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affected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. [R.] Blount.

o reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs. If I disclose my passion, Our friendship 's an end. Addison.

Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage. He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit. Clarendon.

To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self. From a friends's grave how soon we disengage! Young.

frain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. South. My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison.

embleth with his lips. Prov. xxvi. 24. He [an enemy] dissembles when he assumes an air of friendship. C. J. Smith.

ebates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension amon…

Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

suading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation. In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. Boyle.

the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton.

ering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.

To break friendship; to fall out. Shak.

c. 2, 1823), the essential feature of which is that the United States will regard as an unfriendly act any attempt on the part of European powers to extend their systems on this continent, or any interference to oppress, or in any manner control the destiny of, governments whose independence had been acknowledged by th…

al out scantily or grudgingly. The supercilious condescension with which even his reputed friends doled out their praises to him. De Quincey.

ng precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith. My charming friend . . . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him. Atlantic Monthly.

s it a great cruelty to expel from our abode the enemy of our peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts] Bancroft.

or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends." Shak.

der was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.

experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.