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To deprive of life. [Obs.] Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.

To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.] Do not dismay yourself for this. Spenser.

Not yielding. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. E. Darwin.

tic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life. Tatler.

rized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. Buckminster. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n.

No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.

A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness. To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry.

The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. We expected Immediate dissolution. Milton.

to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament. Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life. Shak.

y; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

In different directions; to different points. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Pope.

To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

censed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Shak.

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

Uncertainty of condition. Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. Deut. xxviii. 66.

That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

A state of depression; low state; abasement. [Colloq.] It the downs of life too much outnumber the ups. M. Arnold.