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To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

te a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

To free from being inclosed.

Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated. Bacon.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.

Uninhabited. [Obs.]

Same as Disherison. Bacon.

aw 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.

To disinter. [R.]

To render insecure; to put in danger. [Obs.] Fanshawe.

Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. Kirwan.