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ienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.

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

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton.

To disable; to render useless. Comber.

To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.] Do not dismay yourself for this. Spenser.

rriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

Not yielding. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. E. Darwin.

A disobliging act; an offense. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

ried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

To render unprepared. [Obs.] Hobbes.

To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in hi…

To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb. Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me Ps. xlii. 11. As quiet as these disquieted times will permit. Sir W. Scott.

To break asunder; to rend. Thomson.

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.

To render dissimilar.

To render unsocial.

ntion was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.