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Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.

Disagreeing; inconsistent. [Obs.] Feltham.

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.

objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

The quality of being essential; the essential part. Jer. Taylor.

In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

Essentiality. Ld. Digby.

To form or constitute the essence or being of. [Obs.] Boyle.

Having no essence or being. H. Brooke. The womb of inessential Naught. Shelley.

Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception. The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance. Reid. But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient. Sir W. Hamilton.

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

Not capable of being represented or portrayed.

Having equal entropy. Isentropic lines, lines which pass through points having equal entropy.

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined w…

t the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.

To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.

To treat wrongfully. [Obs.] Grafton.

An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.