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To torture; to excruciate. [Obs.] Discruciate a man in deep distress. Herrick.

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

f an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.

Insanity; folly. [Obs.] What tediosity and disensanity Is here among! Beau. & Fl.

To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. Spenser.

used chiefly in the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

Dismission. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

tory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws. Not to disobey her lord's behest. Tennyson.

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dissuaded her from such a disparage. Spenser.

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

ute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott.

lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse. Cowper.

se; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. Evelyn.

tion." Shak. His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype.

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.

ticians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope.