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Tending to disperse. Dispersive power (Opt.), the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism. -- Dis*pers"ive*ness, n.

Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [Obs.] His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates.

Tending to disquiet. [R.]

Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane. Why should you think that conduct disreputable in priests which you probably consider as laudable in yourself Bp…

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

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

Feigning; simulating; pretending. [Obs.] Henryson.

Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system (Mech.), an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

Tending or leading to dissociation.

A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. -- n.

Tending to excite distaste. [Obs.] -- n.

Distending, or capable of being distended.

The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.

With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

Tending or serving to draw apart.

Tending or serving to distract.

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.