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Divided; separated. [Obs.] Stow.

To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.

of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Not conformable. Disconformable in religion from us. Stow (1603).

oval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage. A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot. Bancroft.

Unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.

Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton.

etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship. A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay.

to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.),

er; to descry. [Obs.] And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers. Chapman.

To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. Evelyn.

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.

Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. Fairfax.

Toward a distal part.

A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitu…

draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.