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Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

Disordered; disturbed; disquieted. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ness, n.

Inconsistency; discordance. [Obs.] Donne.

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside.

To discount. See Discount. Hudibras.

break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation. [R.] State Trials (1794).

Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [R.]

Not conformable. Disconformable in religion from us. Stow (1603).

Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.

Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale.

; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals. Walsh.

The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]

To differ; to disagree; to dissent. [Obs.] Milton.

The state of being disconsolate. [Obs.] Barrow.

Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.

Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.

Dejection; grief. [R.] Bp. Hall.