Bread or tobacco may be neglected, where they are shewn not to be useful to health, because of an inLocke. differency or disrelish to them.

The same anxiety and solicitude that embittered the pursuit, disrelishes the fruition itself.

Rogers.

The world is become too busy for me: every body is so concerned for the publick, that all private enjoyments are lost, or disrelished. Pope.

DISREPUTE, n. s. ? Dis and reputation. DISREPUTATION, n. s. S Disgrace; dishonor; want of reputation.

I will tell you what was the course in the happy days of queen Elizabeth, whom it is no disreputation to follow. Bacon.

The king fearing lest that the bad success might discourage his people, and bring disreputation to himself, forbad any report to be made.

Hayward.

Gluttony is not of so great disreputation amongst men as drunkenness. Taylor's Holy Living. How studiously did they cast a slur upon the king's person, and bring his governing principles under a disrepute. South.

DISRESPECT', n. s.
DISRESPECTFUL, adj.
DISRESPECT FULLY, adv.

ence; rudeness.

Dis and respect. Incivility; want of reverence; irrever

The advantages of life will not hold out to the length of desire; and, since they are not big enough to satisfy, they should not be big enough to dissatisfy. Collier.

If we see a universal spirit of distrust and dissatisfaction, a rapid decay of trade, dissensions in all parts of the empire, we may pronounce, without hesitation, that the government of that country is weak, distracted, and corrupt. Junias.

DISSECT', v. a. DISSECTION, n. s. DISSECTOR, n. s.

Fr. disséquer; Lat. dis secare, from dis and seco, Sto carve or cut. To divide

an animal body into its parts: applied also figuratively.

Let no man say, the world itself being dead, 'Tis labour lost to have discovered

The world's infirmities, since there is none Alive to study this dissection. Donne. She cut her up; but, upon the dissection, found her just like other hens. L'Estrange.

No mask, no trick, no favour, no reserve; Dissect your mind, examine every nerve. Roscommon.

Critics to plays for the same end resort, That surgeons wait on trials in a court: For innocence condemned they've no respect, Provided they've a body to dissect. Congreve. Such strict enquiries into nature so true and so perfect a dissection of human kiud, is the work of exGranville. traordinary diligence.

DISSEISE', v. a. From Fr. dessaisi, i. e. action; de saisir an action concerning seizing. To dispossess; deprive of legal right. See the following articles on DISSEISIN and DISSEISOR.

He so disseized of his griping gross,
The knight his thrillant spear again assayed,
In his brass-plated body to emboss.

Faerie Queene. If a prince should give a man, besides his ancient patrimony which his family had been disseized of, an additional estate, never before in the possession of his ancestors, he could not be said to re-establish lineal

succession.

Locke.

DISSEISIN, in law, an unlawful dispossessing a man of his land, tenement, or other immoveable and incorporeal right. It is a species of injury by ouster, or a privation of the freehold, consisting in a wrongful putting out of him that is seised of the freehold. It differs from abatement and intrusion, which denote a wrongful entry where the possession was vacart, by its being an attack upon him who is in actual possession, and turning him out of it. The former were an ouster from a freehold in law, this is an ouster from a freehold in deed. Disseisin may be effected either in corporeal inheritances, or incorporeal. Disseisin of things corporeal, as of houses, lands, &c., must be by entry and actual dispossession of the freehold (Co. Litt. § 181); as if a man enters either by force or fraud into the house of another, and turns, or at least keeps, him or his servants out of possession. Disseisin of incorporeal hereditaments cannot be an actual dispossession; for the subject itself is neither capable of actual bodily possession, nor dispossession; but it depends on their respective natures and various kinds; being, in general, nothing more than a disturbance of the owner in the means of coming at, or enjoying them. With regard to freehold rent in particular, our ancient law-books (Finch. L. 165, 166. Litt. § 237, &c.) mention five methods of working a disseisin thereof:-1. By enclosure; where the tenant so encloseth the house or land, that the lord cannot come to distrain thereon, or demand it. 2. By forestaller, or lying in wait; when the tenant besetteth the way with force and arms, or by menaces of bodily hurt, affrights the lessor from coming. 3. By rescous; that is, either by violently retaking a distress taken, or by preventing the lord, with force and arms, from taking any at all. 4. By replevin; when the tenant replevies the distress at such time when his rent is really due. 5. By denial; which is, when the rent being lawfully demanded, is not paid. All, or any of these circumstances amount to a disseisin of rent; that is, they wrongfully put the owner out of the only possession, of which the subject matter is capa

ble, namely, the receipt of it. But all these disseisins of hereditaments incorporeal, are only so at the election and choice of the party injured; if, for the sake of more easily trying the right he is pleased to suppose himself disseised. (Litt. § 588, 589.) Otherwise, as there can be no actual dispossession, he cannot be compulsively disseised of any incorporeal hereditament. Thus also, even in corporeal hereditaments, a man may frequently suppose himself to be disseised, when he is not so in fact, for the sake of entitling himself to the more easy and commodious remedy of an assise of novel disseisin, instead of being driven to the more tedious process of a writ of entry. (4 Burr. 110.)

