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

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically

The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser.

Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness.…

ages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste. Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's couShak.

or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke.

Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property. A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life. Tatler.…

se of. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. Locke.

Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.

ood. -- Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. -- Fractional distillation. (Chem.) See under Fractional.

The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.

To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

est; a clergyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23.

To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a t…

The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.

State, condition, or quality of being, as in wisdom, freedom.