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To free from entailment.

dly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

See Disinter.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]

To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.

To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.

To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

embowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

Dispersedness. [Obs.]

each of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. [R.] Ascham. -- Dis*sen"sious*ly, adv. Chapman.

To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from. The bill passed . . . without a dissenting voice. Hallam. Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us. Addison.

Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous. [R.] Barrow.

Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Obs.] Milton.

Dissension. [Obs.] W. Browne.

One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.