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lomat. In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatics whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.

With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [R.] Strype.

.) Same as Chthonophagia. -- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684). -- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

Not angelical. [R.] "Disangelical nature." Coventry.

roversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic] Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. Strype.

or; to put out of the good graces of any one. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry. Pepys.

Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.

The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.

ls are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

vers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh.

n occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype.

In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.

To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

f by sending off; to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.

To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.

Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. [Obs.] Speed. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ly, adv. [Obs.] Strype. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ness, n. [Obs.]

led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype.

Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.

Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). [Obsolescent] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton.