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Inordinate; disorderly. [Obs.] "With disordinate gestures." Prynne.

Inordinately. [Obs.] E. Hall.

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

To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize. [R.]

Deoxidation. [R.]

erved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.] We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.

t; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ly, adv. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ness, n.

eed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.

Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc. The universal dissemination of those writings. Wayland.

Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated. The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. Jer. Taylor.

One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

Separated by bounds. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Separation by bounds. [Obs.] Hammond.

Continuance during the day. [Obs.]

or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10.

One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [R.] Burton.

Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

To predominate over; to rule; to govern. "A city dominated by the ax." Dickens. We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated. W. Tooke.