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Containing diorite.

Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.

To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

One who puts another out of his inheritance.

To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

Act of disappearing; disappearance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

tion, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay.

To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.

Depression of spirits; discouragement. [R.] Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.

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

See Dispirit.

A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Drought. [Obs.] Tyndale.

Hardness; firmness. Sir T. Browne.

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.