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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,237 words match “SPA”

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

DISPARAGINGLY adv.

In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.

DISPARATE a. 2 definitions

Unequal; dissimilar; separate. Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. Coleridge.

Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

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

ndition, 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.

DISPARK v. 2 definitions

rk) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.

To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.

DISPART v. 6 definitions

To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy. Sir W. Temple.

DISPASSIONATE a. 2 definitions

ced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

DISPASSIONED a.

Free from passion; dispassionate. [R.] "Dispassioned men." Donne.

DISPATCH v. 11 definitions

quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of. Shak. [The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who dispatches.

haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks. Milton.

DISPATCHMENT n.

The act of dispatching. [Obs.] State Trials (1529).

Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy. [R.] Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. Southey.

To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.

DISPAUPERIZE v.

To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill.

A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.