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culate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell.

state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement. The world's opinion or diminution of me. Eikon Basilike. Nor thinks it diminution to be ranked In military honor next. Philips.

discover. Decke Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. Milton.

pt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next [world]. South.

all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak.

ty; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.

in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, 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.

disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

To send out of the world; to put to death. The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. Ezek. xxiii. 47.

in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.

on of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin. To make a present dissolution of the world. Hooker.

nto a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. As if the world were all dissolved to tears. Shak.

Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

ion. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. Money, the great divider of the world. Swift.

minator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.

that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.

that drags down his life. Tennyson. There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down. Addison. The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English. Shak.

An Old World species of Spiræa (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse. All world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.