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The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effe…

irector or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport. Burke.

anagement; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

ther good. They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft.

To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.

The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.

A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke.

liances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.

low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.

abyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.

Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. Shak.

Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.

age dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

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

exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade. Proudly displaying the insignia of their order. Prescott.

n. It will add infinitely dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics. Burke.

trict. -- District judge, one who presides over a district court. -- District school, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.]

Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult. The disturbance was made to support a general accusation against the province. Bancroft.

r study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. "Public diversions." V. Knox. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret. Divulge not such a love as mine. Cowper.