from a post; to displace.
The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.
Blamable.
The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.
One who blames or dispraises.
By way of dispraise.
To extend or expand itself.
One who spreads abroad.
To free from prejudice.
To render unprepared.
To make unlike a prince.
To let loose from prison, to set at liberty.
To deprive of a privilege or privileges.
To depreciate.
To renounce the profession or pursuit of.
To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
Unprofitable.
A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.
To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.
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.
The state of being disproportional.
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
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.
To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.
Capable of being disproved or refuted.
Act of disproving; disproof.
To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
One who disproves or confutes.
Not to provide; to fail to provide.
To expunge.
See Disponge.
Without penal restraint; not punishable.
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots.
To disfurnish; to strip.
Want of provisions; /ack of food.
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.
State of being disputable.
Proneness to dispute.
One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.
The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.
Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.
Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible.
One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.
Dispute; discussion.
The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.
rendered ineligible by law or rule or provision; as, disqualified from voting.
To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act.
To diminish the quantity of; to lessen.
To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.
The act of disquieting; a state of disquiet.
One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.
Producing inquietude or uneasiness.
Tending to disquiet.
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night.
State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment.
Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness.
Causing uneasiness.
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety.
A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation.
Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.
Disquisitory.
Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive.
To disarrange.
To degrade from rank.
To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.
To divest of reality; to make uncertain.
Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience.
The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight.
One who disregards.
Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
Negligently; heedlessly.
Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.
To fail to remember; to forget.
A state of being in bad condition, and needing repair.
The state of being disreputable.
Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane.
In a disreputable manner.
Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem.
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
To show disrespect to.
Lack of respectability.
Not respectable; disreputable.
One who disrespects.
Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior.
Showing lack of respect; disrespectful.
To treat irreverently or with disrespect.
To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.
One who, or that which, disrobes.
To unroof.
To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.
To put to rout.
To deprive of the rudder, as a ship.
In a disorderly manner.
Unruly; disorderly.
Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
To break asunder; to rend.
Not continuous in time or space. Opposite of continuous.
The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.
Disruption.
The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.
Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.
in a state of sulky dissatisfaction.
To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune.
To unseat.
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection.
Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.
The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
One who dissects; an anatomist.
To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.
A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.