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The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart. Sir J. Reynolds.

, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.

To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.

The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.

The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]

Water in which dishes have been washed. "Suds and dishwater." Beau. & Fl.

ion of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

at the building of Babel. The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished. Jer. xxv. 34.

To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.…

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. I. Taylor. It is the dissidence of dissent. Burke.

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidencI. Taylor.

Distinguished; 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.

cernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic. Not more distinguished by her purple vest, Than by the charming features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares.

Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

So as to be distinguished.

Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to Ant: nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.