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Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.

To dismount. Tennyson.

Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.

A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.

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

To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.

Tending to disperse. Dispersive power (Opt.), the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism. -- Dis*pers"ive*ness, n.

a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke. God was displeased with this thing. 1 Chron. xxi. 7. Wilt thou be displeased at us forever Psalms lxxxv. 5 (Bk. of Com. Prayer). This…

To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom. One whom they disposed. Tennyson.

To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes…

Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [Obs.] His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates.

owne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.

ion; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson.

'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.

Tending to disquiet. [R.]

Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane. Why should you think that conduct disreputable in priests which you probably consider as laudable in yourself Bp…

Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

ust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.] Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.