The true injury of compulsive disseisin seems to be that of dispossessing the tenant, and substituting one's self to be the tenant of the land in his stead; in order to which, in the times of. pure feodal tenure, the consent or connivance of the lord, who, upon every descent or alienation, personally gave, and who, therefore, alone could change the seisin or investiture, seems to have been considered as necessary. But when, in process of time, the feodal form of alienations was off, and the lord was no longer the instrument of giving actual seisin, it is probable that the lord's acceptance of rent or service, from him who had dispossessed another, might constitute a complete disseisin. Afterwards, no regard was had to the lord's concurrence, but the dispossesser himself was considered as the sole disseisor; and this wrong was then allowed to be remedied by entry only, without any form of law, or against the disseisor himself; but required a legal process against his heir or alienee. And when the remedy by assise was introduced, under Henry II., to redress such disseisins as had been committed within a few years next preceding, the facility of that remedy induced others, who were wrongfully kept out of the freehold, to feign, or allow themselves to be disseised, merely for the sake of the remedy. Blackst. Comm. book iii. ch. 10.

If a feme sole be seised of lands in fee, and is disseised, and then taketh husband; in this case the husband and wife, as in right of the wife, have right to enter, and yet the dying seised of the disseisor shall take away the entry of his wife after the death of the husband. (Co. Lit. 246.) If a person disseises me, and, during the disseisin, he or his servants cut down the timber growing upon the land, and afterwards I re-enter into the land, I shall have action of trespass against him; for the law, as to the disseisor and his servants, supposes the freehold to have been always in me: but if the disseisor be disseised by another, or if he makes a feoffment, gift in tail, lease for life or years, I shall not have an action against the second disseisor, or against those who come in by title: for all the mesne profits shall be recovered against the disseisor himself. (11 Rep. 52. Keilw. 1.)

By Magna Charta, 9 Henry III., c. 29, no man is to be disseised, or put out of his freehold, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land; and by stat. 32 Henry VIII. c. 33, the dying seised of any disseisor of, or in any lands, &c., having no right therein, shall not

be a descent in law, to take away an entry of a person having lawful title of entry, except the disseisor hath had peaceable possession five years, without entry or claim by the person having lawful title.

According to some writers, disseisin is of three sorts, viz. simple disseisin, committed by day, without force and arms: and disseisin by force, and fresh disseisin. Assises are called writs of disseisin, which lie against disseisors in any case whereof some are termed little writs of disseisin, as being vicontial, that is, suable before the sheriff in the county court, because determinable by him without assise.

DISSEISOR is he who disseiseth, or puts another out of his land as the disseisee is he who is put out. If a disseisor, after he has expelled the right owner, gains peaceable possession of the lands five years without claim, and continues in possession, so as to die seised, and the land descends to his heirs, they will have a right to the possession till the owner recovers at law; and the owner shall lose his estate for ever, if he doth not prosecute his suit within the time limited by the statute of limitations.

And if a disseisor levy a fine of the land whereof he is disseised unto a stranger, the disseisor shall keep the land for ever; for the disseisor against his own fine cannot claim, and the conusee cannot enter, and the right which the disseisor had, being extinct by the fine, the disseisor shall take advantage of it. (2 Rep. 56.) But this is to be understood, where no use is declared of the fine by the disseisee; when it shall enure to the use of the disseisor, &c. (1 Lev. 128.) A disseisor in assize, where damages are recovered against him, shall recover as much as he hath paid in rents chargeable on the lands before the disseisin. (Jenk. Cent. 189.) But if the disseisor or his feoffee sows corn on the land, the disseisee may take it before or after severance. (Dyer 31. 173. 11 Rep. 46.) Where a man hath a house in fee, &c., and locks it, and then departs; if another person comes to his house, and takes the key of the door, and says that he claims the house to himself in fee, without any entry into the house, this is a disseisin of the house. (2 Danv. Abr. 624.) If the feoffor enters on the land of the feoffee, and makes a lease for years, &c., it is a disseisin; though the intent of the parties to the feoffment was, that the feoffee should make a lease to the feoffor for life. (2 Rep. 59.) If lessee for years is ousted by his lessor, this is said to be no disseisin. (Cro. Jac. 678.) A man who enters on another's land, claiming a lease for years, who hath not such lease, is a disseisor; though if a man enters into the house of another by his sufferance, without claiming any thing, it will not be a disseisin. (9 Henry VI., 21, 31. 2 Danv. 625.) If a person enters on lands by virtue of a grant or lease, that is, void in law, he is a disseisor. (2 Danv. 630.) As the king in judgment of law can do no wrong, he cannot be a disseisor. (1 Ed. V. 8.) A disseisor is to be fined and imprisoned; and the disseisee restored to the land, &c., by stat. 20, Henry III. e. 3. Where a disseisor is disseised, it is called disseisin upon disseisin.

