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The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.

of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." Swift.

Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.

Discouragement. [Obs.] Spectator.

ging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

One who disesteems. Boyle.

That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

hartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.

Disguise. [R.] Spenser.

Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.

Release from obligation. [Obs.]

xcellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

f displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

Disposal. [Obs.] Goodwin.

To fail to remember; to forget. [Obs. or Archaic]