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To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. [R.] Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.

A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

acitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey.

ate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified. Macaulay.

strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison.

To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. Shak.

ssolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

istinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. [Obs.] Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name. Milton.

x; the diurnal revolution of the earth. Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring. Shak.

Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.

to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] "Blessed and divinified soul." Parth. Sacra (1633).

title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. Chesterfield.