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In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.

Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.

The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

Capable of being divested.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

The act of divesting. [R.]

Divestiture. [Obs.]

ining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

One who domesticates.

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

of Dress.

of Dry, a.