We shall disburden the piece of those hard shadowings, which are always ungraceful. Dryden's Dufresnoy. They removed either by casualty and tempest, or by intention and design, either out of lucre of gold, or for the disburdening of the countries surcharged with multitudes of inhabitants. Hale's Origin of Mankind. Milton. Lucia, disburden all thy cares on me, And let me share thy most retired distress. Addison's Cato. These men being certainly jewels to a wise man, considering what wonders they were able to perform, yet were discarded by that unworthy prince, as not worthy the holding. Sidney. And laughter where it reigns unchecked. Discards and dissipates respect. Shenstone. Should we own that we have a very imperfect idea of substance, would it not be hard to charge us with discarding substance out of the world? Locke. Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is Addison's Guardian. To DISBURSE', v. a. Fr. debourser; dis and always therefore represented as blind. burse. To spend or lay out money. The queen's treasure, in so great occasions of disbursements, is not always so ready, nor so plentiful, as it can spare so great a sum together. Spenser's Ireland. DISC, in antiquity, a quoit made of stone, iron, or copper, five or six fingers broad, and above a foot long, somewhat of an oval figure. It was hurled like a bowl to a vast distance, by the help of a leathern thong, tied round the thrower's hand and put through a hole in the middle. According to Ovid, Met. 10, Apollo laid down his divinity, and abandoned the charge of his oracle at Delphi, to go to Sparta to play at the discus, where he mortally wounded his favorite Hyacinthus. Pausanias gives the invention of the game to Perseus, the son of Jupiter and Danae, who had the misfortune to kill his maternal grandfather Acrisius with his disc. The game of discus was in practice at the time of the Trojan war. The myrmidons of Achilles practised it, during their leader's inaction, on the sea-shore, while burning with ire against Agamemnon. Homer also records it as among the gymnastic sports given at the funereal obsequies of Patroclus, with an iron discus. DISC, in astronomy, the face of the sun and moon, as they appear to us on the earth; or the face of the earth as it appears to a spectator in the moon. Disc, in optics, the wideness of the aperture of a telescopic glass, whether plain, convex, concave, or of any other form. DISCAL CEATED, adj. the act of pulling off the shoes. Lat. discalceatus. "Twas said they saw but one; and no discerner Durst wag his tongue in censure. Id. Henry VIII. It discerneth of forces, frauds, crimes various of stellionate, and the inchoations towards crimes capital, not actually perpetrated. Bacon. Consider what doctrines are infused discernibly amongst Christians, most apt to obstruct or interrupt Hammond. the christian life. He was a great observer and discerner of men's natures and humours, and was very dexterous in compliance, where he found it useful. Clarendon. All this is easily discernible by the ordinary disSouth. courses of the understanding. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms, from such as will display themselves but in leaves, is no difficult matter.. Boyle. A reader that wants discernment, loves and admires the characters and actions of men in a wrong place. Freeholder. Safe in his power, whose eyes discern afar Το Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes. DISCERP', v. a. 7 Lat. discerpo. DISCERP'TIBLE, adj. S tear in pieces; to break; to destroy by separation of its parts. What is most dense, and least porous, will be most coherent and least discerptible. Glanville's Scepsis. Matter is moveable, this immoveable; matter disMore. cerptible, this indiscerptible. DISCHARGE', v. a., v., n., & n. s. Dis and DISCHARGER, N. S. charge, or Fr. descharger. To disburden, throw off, deliver from a load, a debt, crime, or obligation; hence to perform duty, as well as to dismiss from office, As a neuter verb, to exor employ; to emit. plode. As a substantive, discharge is emission, or explosion; matter emitted; disruption; dismission, or release, from duty or punishment. Performance of duty. There is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Eccles, viii. 8.They wanted not reasons to be discharged of all blame, who are confessed to have no great fault, even by their very word and testimony, in whose eyes no fault of ours hath ever hitherto been esteemed to be small. Hooker. To abate the bombilation of punpowder, a way is promised by Porta, by borax and butter, which he says If one man's fault could discharge another man of his duty, there would be no place left for the common offices of society. L'Estrange. When foreign trade imports more than our commodities will pay for, we contract debts beyond sea; and those are paid with money, when they will not take Locke. our goods to discharge them. As the heat of all springs is owing to subterraneous fire, so wherever there are any extraordinary discharges of this fire, there also are the neighbouring springs hotter than ordinary. Woodward. