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Disgraceful; unbecoming. [R.] Bailey.

A genus of plants. See Yam.

To refuse to assent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not accordant. Fabyan.

Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Prov. vi. 19. Peace to ari…

That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. [R.] Halliwell.

State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

Full of discord; contentious. [Obs.] "His discordful dame." Spenser.

Full of discord. [Obs.]

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] Jas. II.

Incongruous. W. Montagu.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. [R.] Bacon.

The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.

A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. Evelyn.

The act of sweetening or edulcorating.