but dashes, and even dispirits, all their endeavours, and makes their designs heartless and ineffectual. South. Steady to my principles, and not dispirited with my afflictions, I have overcome all difficulties. Dryden. Amidst all the honours that are paid him, he feels nothing in himself but a poor, weak, dispirited mortal, yielding to the laws of corruption. Rogers.

He has dispirited himself by a debauch, and drank away his good humour. Collier.

I cannot bring myself to believe that the King was either the first projector or the principal actor in the sorry farce of neglecting a man whom they could not dishonour, of distressing a man whom they could not dispirit, which has been playing at Court for near twenty-six years. Bp. Watson.

DISPITEOUS, adj. Dis and piteous. Un

pitying.

One then may be displaced, and one may reign; And want of merit render birthright vain. Dryden.

A religion, established by God himself, should not be displaced by any thing, under a demonstration of that divine power that first introduced it. South. Whose arch or pillar meets me in the face, Titus or Trajan's? No-'tis that of Time: Triumph, arch, pillar, all he doth displace Scoffing; and apostolic statues climb

To crush the imperial urn, whose ashes slept sublime. Byron. DISPLACENCY, n. s. Lat. displicentia Incivility; any thing unpleasing.

The displacencies that he receives, by the consequences of his excess, far outweigh all that is grateful in it. Decay of Piety.

DISPLANT', v.a. 1 Dis and plant. To DISPLANTATION, n.s. remove a plant; hence to drive a people from their place of residence. All those countries, which, lying near unto any mountains, or Irish desarts, had been planted with English, were shortly displanted and lost. Spenser.

I may justly account new plantations to be the children of former kingdoms: I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not displanted.

The works of nature, and the words of revelation, display truth to mankind in characters so visible, that those who are not quite blind, may read. Locke.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes. and to excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to display his perfections. South. He carves, displays, and cuts up to a wonder. Spectator.

So the gay lady, witn expensive care, Borrows the pride of land, of sea and air; Furs, pearls, and plumes, the glittering thing displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays.

Gay.

The storm the dark Lycæan groves displayed, And first to light exposed the sacred shade.

Pope's Statius. DISPLEA'SANCE, n. s. Dis and please. DISPLEASE, v. a. & n. s. To offend; make DISPLEA'SING, n. s. angry or sad: DISPLEA'SINGNESS, n. s. as a neuter verb, DISPLEA'SURE, v. a. & n. s. to disgust; make averse. Displeasingness is the quality of giving offence; displeasure the offence given.

God was displeased with this thing.

1 Chron. xxi. 7. Cordell said, she loved him as béhoved : Whose simple answer, wanting colours fair To paint it forth, him to displeasance moved. Faerie Queene.

True repentance may be wrought in the hearts of such as fear God, and yet incur his displeasure, the deserved effect whereof is eternal death. Hooker. man's heavy displeasure against him. He should beware that he did not provoke Soly. Knolles.

Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust. Shakspeare. When the way of pleasuring or displeasuring lieth by the favourite, it is impossible any other should be over great. Bacon.

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure.

Milton.

The Edenites were garrisoned to resist the Assyrians, whose displantation Senacherib vaunted of.

Raleigh. DISPLAY', v. a. & n. s. Fr. déployer, from Lat. dis (privative) and plico, to fold. To unfold; to exhibit, spread open to view.

His glistring armor made

A little gloomy light, much like a shade, By which he saw the ugly monster plaine, Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide. Spenser. Faerie Queene. Yon speak not like yourself, whoever yet Have stood to charity, and displayed the effects Of disposition gentle. Shakspeare.

Our enobled understandings take the wings of the morning to visit the world above us, and have a gloVOL. VII.

DISPLODE', v. a. Į DISPLO'SION, n. s. S

Addison's Freeholder. Lat. displodo. To disperse with a loud noise; to vent with violence: a sudden bursting forth. Stood ranked of seraphim another row, In posture to displode their second tire

Of thunde

Milton.

DISPORT', v. n. & n. s. Dis and sport. To play; sport: pastime; diversion; amusement. She list not hear, but her disports pursued; And ever bade him stay, till time the tide renewed. Spenser.

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But if thee list unto the court to throng, And there to haunt after the hoped prey, Then must thou thee dispose another way.

Spenser.

Hubberd's Tale. Touching musical harmony, whether by instrument or voice, it being of high and low, in due proportionable disposition, such notwithstanding is the force thereof, and so very pleasing effects it hath, in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think, that the soul itself by nature is, or hath in it, harmony.

As she is mine, I may dispose of her:
Which shall be either to this gentleman,
Or to her death.

Hooker.

Shakspeare.

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their disposer. Boyle.

Would I had been disposer of thy stars, Thou shouldst have had thy wish, and died in wars. Dryden.

Of all your goodness leaves to our dispose, Our liberty's the only gift we chuse.

Id. Indian Emperor. Under this head of invention is placed the disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. Id. Dufresnoy, Preface.

Disposition is when the power and ability of doing any thing is forward, and ready upon every occasion to break into action. Id.

