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a person who is removing into another diocese, and recommending him for reception there. Hook.

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow.

ss terms. No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer. Hooker.

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

To put or thrust away; to reject. A man discards the follies of boyhood. I. Taylor.

the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. Jonah iv. 11.

as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect…

their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.…

licious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." Shak. Home-home dishes that drive one from home. Hood.

To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. Lucar.

Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.

To differ; to be of a contrary nature. Hooker.

nything by the separation of its parts; ruin. To make a present dissolution of the world. Hooker.

n. To take away therefore that error, which confusion breedeth, distinction is requisite. Hooker.

sound of a drum. We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood. Watts. Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show. Shak.

ral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the United States.

troubler. A needless disturber of the peace of God's church and an author of dissension. Hooker.

Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. [R.] Hooker.

To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [Obs.] Hooker.

ching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker.