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The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.

A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [R.]

Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.

Tending to diminish. [R.] Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.

Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart. Letters dimissory (Eccl.), letters given by a bishop dismissing a person who is removing into another diocese, and recommending him for reception there. Hook.

entury; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in the same direction at the same time. Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex.

Tending to produce thirst. Wright.

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow.

Tending to separate or disunite parts. Encys. Dict.

To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles. [R.] Sending missionaries to disciple all nations. E. D. Griffin.

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. [R.] Spenser. By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others. Jer. Taylor.

Relating or tending to discontent. [R.] "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.

Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.