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discerner of truth, of right and wrong. A great observer and discerner of men's natures. Clarendon.

ination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill. Ill armed, and worse disciplined. Clarendon. His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. Macaulay.

courage. He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit. Clarendon.

ruth from error. Stewart. To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An unkindness; a disobliging act. He might dispense favors and disfavors. Clarendon.

h, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. Macaulay.

alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.

A disobliging act; an offense. [Obs.] Clarendon.

arried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.

tention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.

ord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.

Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.

In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.

llery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. South.

To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.

understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

ree vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendon. -- To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.