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To annul completely; to render void or of no effect. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul Isaiah xiv. 27.

noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.

er, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judg. v. 25.

nd acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.

children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws. Not to disobey her lord's behest. Tennyson.

a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. vi. 1. Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure. Milton.

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.

The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Obs.] Crabb.

attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity. That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 1 Cor. vii. 3

The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.

The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make. Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churche…

Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.

; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.

ing-room. He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

To play the duke. [Poetic] Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence. Shak.

Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. " A . . . dumpish and sour life." Lord Herbert. -- Dump"ish*ly, adv. -- Dump"ish*ness, n.

int; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty. The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force. Burke.