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One who consents.

One who disassents; a dissenter. [Obs.] State Trials (1634).

See Disinter.

, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.

The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev.

Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. "Dysenteric symptoms." Copland.

A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

Act of exenterating. [R.]

An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished. Cowell.

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.

One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.

Gastrointestinal.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Nobility of birth or of character; gentility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus.

One who invents.