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Disdainful. [Obs.] Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak.

Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.

Disdainful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

To disdain. [Obs.] Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. Spenser.

One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.

An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.

Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [Obs.] So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak.

Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving.

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

Causing uneasiness. [Obs.] Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon.

The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.

To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

To fail of edifying; to injure. [R.]

To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.

A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.

To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.