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of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.

Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [R.] Llewellyn.

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.

Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

uitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft.

To constitute a difference; to make to differ. Who distinguisheth thee 1 Cor. iv. 7. (Douay version).

Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds.

exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the United States.

Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth. Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring. Shak…

ed with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) o…

Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.

efice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n.,

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.

.), a mite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]

Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. Shak.

Destitute of drink. Chaucer.