disaccord 
But she did disaccord, 
Ne could her liking to his love apply. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. ill. 7. 
Nothing can more disaccord with our experience than 
the assertion that our thoughts and desires never do or 
can intervene as causes in the events of our lives. 
Mivart, Nature and Thought, p. 212. 
disaccordant (dis-a-kor'dant), . [< OF. des- 
acordant, disaccordant, ppr. of desacorder, des- 
accorder, disagree : see disaccord, and cf . accor- 
dant.] Not agreeing; not accordant. 
disaccustom (dis-a-kus'tom), v. t. [Formerly 
also disaccustome ; '< OF. desaccoustumer, F. des- 
accoutumer(=Sp. desacostumbrar = Pg. desacos- 
tui(ir),< des-pTiv. + aecoustumer, accustom : see 
dis- and accustom, v.] To cause to lose a habit 
by disuse ; render unaccustomed as by disuse : 
as, he has disaccustomed himself to exercise. 
disacidify (dis-a-sid'i-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
disacidified, ppr. disacidifying. [= F. desacidi- 
fier ; as dis- priv. + acidify."] To deprive of 
acidity ; free from aeid ; neutralize the acid 
present in. Imp. Diet. [Bare.] 
disacknowledget (dis-ak-nol'ej), v. t. [< dis- 
Eriv. + acknowledge.] To refuse to acknow- 
>dge; disown. 
By words and oral expressions verbally to deny and dig- 
acknowledge it. South. 
disacquaintt (dis-a-kwanf), v. t. [< OF. desa- 
cointer, desaccointer, disacquaint, < des- priv. + 
acointer, acquaint : see dis- and acquaint, v.~\ To 
render unfamiliar or unacquainted ; estrange. 
M\ sick heart with dismal smart 
Is disacquainted never. Herrick. 
'Tis held a symptom of approaching danger, 
When disacquainted sense becomes a stranger, 
And takes no knowledge of an old disease. 
Quarles, Emblems, i. 8. 
disacquaintancet (dis-a-kwan'taus), n. [< dis- 
priv. + acquaintance.] Want of acquaintance; 
unacquaintance ; unf amiliarity. 
The straungenesse thereof proceedes but of noueltie 
and disaquaintance with our eares. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 131. 
disadjust (dis-a-jusf), v. t. [< dis- priv. + ad- 
just, v.] To destroy the adjustment of; disar- 
range ; disturb ; confuse. 
When the thoughts are once disadjugted, why are they 
not always in confusion ? Hervey, Meditations, II. 32. 
disadorn (dis-a-dorn'), v. t. [< dis- priv. 4- 
adorn, v. Cf. OF. desaorner, desaourner, de- 
spoil.] To deprive of ornaments. 
When she saw grey Hairs begin to spread, 
Deform his Beard, and disadorn his Head. 
Congfeve, Hymn to Venus. 
disadvancet (dis-ad-vans'), v. t. [Earlymod. E. 
disadvaunce; < ME. disavauncen, < OF. desavan- 
cer, desavancier, desadvancier, hinder, thrust or 
throw back, < des- priv. + avaneer, advance: 
see dis- and advance, v.] 1. To drive back; 
repel ; hinder the advance of. 
To speken of an ordinaunce 
How we the Grekes myghten disavaunce. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 511. 
Ther were many full noble men and trewe that hadden 
grete drede that for the faute of her prowesse that holy 
cherche and cristin feith were disavaunced. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 260. 
And [he] lefte the hoste on the left side, and that was to 
disavaunce the Emperour, and by-reve hym the way to 
Oston. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 658. 
2. To draw back. 
Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, 
That forced him his shield to digadvaunce. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. iii. 8. 
disadvantage (dis-ad-van'taj), n. [< ME. dis- 
advauntage, disavauntage, < OF. desavantage, F. 
desavantage (= Sp. desi'entaja = Pg. desvantagem 
= It. svantaggio), < des- priv. + avantage, ad- 
vantage: see dis- and advantage, n.] 1. Ab- 
sence or deprivation of advantage ; that which 
prevents success or renders it difficult ; any un- 
favorable circumstance or condition: as, the 
disadvantage of poverty or imperfect education. 
After all, Horace had the disadvantage of the times in 
which he lived ; they were better for the man, but worse 
for the satirist. Dryden, Orig. and Prog, of Satire. 
Well, this is taking Charles rather at a disadvantage, to 
be sure. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 1. 
The exact spot through which the English soldiers 
fought their way against desperate disadvantages into the 
fort is still perfectly discernible. 
Macaulay, Life and Letters, I. 326. 
2. Loss; injury; prejudice to interest, reputa- 
tion, credit, profit, or other good: as, to sell 
goods to disadvantage. 
They would throw a construction on his conduct to his 
disadvantage before the public. Bancroft. 
