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To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon. To discolor all your ideas. Wat

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. Darwin.

To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.

To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton.

miny; to lower in estimation. Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace. Pope. His ignorance disgraced him. Johnson.

To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. Macaulay.

arriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

ns or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue. Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious. Bp. Atterbury. Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. Milton.

Act of disappearing; disappearance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

lance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask. Dissemble all your griefs and discontents. Shak. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs J. P. Kemble.

One who dissembles; 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.

The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]

Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.

The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a con…

A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser.

Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray.

principles. I expect but little success of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument. Glanvill.

s, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.