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The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [R.] Marshall.

To eject from the maw; to disgorge. [R.] Shelton.

To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. What words be these What fears do you dismay Fairfax.

A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

Terrifying. Spenser.

A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.

Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [R.] Llewellyn.

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

Giving dismission.

To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.

To come down; to descend. [Poetic] But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.

tion of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

Disobedience.

observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.