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ns of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton.

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his…

To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.] I dare not discede from my copy a tittle. Fuller.

price of ransom, a legal document. Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge. Milton.

To clear from clouds. [Archaic] Fuller.

To discolor. [R.] Fuller.

A discontented person; a malcontent. [R.] Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents. Fuller.

Full of discontent. [R.]

an absentee. He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller.

Full of discord; contentious. [Obs.] "His discordful dame." Spenser.

Full of discord. [Obs.]

A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next [world]. South.

isdained or regarded with contempt and aversion. [Obs.] Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain. Spenser.

Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.

To disafforest. Fuller.

raw from the condition of a friar. [Obs.] Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.