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1,784 words match “SOUT”

DISENTITLE v.
tle or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.
DISINHERIT v.
im in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.
DISMAL a.
e dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.
DISOBLIGE v.
infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. South. My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison.
DISPARAGEMENT n.
n; -- commonly with to. It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not the sun. South. Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a Christian minister. I. Taylor.
DISPATHY n.
ympathy; want of passion; apathy. [R.] Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. Southey.
DISPEED v.
. [Obs.] Knolles. Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, DoSouthey.
DISPLEASEDNESS n.
Displeasure. [R.] South.
DISPOSAL n.
phrase at, or in, the disposal of. The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns. South.
DISQUALIFY v.
e are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey.
DISSOLUTION n.
e of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution. The dissolution of the compound. South.
DISSONANT a.
Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepfrom or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." South. What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman Hakewill.
DISUNITE v.
ll asunder; to become separated. The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite. South.
DISUSE n.
of the tongue in the only . . . remedy. Addison. Church discipline then fell into disuse. Southey.
DIVE v.
nge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.
DIVERSITY n.
. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South.
DIVINE a.
Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South.
DIXIE n.
A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.]
DOG v.
dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. South.
DOLEFUL a.
pressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton.
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