Man is to man all kind of beasts; a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dis

sembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapaCowley.

cious vulture.

Thy function too will varnish o'er our arts, And sanctify dissembling.

Rowe's Ambitious Stepmother. If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to? Tillotson

In vain on the dissembled mother's tongue
Had cunning art and sly persuasion hung;
And real care in vain, and native love,
In the true parents panting breast had strove.

Prior.

Men will trust no farther than they judge a person for sincerity fit to be trusted: a discovered dissembler can achieve nothing great and considerable. South.

It is true indeed that we should not dissemble and flatter in company; but a man may be very agreeable, strictly consistent with truth and sincerity, by a prudent silence where he cannot concur, and a pleasing assent where he can. Spectator.

They are the happiest, who dissemble best
Their weariness; and they the most polite
Who squander time and treasure with a smile,
Though at their own destruction.
DISSEMINATE, v. a.
DISSEMINATION, n. s.
DISSEMINATOR.

Cowper. From Lat. dissemino, dis diversely, and semino, to sow.

To diffuse, or scatter, as seed. The act of sowing or diffusing.

Ill uses are made of it many times in stirring up seditions, rebellions, in disseminating of heresies, and infusing of prejudices.

Hammond.

Though now at the greatest distance from the beginning of errour, yet we are almost lost in its dissemination, whose ways are boundless, and contess no circumscription.

Browne.

There is a nearly uniform and constant fire of heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth. Woodward

DISSENT', v. a. & n. s. DISSEN'SION, n. s. DISSEN'SIOUS, adj. DISSENTANEOUS, adj. DISSENTER, n. s.

Atterbury.

Fr. dissenter; It. and Lat. dissentire; from dis (diversely) and sentio, to perceive or discern. To disagree in judgment; to differ; applied particularly to a difference of opinion with the established church of England. Dissension is disagreement in any degree: dissensious, quarrelsome.

We han founden this wicked man stirynge dissention to alle iewis in alle the world, and auctour of

dissencioun of the secte of Nazarens.

Wiclif. Dedis. 24. Either in religion they have a dissensious head, or in the common wealth a factious head.

cognate legal term, non-conformists, as embracing all who absent themselves from the public worship of the Church, whether, 1. Through total irreligion, they attend the service of no other persuasion; or, 2. Through a mistaken zeal, weakness of intellect,' or perverseness and acerbity of temper, which,' he adds, is often the case,' they unite in worship with other communities, herding with a party.' This latter class of dissenters is divisible again, according to the same learned authority, in.o the papists,' who divide from the national church, upon ma terial though erroneous reasons,' and the Pro testant Dissenters, many of whom divide from it upon matters of indifference; or, in other words, upon no reason at all.'

These terms in fact, then, though constantly used to describe large bodies of religionists, are neither of them, religious terms: they simply express the political relation of a heterogeneous multitude of their fellow-subjects to the established church; a multitude including the wide extremes of the devout catholic and the avowed unbeliever; the Painite and the Southcottite; the ultra-Calvinist and the rational Unitarian. They are terms too, which, unlike the vast majority of those in our Lexicon, we trust, will be found to vary in their meaning according to that particular part or subdivision of our common, happy country in which these observations may meet the eye of our readers. In England, for instance, his majesty's good and acute subjects of the kirk of Scotland, in common with the other Presbyterians, are dissenters; in Scotland, the Episcopalian of the ever-loyal church of England is a dissenter; in Canada, the Protestant of whatever denomination; all of them in their respective situations, in the places aforesaid,' and for reasons by them deemed material' or 'no reason at all,' dividing from the established church.

We can only, therefore, in this place affix to so vague a term its more common and popular meaning. Connected necessarily with no religion, as we, after Mr. Justice Blackstone, contend, it has still too much of the savour of piety about it to be affiliated by the unbeliever; on the other hand it has too little of antiquity and dignity to be acknowledged by the consistent Catholic; to the Protestant dissenters, therefore, whatever the sages of the law may determine, and whatever may be its unhappy or discreditable associations, it seems, at last to belong: they are THE DISSENTERS of common parlance; and we propose, therefore, to offer to our readers in this paper, 1st, Some account of their existing legal situation and rights; 2dly. Of the principles common to this body as separatists from the establishment; and, 3dly. Of their political history.

1. Of the legal situation of Dissenters.-The basis of the existing law of England, on the subject of separatists, is still to be found in the sta tutes of 1 Eliz. c. 2. §. 14.; 23 Eliz. c. 1.; and 29 Eliz. c. 6. The first of these enacts, that every person, not having reasonable excuse, shall resort to his parish church or chapel, or upon reasonable let thereof to some usual place where common prayer shall be used, on every Sunday and holiday,' on pain of punishment by the censures