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a house from which to run away. In Britain what is many a lordly seat But a discharge in full for an estate? Young. We discharged a pistol, and had the sound returned upon us fifty-six times, though the air was foggy. Addison on Italy. Soon may kind heaven a sure relief provide; Soon may your sire discharge the vengeance due, And all your wrongs the proud oppressors rue. Pope's Odyssey. The matter being suppurated, I opened an inflamed tubercle in the great angle of the left eye, and discharged a well concocted matter. Wiseman's Surgery. The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous discharge. Sharp's Surgery. DISCINCT, adj. Lat. discinctus. Ungirded; loosely dressed. DISCIND', v. a. Lat. discindo. To divide; to cut in pieces. We found several concretions so soft, that we could easily discind them betwixt our fingers. Boyle. Fr. disciple; DISCIPLE, v. a. & n. s. Į DISCIPLESHIP. Span. and Port. discipulo; Lat. discipulus, from disciplina. One who submits himself to discipline as a scholar. See DISCIPLINE. Discipleship is the state of being a disciple. ten men. So that the disciplis weren named at Antioche cris- Into the service of the time, and was Shakspeare That to which justification is promised, is the giving of the whole soul intirely unto Christ, undertaking discipleship upon Christ's terms. up Hammond's Pract. Catech. He rebuked disciples who would call for fire from heaven upon whole cities, for the neglect of a few. King Charles. A young disciple should behave himself so well, as to gain the affection and the ear of his instructor Watis. Yea, a disciple, that would make the Founder Of your belief renounce it, could he see Such proselytes. Byron. DISCIPLE, in a more restrained sense, is the designation applied to those who were the immediate followers and attendants on Christ's person, of whom there were seventy or seventy-one. The terms disciple and apostle are often used synonymously in the gospel history; but sometimes the apostles are distinguished from disciples, as persons selected out of the number of disciples, to be the principal ministers of his religion of these there were only twelve. The Latins kept the festival of the seventy or seventy-two disciples on July 15th, and the Greeks on January 4th. DISCIPLINE, v. a. & n. s. Fr. disci pline; Lat. Span. Port. and It. disciplina, from disco, to learn, because discipline is necessary to teaching. To educate, instruct, with power to punish; to advance by instruction. As a substantive discipline is, instruction; rule; any thing taught; system of government; mortification; punishment. Disciplinable is, docile; capable of discipline. Disciplinarian, relating to, and as a substantive one zealous for, discipline. Disciplinary, pertaining to discipline. If ony vertue, if ony preisyng of discipline, thenke ghe these thingis, that also ghe han lerned. Wiclif. Filipensis 4. He had charge my discipline to frame, And tutors nouriture to oversee. Spenser. What eagerness in disciplinarian uncertainties, when the love of God and our neighbour, evangelical unquestionables, are neglected! Glan. Scepsis. The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. Rogers. They look to us, as we should judge of an army o well-disciplined soldiers at a distance. Derham's Astro-Theology. They were with care prepared and disciplined for confirmation, which they could not arrive at till they were found, upon examination, to have made a sufficient progress in the knowledge of Christianity. Addison on the Christian Religion. They draw those that dissent into dislike with the state, as puritans, or disciplinarians. Sanders. Par Eccl. Those canons in behalf of marriage were only disciplinary, grounded on prudential motives. Bp. Ferne. It is by the assistance of the eye, and the ear especially, which are called the senses of discipline, that our minds are furnished with various parts of knowledge. Watts. Couper. In colleges and halls in ancient days, When learning, virtue, piety, and truth, Were precious and inculcated with care, There dwelt a sage called Discipline. DISCIPLINE, ECCLESIASTICAL, consists in putting those laws in execution by which the church is governed, and inflicting the penalties enjoined by them against the several sorts of offenders. The primitive church never pretended to exercise discipline upon any but such as were within her pale in the largest sense, by some act of their own profession: and even upon these she never pretended to exercise her discipline so far as to cancel or disannul their baptism: all that she pretended to was, to deprive men of the benefits of external communion, such as public prayer, receiving the eucharist, and other acts of divine worship. The church discipline was confined to the admonition of the party, and to the lesser and greater excommunication. As to the objects of ecclesiastical discipline, they were all such delinquents as fell into great and scandalous crimes after baptism. Discipline, in a more peculiar sense, is used for the bodily punishments inflicted on a religious of the Romish church who has been found a delinquent; or even for that which the religious voluntarily undergo or inflict on themselves, by way of mortification. In DISCIPLINE, THE BOOK OF, in the history of the church of Scotland, is a common Order, drawn up by the assembly of ministers in 1650, for the reformation and uniformity to be observed this book the government of the church by prein the discipline and policy of the church. lates is set aside, kirk sessions are established, the observation of fast days and saints' days is condemned, and other regulations for the government of the church are determined. This book was approved by the privy council, and is called the First Book of Discipline. DISCLAIM', v. a. ? Dis and claim. Το DISCLAIMER, n. s. S disown; to deny any knowledge of; to retract any union with; to abrogate a disclaimer is both one that disclaims, disowns, or renounces, and a legal or other plea containing an express denial or refusal. You cowardly rascal! nature disclaims all share in thee: a taylor made thee. Shakspeare. King Lear. He calls the gods to witness their offence; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Tully assigns three motions, whereby, without any aiscommendation, a man might be drawn to become an accuser of others. Id. DISCOMMODE', v. a.