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Discovery. [Obs.]

r or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things. It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession. Rogers.

*ly, adv. And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. Canning.

c counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.

A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment. [Written also disinthralment.]

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.

most need them. South. My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison.

sorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

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

; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke.

e; to correct. [Obs.] And bitter Penance, with an iron whip, Was wont him once to disple every day. Spenser.

h one's fellow-men; temper of mind. "A man of turbulent disposition." Hallam. "He is of a very melancholy disposition." Shak. His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype.

o mismatch; to join unfitly. To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. Shak. A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. Prescott.

y; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is very disputable. Jer. Taylor.

ike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.

Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon.

component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.