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The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

ing 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.

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]

he withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

artered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.

Disguise. [R.] Spenser.

Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

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

Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.

Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [Obs.] Prior.

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment. [Written also disinthralment.]

The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [R.] Marshall.

ismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.

Release from obligation. [Obs.]