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To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

h anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study. To disengage him and the kin…

Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness, n.

The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.

Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.

Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

To free from entailment.

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

th, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.

To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.

The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.

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

The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

To free from bitterness.

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

Free from warmth of passion or feeling.