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To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. [Obs.] The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. Bp. Ward. "Exhort" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench.

One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.

A gatepost or doorpost. [Local Eng.] C. Kingsley.

t of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft.…

n used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot. The vast design and purposTennyson. The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.…

a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.

Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture. Milton.

ut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.] The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace. Bp. Hall.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

es, or The twelve disciples, the twelve selected companions of Jesus; -- also called the apostles. -- Disciples of Christ. See Christian, n., 3, and Campbellite.

Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.

evolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.

To discharge; to explode. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. [Obs.] In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.

To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. Tillotson.

concord of. Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise . . . of all posterity! Milton.

Different in kind or species; diverse. [Obs.] Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9.