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ive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable. An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit. Blackstone.

artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. J. Adams.

ng, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

ngle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.

nt women for Sheridan and Fox. J. Morley. His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. A. W. Ward.

uiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

essing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

o part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

isappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South.

of the water by hydraulic presses. -- Naval dock, a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships. -- Sectional dock, a form of floating dock made in separate sections or caissons. -- Slip dock, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from de…

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

so ready at their call, They stood prepared to see the manna fall. Dryden. Heaven has in store a precious dole. Keble.

sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp.

A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story. W. E. Henley.

e inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it. To admire superior sense, and doubt their own! Pope. I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful. Tennyson. To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame.…

From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak.