DIS 
whom reprehenfion may be given; thus, what would be but a 
cer, would, if ufed towards a 
all occafions with the ftriGteft pro- 
vere a 
ua 
ands the molt exemplar Eales 
The policy of ane ae fub ordinates das witneffing the 
expulfion o cer is certainly proper; hence we con- 
fider the ordinary mode of deputing a ae to deliver the 
fentence to the offender, to be highly politic and com- 
ndable. 
But ae the court have refolved to break an officer in 
the moft fe 
t 
that ae fovereign commutes the punifhment to breaking 
with 
= Tt; ieowceeees is to be obferved, that no officer, or apo 
can be broke with infamy except by the - ecifion of a com 
petent court; and t a punifhment u es n 
any man, in lieu fe an oe. even of death, is obvioufly 
againft the ftatute, becaufe a perfon broke with infamy is 
incompetent to become a witnefs in any caufe ; whereas one 
convicted of any crime whatever, provided he obtain the king’s 
pardon, is reftored to his credit, and may be adduced as a 
teftimony iz any court, civil or military ; at lea{t fuch are the 
opinions of our beit law authorities, fuch as Hawkins, Holt, 
and Hale, who all admitted a pardoned felon to give evi- 
dence, while they invariably rejected fuch as had ftood in 
judges of the 
law, tobe very c i 
death, &c. might be urged in a or an affent, and be 
jound a fufficient ground for profecution. 
Difgracing a_regiment 18, erafing its number from the 
military calendar: this has on various occafions been done, 
the corps being firft broken and its colours burnt. 
A foldier is held to = in difgrace, who is obliged, for any 
{pecified number o wear his coat the wrong fide 
outwards, fo as to ag ing him from the deferving part of 
the regiment. regret much that fuch means are not 
more generally aise to, for the punifhment of jlight 
offences : from w at we can culleét, many very important 
reformations have bee fly by attacking the pride, 
rather than ihe backs i the foldi 
DISGUISE. Perfons peg unlawful ads in difguife, 
DI8 
are, by our ftatutes, fometimes fubjeQed to great ae 
and even declared felons. ‘Thus, perfons conviéted o t 
ing in difguife, 1 in forefts, parks, or warrens, or of ae 
hunting in the night, are to fuffer as felons. But the prin- 
cipal a&t of Seip eaael in this refpe@t, is that commonly 
called the Black 4, which nie 
H, in Mining, j is a trough made of .wood, about 
twenty-eight inches" long, four inches deep, and fix inches 
wide; by which all miners meafure their ore. If any be 
taken felling their ore, not firft meafuring it by the bar- 
matter’s difh, and paying the king’s duties, the feller for= 
feits his ore, and the buyer fone, for every fuch eves 
ase fhillings.to the lord of the field, or farmer. See Min 
“DISHERISON, an old word of the fame import as dif 
inheriting. Our lord the king, oe his own damage, 
and difherifon of the crown, &c. Stat. 20 Ed. I. 8 Ri- 
char 
DISHERITOR, a ae who difherits, or 
other out of his inheritance. The fheriff fhall, forttewitts, be 
saa as a a ritor ofc our lord the king, and his crown, 
t. 3 Edw. 1. c. 39. 
T'S rae in canals, a town of Egypt ; 16 miles 
o 
N.E. of Men 
DISIMIEU, a {mall town of oo. in the department 
of the Iferé ; 3 miles S.E. of Cremieu. 
DISINTEGRATION, in Geile, implies = fepara~ 
tion of the integrant parts of mo sand ftrata, by the 
vieifliendes of the atmofphere, the abfors tion and conection 
of water in confequence of the fudden dilatations and con- 
trations thereby, produced, &c.; by means obanleraad 
the o have bee 
fo far lowered, degraded, and decompofed, as is have fur 
nifhed matter for the fubfequent formation of what they 
call the fecondary ftrata : this opinion feems, however, to be 
faft giving way, and the Deposition of Strata, (fee that 
article) to be accounted for, on principles fimilar to thofe 
which operated in the formation of the fubftances called 
primitive. 
DISJUNCT Pesvonnian: See Discrete Proportion. 
DISJUNCTIVE denotes fomething that feparates or 
disjoins. Thus, disjunctive conjundtions fignify a {pecies of 
words which bear this contradittory name, becaufe, a 
pofition. 
peal ; for an account of which, fee ApvERSATIVE 
ConjJUNCTION. 
IsJUNCTIVE Propofitions, in Logic, are compound pro- 
pofitions, rapa le wo members, or parts, coaneCted by 
a ala ay conj 
e firft eropetcne e a dilemma is ufually a disjun@tive 
ris 
* You mult either obey the king, or be a rebel. 
ut you muft not be a rebel. 
Therefore you muft obey the king.” 
DISK. See Disc and Discu 
a in Botany, the centraf pee of a compound, or fyn.- 
genelious flower, oppofed to the sae or radiant part. 
The diflk i is either fous ] in the e, or Chryfanthemumy 
8 a verfal.y 
radius alfo is white, or re No inftance is known o 
yellow rays w.th a white, red, cr blue difk.” Sm. Introd. 
. Botany, 30 
5C2 Dik 
