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nd controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study. To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed. Milton. Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process. Transl. of Lavoisier.

at depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

lf to maintain his honor. Nothing . . . that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. Milton.

custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

he state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel. The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished. Jer. xxv. 34.

ve of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

issembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope.

To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. [R.] J. Foster.

A writer of dissertations.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.

Disagreement; difference. Related with some divergence by other writers. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

ritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana.

Dejected; low-spirited.

To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.