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To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor. Your worth will dignity our feast. B. Jonson.

A spendthrift. [Obs.] Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave Drant.

To free from acid.

Bearing disks.

mens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; - - said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Discoid.

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

To fail of edifying; to injure. [R.]

To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. [R.] Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

pacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey.

A formi

To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.

Not uniform. [Obs.]

The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.

Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.

State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.

tinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.

One who, or that which, diversifies.

Of a different form; of varied forms.