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Disloyal; perfidious. [Obs.] "Disleal knight." Spenser.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. [Obs.] Speed. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ly, adv. [Obs.] Strype. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ness, n. [Obs.]

To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke. God was displeased with this thing. 1 Chron. xxi. 7. Wilt thou be displeased at us forever Psalms lxxxv…

With displeasure. [R.]

Displeasure. [R.] South.

One who displeases.

Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable. -- Dis*pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Dis*pleas"ing*ness, n. Locke.

The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot di…

A philosopher of the Eleatic school.

The Eleatic doctrine.

To accuse; to indict. See Implead.

Same as Interplead.

To bring to light; to make clear. Sclater (1654).

The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition. Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

Relating to the epitrochlea.

A religious organization of Methodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.