= Syn. Detriment, injury, hurt, harm, damage, prejudice, 
drawback. 
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disadvantage (dis-ad-van'taj), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. disadvantaged, ppr. disadvantaging. [< OF. 
desadvantager, F. desavantager, hinder, disad- 
vantage; from the noun.] To hinder or em- 
barrass ; do something prejudicial or injurious 
to; put at disadvantage. 
Let every man who is concerned deal with justice, 
nobleness, and sincerity, . . . without tricks and strata- 
gems, to disadvantage the church by doing temporal ad- 
vantages to his friend or family. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 169. 
That they [the philanthropic) may aid the offspring of 
the unworthy, they disadvantage the offspring of the 
worthy through burdening their parents by increased 
local rates. H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 20. 
disadvantageablet (dis-ad-van'taj-a-bl), a. [< 
dis- priv. + advantageable.] Not advantageous ; 
contrary to advantage or convenience. 
Hasty selling is commonly as disadvantageable as inter- 
est. Bacon, Expense. 
disadvantageous (dis-ad-van-ta' jus), a. [=F. 
desavantageux = Sp. desventajoso = Pg. desvan- 
tajoso = It. svantaggioso ; as dis- priv. + ad- 
vantageous.] 1. Attended with disadvantage ; 
not adapted to promote interest, reputation, or 
other good; unfavorable; detrimental. 
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to 
the weaker side. Goldsmith, Vicar, xiii. 
In short, the creed of the street is, Old Age is not dis- 
graceful, but immensely disadvantageous. 
Emerson, Old Age, p. 286. 
2f. Biased; unfriendly; prejudicial. 
Whatever disadvantageous sentiments we may enter- 
tain of mankind, they are always found to be prodigal 
both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public 
justice. Hume, Prin. of Government. 
disadvantageously (dis-ad-van-ta'jus-li), adv. 
In a manner not favorable to success or to in- 
terest, profit, or reputation ; with loss or in- 
convenience. 
When we come to touch it, the coy delusive plant [the 
sensitive plant] immediately shrinks in its displayed 
leaves, and contracts itself into a form and dimensions 
disadvantageously differing from the former. 
Boyle, Works, I. 260. 
disadvantageousness (dis-ad-van-ta 'jus-nes), 
n. Want of advantage or suitableness; un- 
favorableness. 
This disadvantageousness of figure he [Pope] converted, 
as Lord Bacon expresses it, into a perpetual spur to rescue 
and deliver himself from scorn. 
Tyers, Hist. Rhapsody on Pope, v. 
disadventuret (dis-ad-ven'tur), n. [< ME. dis- 
aventure, < OF. desaventure, desadventure, des- 
advanture (= Pr. Sp. Pg. desaventura = It. dis- 
avventura), < des- priv. + aventure, adventure : 
see dis- and adventure.] Misfortune; misad- 
venture. 
This infortune or this disaventure. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 297. 
Such as esteem themselves most secure, even then fall 
soonest into digadventure. Raleigh, Arts of Empire, p. 176. 
Hee died of his owne sword, which falling out of his 
scabbard as hee mounted his Horse, killed him, not fear- 
ing in this countrey of Syria any such disaduenture, be- 
cause the Oracle of Latona in Egypt had tolde him hee 
should die at Ecbatana. Purchag, Pilgrimage, p. 354. 
disadventuroust (dis - ad - ven ' tur - us), a. [< 
disadventure + -ous.] Unfortunate ; attended 
by misfortune or defeat. 
Now he hath left you heare 
To be the record of his ruefull losse, 
And of my dolefull digaventurous deare. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 48. 
All perill ought be lesse, and lesse all paine, 
Then losse of fame in disaventrous field. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 65. 
disadviset (dis-ad-viz'), v. t. [Chiefly in p. a. 
disadvised, after OF. desavise, unadvised, rash, < 
des- priv. T avise, pp. of aviser, advise : see dis- 
and advise. Cf. disadvised.] To advise against ; 
dissuade from; deter by advice. [Rare.] 
I had a clear reason to disadvise the purchase of it. 
Boyle, Works, V. 464. 
disadvisedt, y. ". [See disadvise.] Ill-advised. 
In what soeuer you doe, be neyther hasty nor disaduised. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 73. 
disaffect (dis-a-fekf), v. t. [< dis- priv. + /- 
feeft.] 1. To alienate the affection of; make 
less friendly ; make discontented or unfriendly : 
as, an attempt was made to disaffect the army. 
2. To lack affection or esteem for; not to 
affect ; dislike ; stand aloof from : as, to dis- 
affect society. [Rare or archaic.] 
Unless you disaffect 
His person, or decline his education. 
Shirley, The Brothers, i. 1. 
Making plain that truth which my charity persuades 
me the most part of them disaffect only because it hath 
not been well represented to them. 
