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To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

To discolor. [R.] Fuller.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] Jas. II.

To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.

Unequal; dissimilar; separate. Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. Coleridge.

Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade. Marryat.

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unduly. [Obs.]

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

To make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller.

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. [R.] Bacon.

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. Evelyn.

To unwind, as a thread from a ball. [R.]