DI8 
Discreiine, Book of, in Gad speed i dae oe piles 
mini- 
fand, is acommon order, draw 
{ters in 1550, for the i en ae wifrmity - he ob- 
ferved in the a 3 policy of the chur In this 
ook the government of the church by pales is fet afide, 
€ bday a are citablithed, the fuperftitious obfervation of 
faft-days and faints’ days is condemn » and other re 
tions for the overnment o 
book was approved by the privy- -council, and is called che 
firft book of difcipline. 
he puritans, jn the reign of queen Elizabeth, who were 
zealous in their endeavours co effeé& a reformation of difci- 
pline in the national eftablifhment, beld in high eftimation “ a 
book of difcipline,’’ entitled ‘ Difciplina ecclefie facra ex 
i ripta,”’ i.e. the holy oo of ae baely 7 - 
d in the word of God. T 
Mr. Travers, a fellow of Trinity lee es 
was 
tranflated into Englifh in year 1584, and defigned to be 
rd all ed — jas ral u 
n ies ys ‘ue ere actio 
was found | in Mr, Cnnae 8 fady 
hee his death, and prued in the year 1644, under a new 
title, viz. <4 A dir e€tory of government, &c. practifed by 
the firft non- Re saelacrieg in the days of queen Elizabeth, &c.’ 
‘This book contained thofe alterations in difcipline, &e. for 
c me 
exceptions, or declared their st of this book of 
difcipline. 
Dicciitens: military, denotes the exercife of thofe laws 
that are eftablifhed for regulating the condu& of military 
men. 
PLINEs. marine, fignifies the training up aie. ad 
fea. fervice, in fuch exercifes and manceuvres as can be 
formed on board fhips = es at fea 
DISCLAIMER, i a ple a, containing an -_ 
Genial, ae or il Saag. of a thing a leged. 
s if a tenant fue a replevin upon a diilrefs taken by the 
Jord, and ae lord avow the taking, faying, that he holds of 
him as his lord, and that he diftrained for rent not paid, or 
fervice not performed ; then the ae denying to hold of 
fuch lord, is faid to difclaim; and the lord proving the 
tenant to hold o im, ona ea of right fur difclaimer brought, 
the tenant lofes his land. his difclaimer by a tena 
unifhed accordingly, by for 
difclaimer : 
him at the firft infeodation, or takes upon himfelf thofe rights 
which belong only to tenants of a fuperior clafs (Co. Litt. 
252) if he affirms us reverfion to be in a ftranger, by ac- 
ng his fine, attorning’ as his tenant, collufive pleading 
: a ; fuch a behaviour amounts to a for- 
ack i 
him, he fhall not h 
his se pad but is barred of his right to the land anicleimed. 
(8R 62.) But a verbal difclaimer fhall not take place 
ere a deed of lands; nor fhall the difclaimer of a wife 
during the coverture bar her entry on her lands, 
Baron and feme a difclaim for the wife ; though if the hufe 
DIS 
band hath nothing but in right of his wife, he cannot oe 
(2 Danv. Abr 569. A perfon who cannot lofe the thin 
perpetually in which he difclaims, fhall not be eae to 
ui 
iberties 
m, this fhall bind the Wace elon (Co. Litt. 102, 103. 
if a man be vouched becaufe of a reverfion on a leafe made 
by himfelf, he cannot difclaim; but an heir may difclaim, 
ee slats upon a leafe made by his anceftor. (2 Danv. 
509.) It is faid not to be nec: flary, that the writ of right, 
Jur di “Nelaimer fhould be brought againft the perfon that dif- 
claims ; for if it be only againft him that is found tenant of 
land, though he bea ftranger, it is not material. (2 Danv.- 
By ftatute 21 Jac. I - f. 5, in all ations of trefpafe 
guare claufum fregit, in aa the ae dant fhall diiclaim: 
any title to the land, and the trefpafs be by negligence, or 
involuntary, the defendant fhall be admitted to plead a dif 
claimer, and that the trefpafs was by negligence, or jnvolun- 
tary, and a tender of fufficient amends before the ation 
und for the 
e faid aGion, an 
fides thele difelaimers by cae 
difclaimers ; thus, a man, dea 
blood, or iced of another, in his plea, is faid to difclaim: 
his blood (F. N. B. 102. a man arraigned of felony; 
difclaim goods; being cleared, he lofes them. (Scandf. P. C,. 
8, likewife, i in chancery, if a defendant by his anfwer 
e 
uncing an executorfhip of a will, or the r eght to an ade 
miniftration. 
DISCLAMATION, in Scots Law, is that cafualty by 
which a vaffal forfeits his whole feu to his fuperior, if he dil-- 
owns, or difclaims him, without ground, as to any part 
of it. 
ISCLOSED; a term ufed for earn or hawks, 
newly hatched ; alfo for buds, : meee { wn. 
DISCOBOLYI, AuzoCoru, from diox co Barras, £ 
throw, among the Ancients, an sppelanice given to shofe 
who gained the victory at the difcus, See Discus 
OID Frowers, in Botany; are fuch co mpound 
flowers as, having no radius, contift oF regular tubular ai 
crowded and parallel, and alk together forming a fur 
nearly flat, as in Santolina, or ieean sae as in mee 
The fame term is uled, evea though marginal floréts be pre~ 
fent, provided they are fal aa cont cuca as in rte= 
mifia, Tanacetum, &c. 
ISCOIDES Fisuca, in Natural Hifory, the name of 
a genus of the echinodermata, or {ca hedge-hogs ; the peri- 
-phery of the bafe of- in is exactly round, and the body of 
a convexo-concave figu The principal fpecies of this. 
genus-is the fubuclus, hich has: fometimes a rofaceous tops. 
the my being very neat.and elegant, fometimes a plain an 
fmooth top; fometimes it is all over covered with extremely 
aren) and fine ftriz, and - metimes it is much flatter thaw: 
at others. Klein’s Echinod 
DISCONTINUANCE i, ; an nnteroption, intermiffion, or’ 
ceffation, of the courfe of a thing; as, difcontinuance of: 
poff:ffion, of a plea, prozcfs, ee 
Difcontinvance, as to real property, is an injury, which’ 
conlitts in keeping out the true owner of an eftate, by a 
tenant 