Chillingwm-th, Relig. of Protestants, Ded. 
disafforestation 
3f. To throw into disorder ; derange. 
It diga/ects the bowels, entangles and distorts the en- 
trails. Hammond, Sermons, xxiii. 
disaffected (dis-a-fek'ted), p. a. [Pp. of dis- 
affect, v.] 1. Having the affections alienated ; 
indisposed to favor or support ; unfriendly, as 
one displeased with the actions of a superior, a 
government, or a party. 
I believe if I were to reckon up, I could not find above 
five hundred disaffected in the whole kingdom. 
Goldsmith., Essays, From a Common-Councilman. 
The tyranny of Wentworth, and the weak despotism of 
Charles, all conspired to make the Irish disaffected and 
disloyal. W. S. Gregg, Irish Hist, for Eng. Readers, p. 67. 
2f. Morbid; diseased. 
As if a man should be dissected 
To find what part is disaffected. 
S. Sutler, Hudibras, II. i. 506. 
disaffectedly (dis-a-fek'ted-li), adv. In a dis- 
affected manner. 
disaffectedness (dis-a-fek'ted-nes), n. The 
state of being disaffected. 
Yet the king had commonly some in these houses that 
were otherwise minded, and discovered the treachery and 
disa/ectedness of the rest. Strype, Memorials, an. 1534. 
disaffection (dis-a-fek'shon), n. [< F. desaf- 
fection (= Sp. desaficion = Pg. desaffeiyao), dis- 
affection, < des- priv. + affection, affection : see 
dis- and affection, and cf. disaffect.] 1. Aliena- 
tion of affection, attachment, or good will ; es- 
trangement ; or, more generally, positive en- 
mity, dislike, or hostility ; disloyalty : as, the 
disaffection of a people to their prince or gov- 
ernment ; the disaffection of allies ; disaffection 
to religion. 
Difference in Opinion may work a Disaffection in me, 
but not a Detestation. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 32. 
The whole Crew were at this time under a general Dig- 
affection, and full of very different Projects ; and all for 
want of Action. Dampier, Voyages, I. 371. 
True it is, some slight disaffection was shown on two or 
three occasions, at certain unreasonable conduct of Com- 
modore Hudson. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 88. 
The Irish disaffection is founded on race antipathy and 
not on political principle. 
Roe, Contemp. Socialism, p. 106. 
2f. In a physical sense, disorder; constitu- 
tional defect. [Rare.] 
The disease took its origin merely from the disaffection 
of the part. Wiseman, Surgery. 
= Syn. 1. Dissatisfaction, ill will, hostility, disloyalty. 
disaffectionatet (dis-a-fek'shon-at), a. [< dis- 
priv. + affectionate, after F. desaffectionne = 
Sp. desaficionado = Pg. desaffeiyoado = It. dis- 
affezionato.] Not well disposed; lacking af- 
fection; unloving. 
A beautiful but disaffectionate and disobedient wife. 
Hayley, Milton. 
disaffirm (dis-a-ferm'), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
affirm.] 1. To deny; contradict. 2. In law, 
to overthrow or annul, as in the reversal of a 
judicial decision, or where one, having made a 
contract while an infant, repudiates it after 
coming of age. 
The Supreme Court of the United States has disaffirmed 
the view of the Post-office Department, and affirmed that 
of the company. 
New York Tribune, XLIII., No. 13319, p. 5. 
disaffirm ance (dis-a-f er'mans), n. [< disaf- 
firm, after affirmance.] 1. Denial or negation 
of something said or done ; refutation. 
A demonstration in disafflrmance of anything that is 
affirmed. Sir M. Hale. 
2. In Jaw, overthrow or annulment. 
If it had been a disaffirmance by law, they must have 
gone down in solido ; but now you see they have been 
tempered and qualified as the King saw convenient. 
State Trials, The Great Case of Impositions (1606). 
disaffirmation (dis-af-er-ma'shon), . [< dis- 
affirm + -ation, after affirmation.] The act of 
disaffirming ; disaffirmance. Imp. Diet. 
disafforest (dis-a-for'est), v. t. [< OF. desafore- 
ster, < ML. disafforestare, < L. dis- priv. + ML. 
afforestare, afforest : see dis- and afforest.] In 
England, to free from the restrictions of forest 
laws ; reduce from the legal state of a forest to 
that of common land. 
By Charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disaffor- 
ested. Blackstone. 
The rapid increase of population [in Great Britain] has 
led to the disafforesting of woodland. 
Kncjic. Brit., IX. 398. 
disafforestation (dis-a-for-es-ta'shon), n. [< 
disafforest + -ation.] The act or proceeding of 
disafforesting. 
The steady progress of ditia/<>rctittit>n. 
The Athenaeum, Xo. 3150, p. 302. 