All the reason of mankind cannot suggest any solid ground of satisfaction, but in making that God our friend, who is the absolute disposer of all things. South

Although the frequency of prayer and fasting may be of no efficacy to dispose God to be more gracious, yet it is of great use to dispose us to be more objects of his grace. Smalridge.

They require more water than can be found, and more than can be disposed of, if it was found. Burnet. Of what you gathered, as most your own, you have disposed much in works of public piety.

Spratt.

Thus, whilst she did her various power dispose, The world was free from tyrants, wars, and woes.

Prior.

I have disposed of her to a man of business, who will let her see, that to be well dressed, in good

The love we bear to our friends is generally caused by our finding the same disposition in them which we feel in ourselves. Pope. Bleeding is to be used or omitted according to the symptoms which affect the brain; it relieves in any inflammatory disposition of the coat of the nerve. Arbuthnot on Diet.

There is a sort of masonry in poetry, wherein the pause represents the joints of a building, which ought in every line and course to have their disposition varied. Shenstone.

Under his fatherly rebukes then let us be ever humble and submissive. Such now is the true filial disposition. Mason.

DISPOSSE'SS, v. a. Dis and possess. To put out of possession; to deprive; to disseize. The children went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

Numbers xxxii. 39. The blow from saddle forced him to fly; Else might it needs down to his manly breast Have cleft his head in twain, and life thence dispossest. Spenser. Faerie Queene.

Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise.

Denham. Looks fright not men: the general has seen Moors With as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertran's. Dryden. The criticks, while they like my wares, may dispraise my writing. Spectator.

My faults will not be hid, and can be no dispraise to me that they will not; the clearness of one's mind is never better proved than in discovering its own faults. Pope.

. DISPREAD', v. a. Į Dis and spread. To DISPREAD'ER. S spread different ways. in this word, and a few others, says Johnson truly, dis has the same force as in Latin composition, and means different ways.

As morning sun her beams dispreaden clear, And in her face fair truth and mercy doth appear Spenser.

Over him art, striving to compare With nature, did an arbour green dispread, Framed of wanton ivy, flowing fair, Through which the fragrant eglantine did spread His pricking arms, entrailed with roses red. Above, below, around, with art dispread, The sure enclosure folds the genial bed.

DISPROFIT, n. s. damage; detriment.

DISPRO’OF, n. s.

Id.

Pope's Odyssey. Dis and profit. Loss;

Dis and proof. Confu

tation; conviction of error or falsehood.

His remark contains the grounds of his doctrine, and offers at somewhat towards the disproof of mine. Atterbury.

Dis and property.

I need not offer any thing farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers. DISPROPERTY, v. a. To dispossess of any property. DISPROPORTION, v. a. & n. s. DISPROPORTIONABLE, adj.

DISPROPORTIONABLENESS, n. s.

My thoughts of that expected happiness.

Denham.

DISPROPORTIONABLY, adv.

DISPROPORTIONAL, adj.

DISPROPORTIONALLY, adv.

O fairest of all creatures, last and best
Of what heaven made, how art thou dispossessed
Of all thy native glories!

Dryden. State of Innocence.

Nothing can create more trouble to a man than to endeavour to dispossess him of this conceit. Tillotson.

It will be found a work of no small difficulty to dispossess and throw out a vice from that heart, where long possession begins to plead prescription. South.

DISPROPORTIONATE, adj. DISPROPORTIONATELY, adv.. DISPROPORTIONATENESS, n. s.

Dis and

proportion. To apportion, >or join unfitly, or without symmetry: dispropor

tionable is unsuitable in the parts, or in comparison disproportional and disproportionate seem to express the same idea, and the adverbs follow these adjectives in their meaning.

Distance and men's fears have so enlarged the truth, and so disproportioned every thing, that we have made the little troop of discontents a gallant army, and already measured by the evening shadow. Suckling.

There is no wine of so strong a body as to bear such a disproportionable quantity of water as sixty. Broome.

That we are designed for a more exalted happiness than can be derived from the things of this life, we may infer from their vast disproportion to the desires and capacities of our soul. Rogers. DI'SPROVE, v. a. ¿ Dis and prove. To DISPROVER, n. s. confute; to convict of error or falsehood. A disprover, as well as expressing this sense, seems corruptly used by Wotton for disapprover.

This exposition they plainly disprove, and shew by manifest reason, that of David the words of David could not possibly be meant.

This Westmoreland maintains,
And Warwick shall disprove it.

Hooker.

Shakspeare.

Proves and disproves, affirms and then denies Objects himself, and to himself replies.

Churchill.

DISPUNISHABLE, adj. Dis and punishable. Without penal restraint.

No leases of any part of the said lands shall ever be made, other than leases for years not exceeding thirty-one in possession, and not in reversion or remainder, and not dispunishable of waste.

Swift's Last Will. DISPURGE', v. a. Dis and purge; dis being used expletively. To cleanse or purge.

Thou, then, that hast dispurged our score,
And dying wert the death of death,
Be now, whilst on thy name we call,
Our life, our strength, our joy, our all!

to disburse.

Wotton.

