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The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.

differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. [R.] Spenser. By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others. Jer. Taylor.

Deserving, disapprobation or blame. -- Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness, n.

Blame; censure; reproach. [R.] Ayliffe.

One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.

The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.

ters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." Swift.

Discovery. [Obs.]

Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.

Disembarkation. [R.]

Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.

The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.

The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.

The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.

The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

Discouragement. [Obs.] Spectator.

The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

ing or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.