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ct of unkindness; a disfavor. [Obs.] The interchange continually of favors and disgraces. Bacon.

To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.

Same as Disherison. Bacon.

The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] Bacon.

A distributer; a dispenser. Bacon.

To displease. [Obs.] Bacon.

pose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. Bacon. To dispose of. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their…

ce; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope.

Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality. [Obs.] The dissent of the metals. Bacon.

. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.

pable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon.

f dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. Bacon.

t; reserve. Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. Bacon. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.

An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon.

Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute. Bacon.

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.

In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon. How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.