DISPURSE, v. a. Dis and purse. Το pay; 'It is not certain that the following passage should not be written disburse,' says Johnson.

Many a pound of my own proper store,
Because I would not tax the needy commons,
Have I dispursed to the garrisons,
And never asked for restitution.

from dis (diversely) and puto, to think. To contend for; discuss: as a neuter verb, to debate; argue; controvert: as a noun, contest; controversy; quarrel. Disputable means both liable to be contested, and fond of disputation. Disto this last. Disputer and disputant are synonyputatious and disputative have a similar sense mous; and disputeless means incontrovertible.

Things were disputed before they came to be determined: men afterwards were not to dispute any Hooker. longer, but to obey.

Dispute it like a man. I shall do so;

But I must also feel it as a man.

Well do I find, by the wise knitting together of your answer, that any disputation I can use is as much too weak as I unworthy. Sidney,

So dispute the prize, As if you fought before Cydaria's eyes. Dryden's Indian Emperor. The question being about a fact, it is begging it, to bring as a proof an hypothesis which is the very thing in dispute.

Locke.

Notwithstanding these learned disputants, it was to the unscholastick statesman that the world owed their Id. peace, defence and liberties.

If they are not in themselves discutable, why are they so much disputed? South

The earth is now placed so conveniently, that plants thrive and flourish in it, and animals live; this is matter of fact, and beyond all dispute. Bentley.

Did not Paul and Barnabas dispute with vehemence about a very little point of conveniency? Atterbury. These conclusions have generally obtained, and have been acknowledged even by disputers themselves, till with labour they had stifled their convictions.

Rogers. Perhaps this practice might not so easily be perverted, as to raise a cavilling disputative, and sceptical temper in the minds of youth.

Watts's Improvement of the Mind. There is nothing displays a genius (I mean a quickness of genius) more than a dispute; as two diamonds encountering, contribute to each other's lustre. But, perhaps, the odds is much against the man of taste, in this particular. Shenstone.

As to the capacity of sitting in parliament, after all the capacities for voting, for the army, for the navy, for the professions, for civil officers, are conceded, it is a dispute de lana caprina, in my poor opinion, at least on the part of those who oppose it. Burke.

She breathes! But no, twas nothing, or the last. Faint flutter life disputes with death. Byron DISQUALIFY, v. a. ? Dis and qualify. DISQUALIFICATION, n. s. To make unfit; to disable by a natural or legal impediment.

Such persons as shall confer benefices on unworthy and disqualified persons, after a notice or correction given, shall for that turn be deprived of the power of presenting unto such benefices. Ayliffe's Parergon.

I know no employment for which piety disqualifies. Swift. My common illness utterly disqualifics me for all conversation; I mean my deafness.

Id.

The church of England is the only body of Christians which disqualifies those, who are employed to preach its doctrine, from sharing in the civil power, farther than as senators. Id. on the Sacramental Test.

It is recorded as a sufficient disqualification of a wife, that, speaking of her husband, she said, God forgive him. Spectator.

The power of a member of parliament is uncertain and indirect; and if power rather than splendor and fame were the object, I should think that any of the principal clerks in office, (to say nothing of their superiors) several of whom are disqualified by law for seats in parliament, possess far more power than nine-tenths of the members of the House of Commons.

DISQUANTITY, v. a.

Burke.

Dis and quantity.

To lessen; to diminish. Not used.

Be entreated

Of fifty to disquantity your train;
And the remainders, that shall still depend,

To be such men as may besort your age. Shakspeare.

DISQUIETNESS, n. s.

DISQUI'ETUDE.

make

easy; harass;

fret. The substantives are synonymous. Why art thou so vexed, O my soul? and why art thou so disquieted within me. Psalm.

All otherwise, said he, I riches rede, And deem them root of all disquietness.

Faerie Queene. Arius won to himself both followers and great defenders; whereupon mach disquietness ensued.

I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet; The meat was well if you were so content.

Hooker.

Shakspeare. Treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves. Id. King Lear.

If we give way to our passions, we do but gratify ourselves for the present, in order to our future disquiet. Tillotson.

Thou happy creature, art secure
From all the torments we endure;
Despair, ambition, jealousy,

Lost friends, nor love, disquiets thee.

The royal society had a good effect, as it turned many of the greatest geniuses of that age to the disquisitions of natural knowledge. Addison's Spectator. 'Tis indeed the proper place for this disquisition concerning the antediluvian earth.

Woodward's Natural History.

The nature of animal diet may be discovered by taste, and other sensible qualities, and some general rules, without particular disquisition upon every kind. Arbuthnot.

I am apprehensive that I shall not be able to find leisure for making all the disquisitions and experiments which would be desirable on this subject. [Swimming.] I must, therefore, content myself with a few remarks. Franklin.

DISRA'NK, a. a. Dis and rank. To degrade from his rank

DISREGARD, v. a. & n. s.
DISREGA RDFUL, adj.
DISREGA RDFully, adv.

tice or neglect; contempt.

Dis and re

To treat

gard. with slight no

Since we are to do good to the poor, to strangers, to enemies, those whom nature is too apt to make us