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on to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill. Ill armed, and worse disciplined. Clarendon. His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. Macaulay.

Inconsistency; discordance. [Obs.] Donne.

ge. He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit. Clarendon.

To discover or show one's self. [Obs.] This done, they discover. Decke Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. Milton.

To erase from a roll or list. [Written also disenrol.] Donne.

from error. Stewart. To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An unkindness; a disobliging act. He might dispense favors and disfavors. Clarendon.

t or change by liquor; to intoxicate. I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator.

act of cruelty may excite disgust. The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

ate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To deprive of life. [Obs.] Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.

A disobliging act; an offense. [Obs.] Clarendon.

d away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

Free from passion; dispassionate. [R.] "Dispassioned men." Donne.

d out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

moral disposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.

Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

A painting done with this preparation.

on was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.