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Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. Congressional and official labor. E. Everett. Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representativ…

Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.

A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.

See under Rocket.

To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.

A step, stair, or staircase. [Obs.] By ladders, or else by degree. Rom. of R.

of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them. Sir W. Temple.

Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. T. Warton.

Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. Johnson.

By way of digression.

To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury.

Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall.

The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Disagreement. [Obs.]

The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

One who disagrees. Hammond.