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A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [R.]

Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic] Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. Strype.

One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] Cowley.

Discontent. [Obs.] Ascham.

The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.

To disqualify. [R.]

To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth. [R.]

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.

Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. Buckminster. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n…

Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. I. Watts.

Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem. "A disreputation of piety." Jer. Taylor.

Dissension. [Obs.] W. Browne.

To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. [R.] J. Foster.

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.

A writer of dissertations.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.

The act of making rich; enrichment. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.