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nce; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

ed upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley.

To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.

To shake; to put away; to finish. [Obs.] All regard of shame she had discussed. Spenser.

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

out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. Flatterers of the disgraced minister. Macaulay. Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. J. Morley.

To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.

To rid; to free. [Obs.] I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. Udall.

To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.] She had disposed with Cæsar. Shak.

. His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype.

To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.

us divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ciate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.

f morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak.

per; ill humor. [Obs.] Little faults proceeding on distemper. Shak. Some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.

er the glebe distill the kindly rain. Pope. The dew which on the tender grass The evening had distilled. Drayton.

To invest with a divine character; to deify. [R.] M. Arnold. Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman.

tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret. Divulge not such a love as mine. Cowper.

To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding. Sir W. Scott.