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DISARRANGEMENT n.
The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.
DISARRAY v. 4 definitions
To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton.
DISARRAYMENT n.
Disorder. [R.] Feltham.
DISARTICULATE v.
To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.
DISARTICULATOR n.
One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.
DISASSENT v. 2 definitions
To dissent. [Obs.]
DISASSENTER n.
One who disassents; a dissenter. [Obs.] State Trials (1634).
DISASSIDUITY n.
Want of as siduity or care. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
DISASSIMILATE v.
To subject to disassimilation.
DISASSIMILATION n.
breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.
DISASSIMILATIVE a.
Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation. Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells. McKendrick.
DISASSOCIATE v.
To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate. Florio.
DISASTER n. 4 definitions
a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent. [Obs.] Disasters in the sun. Shak.
DISASTERLY adv.
Disastrously. [Obs.] Drayton.
DISASTROUS a. 2 definitions
npropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton.
DISATTIRE v.
To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.
DISAUGMENT v.
To diminish. [R.]
DISAUTHORIZE v.
To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.
DISAVAUNCE v.
To retard; to repel; to do damage to. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DISAVENTURE n.
Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.
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