` Fr. dis and commode. DISCOMMOD'IOUS, adj. To put to DISCOMMODITY, n. s. inconvenience; to molest; to incommode. The adjective and substantive follow this meaning. So many thousand soldiers, unfit for any labour, or other trade, must either seek service and employment abroad, which may be dangerous; or else employ themselves here at home, which may be discommodious. Spenser's State of Ireland. We speak now of usury, how the discommodities of it may be best avoided, and the commodities retained: or how, in the balance of commodities and discommodities, the qualities of usury are to be reconciled. Bacon. It is better that a ship should be preserved with some discommodity to the sailors, than that, the sailors being in health, the ship should perish. Hayward. DISCOMPOSE', v. a. Fr. décomposer. DISCOMPO'SURE, n. s. To disorder; to unsettle hence to offend; vex; irritate. Discomposure is the effect thus produced. Though he was a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, he never put down or discomposed a counsellor or near servant. Bacon. He threw himself upon his bed, lamenting with much passion, and with abundance of tears; and continued in this melancholick discomposure of mind Clarendon. many days. No more, dear mother: ill in death it shows, Your peace of mind by rage to discompose. Dryden. Men who possess all the advantages of life, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them. Swift. DISCONCERT', v. a. Dis and concert. To unsettle; discompose; disturb a scheme. a You need not provoke their spirits by outrages: careless gesture, a word, or a look, is enough to disconcert them. Collier. DISCONFORMITY, n. s. Dis and conormity. Want of agreement; inconsistency. Lyes arise from errour and mistake, or malice and forgery; they consist in the disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind, or the conceptions of the mind and the things themselves, or the speech and the things. Hakewill on Providence. DISCONGRU'ITY, n. s. Dis and congruity. Disagreement; inconsistency. There is want of capacity in the thing, to sustain such a duration, from the intrinsical discongruity of the one to the other. Hale's Origin of Mankind. DISCON'SOLATE, adj. ful; melancholy. Dis and console. Void of comfort; hopeless; sorrow The moon reflects the sunbeams to us, and so, by illuminating the air, takes away in some measure the disconsolate darkness of our winter nights. Ray. I am first affrighted and confounded with that forlorn solitude in which I am placed by my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who, not being able to unite and mingle in society, has been expelled all human commerce, and left utterly abandoned and disconsolate. Hume. On the Human Understanding. DISCONTENT', n. s. & adj. see. Uneasi ness; dissatisfaction with Discontentment is an old word, expressing the same meaning. These are the vices that fill them with general discontentment, as though the bosom of that famous church, wherein they live, were more noisome than any dun geon. Hooker. I see your brows full of discontent, Your hearts of sorrows, and your eyes of tears. Shakspeare. The politick and artificial nourishing and entertaining of hopes, and carrying men from hopes to hopes, is one of the best antidotes against the poison of discontentment. Bacon, The misery which is supposed to follow poverty, arises, not from want, but from peevishness and dis content. Burton. Pride is ever discontented, and still seeks matter of boasting in her own works. Bp. Hall. Contemplations. The rest were seized with sullen discontent, And a deaf murmur through the squadrons went. Dryden. These are, beyond comparison, the two greatest evils in this world; a diseased body, and a discontented mind. Tillotson, A beautiful bust of Alexander the Great casts up his face to heaven with a noble air of grief, or discontentedness, in his looks. Addison's Travels. As a man inebriated only by vapours, soon recovers in the open air; a nation discontented to madness, without any adequate cause, will return to its wits and allegiance, when a little pause has cooled it to reflec tion. DISCONTINUE, v. a. & v. n. DISCONTINUITY, n. s. Johnson, Fr. disScontinuer. To leave off; to cease; break off; interrupt: as a neuter verb, to lose cohesion, or any established right. Thyself shall discontinue from thine heritage that give thee, and I will cause thee to serve thine eneJer. mies. Twenty puny lies I'll tell, That men shall swear I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shakspeare. Examine thy customs of diet, sleep, exercise, apparel, and the like; and try, in any thou shalt judge hurtful, to discontinue it by little and little; but so, as if thou find any inconvenience by the change, thou Bacon. come back to it again. There is that property, in all letters, of aptness to be conjoined in syllables and words, through the voluble motions of the organs from one stop or figure to another, that they modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder's Elements of Speech. |