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An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. Having witnessed displays of his power and grace. Trench.

Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of. The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns. South.

ution and melancholy. Bacon. To dispose of. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. Locke.

Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [Obs.] His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates.

The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger.

ce with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak.

To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

ight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. Burke.

Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. [Obs.] Frampton.

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie. Dryden.

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. Ray.

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate. Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care. Otway.

Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A diversity of direction; detachment. [Obs.] His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled all species. Shak.

The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.

ncy, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope.

Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe. They say there is divinity in odd numbers. Shak. There's such divinity doth hedge a king. Shak.

Having power to divorce; tending to divorce. "This divorcive law." Milton.