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Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [Obs.] Holland.

To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.

DISESTABLISH v.

To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

DISESTABLISHMENT n. 2 definitions

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

DISESTEEM n. 3 definitions

Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.

One who disesteems. Boyle.

DISESTIMATION n.

To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.] By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.

Disrepute. [R.] Tennyson.

To dislike. [Obs.]

To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

DISFAVOR n. 5 definitions

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 (1551). Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone.

DISFAVORABLE a.

Unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.

DISFAVORABLY adv.

Unpropitiously. [Obs.]

One who disfavors. Bacon.

To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]

DISFELLOWSHIP v.

To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.

DISFIGURATION n.

The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

DISFIGURE v. 2 definitions

e of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton.

DISFIGUREMENT n. 2 definitions

Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.