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The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

eny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Dryden. He disclaims the authority of Jesus. Farmer.

parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

icular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." Shak. Home-home dishes that drive one from home. Hood.

economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.

ion; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments. To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance. Bancroft.

t of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.

ouvier. Kent. Burrill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.

vide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. Judith xvi. 24.

A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.

The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." Shak.

A pretended deity of pagans; a false god. Beastly divinities, and droves of gods. Prior.

A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label. Bailey.

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress. Dolly Varden trout (Zoöl.), a trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.

Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]