DIS 
eaufe he had been difmiffed by a court martial, which ad- 
d on his-lor linge condu& as a fe idiees a could 
neither difqualify him as a counfellor, nor as a peer. Be- 
fides, his rettoration to the king’s favour, was, in itfelf, tan- 
tamount to a pardon. 
Dismiss, is aifo a word of command occafionally give 
to troops on a parade, when it is intended they fhould ue 
to their barracks, &c. 
‘-DISMISSION of a Jill, in Chancery. Tf the plaintiff 
does not attend on the day fixed for the hearing, his bill is 
difmiffed with. eae “ may alfo- “ nee ig want = 
profecution, whic n the nature of a Non T at law, 
he — three ae 3 elapfe without ne es Gada in 
the c 
DISMOUNTING, in the Military Art, the a& of un- 
horfing. Thus, to difmount the cavalry, the dragoons, or 
the like, is to make them alight. 
To Dismounrt the cannon, is to break their carriages, 
wheels, and axle-trees, fo as to render them unfit for fervice. 
Horfes are alfo difmounted when they are rendered unfit 
for jane 
Y, Joun, in pia dhe was born at Lincoln in 
the year a e grammar {chool in that city he re- 
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a private academy among-the Diffenters, to whom his fa- 
ripen ay attached. He was next entered at the Middle 
tained with dignity and much reputation: he was diligent, 
difinterefted, and impartial in his decifions: be took an ac- 
a 
re orali 
duty gained him ie ie of ae wife and good, 
fome occafions he was fingled out as meriting the thanks of 
the judges of the circuit for fervices that he had rendered his 
country. As he advanced in life, and after he had ated as 
a magiftrate mere than 20 years, he conceived the defign of 
manhood. e was firft ordained a deacon, and afterwards 
in 1719 a prieft. In the fame year he was prefented wit 
the vicarage of Crof: to the reGtory of Kirby-fuper- 
Croft, an 
Baine, both in his native county. In the year 1722, 
was inftituted to the vicarage of St. Mary in Nottingham, 
to which town he removed ; and he remained till bis 
death in the year 1729-30. As a clergyman he was re- 
markably attentive to the duties oi profeffion, and his own 
condu& was in complete unifon with the precepts which he 
delivered as the rule ot life: he was admired as a preacher ; 
refpefted and beloved as a man. He guar many works ; 
and left behind him ftill more in MS.; of thefe we ak a 
full acccunt in the Biographia Brtaiea, ¢ our 
readers muft be referred for m Siperrts ee yap to 
this excellent man. Biog. Bri 
DISNIA, or Dissima, in Geography, an ifland or pe- 
ninfula qf Jap pan, on a rock of h the Dutch had 
formerly eae factory, and from ahi he carried on a con- 
eas et 
It is aad from the city of Nanguazak only by a 
iver and a wall, which divides the traders from all com- 
munication with the town. ‘The ifland is about two miles 
in compafs; andno Dutchman was allowed to ftir out of it, 
duting the whole time of his ftay, or about nine moaths in 
DIS 
the year; without danger of being cut to pieces by the 
guards, which were fet over them, and guarded the bridgs 
over the river that parted them from the city. 
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ny more than on fhip board; and if the centinels heard any: 
uncommon noife, or a any dilturbance among them, 
; hey gave immediate notice of it by blowing a horn; 
upon which a party was difpatched by the governor, with an- 
officer at their head, to inquire into the occafion of it, and. 
either punijfh, or, at leait, feverely threaten the offenders, 
panefe lords, who thought it no difgrace to their dzeity ton 
trade with ftrangers in that fort of commodity. 
DISORDERLY Houses. See Nusance. 
Disorperry Perfons DS. 
DISORIENTATED, from dis, and oriens, eats aterm: 
applied to a thing that is Hehe or removed from the eaft,. 
to which it was originally di 
But the moft frequently. ufed in a figurative sae 
for ae diteoncertng, or putting a.man out of his way 
elem 
w Marvel ufes the word difoccidentated inftead- 
of Silonewtated Geneva had difoccidentated our. geogra- 
her 
DISPARAGEMENT, in Law, was wed, in the old? 
tenures, for the matching an heir, &c. in marriage, below: 
is or her degree or condition; or againft the rules of de-- 
cee 
Ss 
The word is a compound of the privative particle dis, and: 
par, equal, 
DISPA RT, in Gunnery, is ufed for fetting a mark on the. 
muzzle-ring of a piece ot ordnance; fo that a fight-line, - 
with a piece of twine or marlin’ but an inilrument may» 
be made to do it to all.poffible nicety.. See Line of. 
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Dispart Frontlet. See Fronr 
DISPAT' CH, (from the French "dépcehéy which induced. 
J n to write it defpatch,)-is a letter on important ftate 
orerhal fent with particular care and expedition. by a truf-- 
ppointed fer that {pecial purpofe. 
on, 
perfone A sekel appointed to be the bearers. of -difpatches 
n England are called king’s..meffengers;.in France ands. 
Can many, couriers.. But. when a letter. of particular im- 
portance is confided in Germany to a poftillion-of.the polt-~ 
office, or to any {pecial meffenger fent exprefs on horfeback,. 
fuch a perfon is called an-eftafette, corruptly. eine flafette, in. 
Englifh an exprefs. . 
DISPAUPER. When- “any san yy reafon of “his po-. 
rae the ar be — , the fm me party as ¢ any land or.- 
erfonal eft him, or that the court, wherein his 
per fall t 
Luit is aecenaite, ane fit. for Gan. or fome other si 
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