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Dissidence

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.

Dissident

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.

Dissilient

Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

Dissimilar

Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

Dissimilarity

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.

Dissimile

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

dissimulating

concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.

dissimulation

The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

Dissipable

Capable of being scattered or dissipated.

dissipate

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

Dissipate

To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

Dissipation

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

Dissipativity

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

Dissociable

Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.

Dissocial

Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

dissociate

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

Dissociation

The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.

Dissolubility

The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

Dissoluble

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

Dissoluteness

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.

Dissolution

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

Dissolvable

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble.

Dissolve

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

dissolved

changed from a solid to a liquid state by increase of temperature; melted. Opposite of unmelted.

dissolvent

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

Dissolvent

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent.

Dissolver

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

Dissonance

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

Dissonant

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

Dissuade

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

Dissuasion

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.

Dissuasive

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation.

Dissyllabic

Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry.

Dissympathy

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.

Distad

Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

Distaff

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

Distain

To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Distal

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.

Distance

To place at a distance or remotely.

Distant

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.

Distantly

At a distance; remotely; with reserve.

Distaste

To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.

Distasteful

Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.

Distasteive

Tending to excite distaste. That which excites distaste or aversion.

Distasture

Something which excites distaste or disgust.

Distemper

An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.

Distemperature

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air.

Distend

To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

Distensive

Distending, or capable of being distended.

Distention

The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.

Dister

To banish or drive from a country.

Disthene

Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

Distich

A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

Distill

To let fall or send down in drops.

Distillable

Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

Distillate

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.

Distillation

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

Distillatory

Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. A distillatory apparatus; a still.

Distiller

One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.

Distillery

The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.

Distillment

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.

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