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2,689 words match “PENS”

DISEASE n. 2 definitions
ess; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [Obs.] So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak.
DISENTRAIL v.
let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.
DISFAVOR n.
An unkindness; a disobliging act. He might dispense favors and disfavors. Clarendon.
DISGRACE v.
treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. Spenser.
DISGUISEMENT n.
Disguise. [R.] Spenser.
DISHABLE v.
To disparage. [Obs.] She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite. Spenser.
DISHERIT v.
herit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.
DISHEVEL v.
ple. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.
DISINCLINATION n.
The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.
DISLEAL a.
Disloyal; perfidious. [Obs.] "Disleal knight." Spenser.
DISLIKEFUL a.
Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.
DISLOIGN v.
To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.
DISMAIL v.
To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.
DISMAL a.
Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.
DISMAY v. 2 definitions
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.] Do not dismay yourself for this. Spenser.
DISMAYFUL a.
Terrifying. Spenser.
DISMOUNT v.
To come down; to descend. [Poetic] But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.
DISPACE v.
To roam. [Obs.] In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
DISPARAGE n.
arriage; marriage with an inferior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dissuaded her from such a disparage. Spenser.
DISPARAGEMENT n.
e; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.
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