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A disposer.

acts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified. Macaulay.

Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.

Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.

Relating to disquisition; fond discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.

Disquisitory.

Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive. Ed. Rev.

Lying apart. [Obs.] Lands far dissite and remote asunder. Holland.

A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South.

The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Ps. cxxxix. 2.

The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing. [R.] Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

A mineral consisting of antimony and silver.

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic, a.

tive pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. [Obs.] "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

A feasting to excess. [Obs.]

work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.

Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.