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To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. Swift.

To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. All God's angels come to us disguised. Lowell.

Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty! Ecclus. x. 31. To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Shak. -- Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon"or*a*bly, adv.

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

To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.

To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient. He durst not know how to disobey. Sir P. Sidney.

To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke.

Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. How stands your disposition to be married Shak.

bject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss. The rest I reserve it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein. Milton.

To show disrespect to. We have disrespected and slighted God. Comber.

Showing want of respect; disrespectful. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

es; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman Hakewill.

A dissuasive. [R.] This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories. Jeffrey.

a distaff on the throne. Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. Howell.

To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] Howell.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

truth from falsehood. Watts. Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show. Shak.

In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon. How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.