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The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev.

To throw into a state of dissent. [R.] Feltham.

Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n.

Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.

Disagreeing; inconsistent. [Obs.] Feltham.

The quality of being diverse.

A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.

Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. "Dysenteric symptoms." Copland.

A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

ute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes. De Quincey.

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

The quality of being essential; the essential part. Jer. Taylor.

In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

Essentiality. Ld. Digby.

To form or constitute the essence or being of. [Obs.] Boyle.

integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

A young eel. [Prov. Eng.]

Highly actinic light, derived from sunlight or from some form of electric lamp, used in the treatment of lupus and other cutaneous affections.