disbarment 
disbarment (dis-bar'ment), n. [< disbar + 
-ment.] The act of disbarring, or the state of 
being disbarred. 
disbaset (dis-bas'), * * [< dis-, taken as equiv. 
to de-, + base 1 ; a var. of debase.'} To debase. 
[Rare.] 
First will I die in thickest of my foe, 
Before I will disbase mine honour so. 
Greem, Alphonsus, v. 
disbecomet (dis-be-kum'), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
become.] To misbecome. 
Anything that may disbecome 
The place on which you sit. 
Massinger and Field, Fatal Dowry, v. 2. 
disbelief (dis-be-lef ), . [< dis- priv. + be- 
lief.] 1 . Positive unbelief ; the conviction that 
a proposition or statement for which credence 
is demanded is not true. 
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the na- 
ture of the thing. Tillotmn. 
So 
Did I stand question, and make answer, still 
With the same result of smiling disbelief. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 317. 
Atheism is a disbelief in the existence of God that is, 
a disbelief in any regularity in the Universe to which a 
man must conform himself under penalties. 
Quoted in Pop. Set. Mo., XXII. 608. 
2. A negation or denial of the truth of some 
particular thing. [Rare.] 
Nugatory disbeliefs wound off and done with. /. Taylor. 
= Syn. 1. Disbelief, Unbelief, incredulity, distrust, skep- 
ticism, infidelity. Disbelief is more commonly used to 
express an active mental opposition which does not im- 
ply a blameworthy disregard of evidence. Unbelief may 
be a simple failure to believe from lack of evidence or 
knowledge ; but its theological use has given it also the 
force of wilful opposition to the truth. 
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own lit- 
tleness than a disbelief in great men. 
Carlyle, Hero-Worship, L 
A disbelief in gliosts and witches was one of the most 
prominent characteristics of scepticism in the seventeenth 
century. l^ecky, Rationalism, I. 37. 
I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 
1 Tim. i. 13. 
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul ; 
unbelief, in denying them. Emerson, Montaigne. 
disbelieve (dis-be-leV), v. ; pret. and pp. disbe- 
lieved, ppr. disbelieving. [< dis- priv. + believe.'} 
I. trans. To reject the truth or reality of ; hold 
to be untrue or non-existent ; refuse to credit. 
Such who profess to disbelieve a future state are not al- 
ways equally satisfied with their own reasonings. 
Bp. Atterbury. 
I disbelieve that any one who is not himself full of love 
and tenderness has ever, since the world began, yet trans- 
mitted to another sonl the truth that God is love. 
F. P. Cobbe, Ministry of Religion, p. 257. 
TT, intrans. Not to believe ; to deny the truth 
of any position ; refuse to believe in some 
proposition or statement ; especially, to refuse 
belief in a divine revelation. 
As doubt attacked faith, unbelief has avenged faith by 
destroying doubt. Men cease to doubt when they disbe- 
lieve outright. Cardinal Manning. 
disbeliever (dis-be-le'ver), . One who disbe- 
lieves; one who refuses belief ; one who denies 
the truth of some proposition or statement ; an 
unbeliever. 
An humble soul is frighted into sentiments, because a 
man of great name pronounces heresy upon the contrary 
sentiments, and casts the disbeliever out of the Church. 
Watts. 
= Syn. Unbeliever, Skeptic, etc. See infidel. 
disbench(dis-bench'),>. t. [<di*-priv. + bench."] 
1. To drive from, or cause to leave, a bench or 
seat. [Rare.] 
Sir, I hope my words disbench'd you not. 
Shall., Cor., ii. 2. 
2. In Eng. lav, to deprive of the status and priv- 
ileges of a bencher. 
disbend (dis-bend'), v. t. [< OP. desbender, < 
ML. disbendare, unbend, loosen; in E. as if dis- 
priv. + bend 1 . Cf. disband.] To unbend; re- 
lax ; hence, figuratively, to render unfit for effi- 
cient action. [Rare.] 
As liberty a courage doth impart, 
So bondage doth disbend, else break, the heart. 
Stirling, Julius Ceesar, cho. 3. 
disbindt (dis-bind'), v. t. fX dis- priv. + bind. 
Cf . disbend and disband."] To unbind ; loosen. 
Nay, how dare we disbind or loose ourselves from the 
tye of that way of agnizing and honouring God, which the 
Christian church from her first beginnings durst not doe ? 
J. Mede, Discourses, i. 2. 
clisblamet (dis-blam'), f . t. [< ME. desblamen, 
< OF. desblasmer, desblamer, excuse, < rites- priv. 
+ blasmer, blamer, blame : see dis- and blame.] 
To exonerate from blame. 
Desblameth me if any worde be lame, 
For as myn auctor seyde, so seye I. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 17. 
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disbloom(dis-blom'),i>. t. [<d&-priv. + bloom.'] 
To deprive of bloom or blossoms. [Rare.] 
A faint flavour of the gardener hung about them [grave- 
diggers], but sophisticated and disbloomed. 
R. L. Stevenson. 
disbodiedt (dis-bod'id), a. [Pp. of *disbody, 
equiv. to disembody.'] Disembodied. 
They conceive that the diibodyed soules shall return 
from their unactive and silent recesse, and be joined again 
to bodies of purified and duly prepared ayre. 
Qlanville, Pre-existence of Souls, xiv. 
disbordt (dis-bdrd'), v. i. [< OP. desborder, F. 
ddbordcr, which, however, has not the exact 
sense of 'disembark,' but means 'overthrow, 
go beyond, naut. sheer off, get clear,' < des- 
priv. + bord, edge, border, board, etc.] To 
disembark. 
And in the arm'd ship, with a wel-wreath'd cord, 
They streightly bound me, and did all disbord 
To shore to supper. Chapman, Odyssey, xiv. 
disboscationt (dis-bos-ka'shon), n. [< ML. dis- 
boscatio(n-), < dis-jpriv. + boscus, a wood: see 
boscage, bu-sli 1 .] The act of disforesting; the 
act of converting woodland into arable land. 
Scott. 
disbosom (dis-buz'um), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
bosom.'] To make known, as a secret matter ; 
unbosom. 
Home went Violante and disbosomed all. 
Browning, King and Book, 1. 118. 
disbourgeon, v. t. See disburgeon. 
disbowel (dis-bou'el), v. t. ; pret. and pp. dis- 
boweled, disbowelled, ppr. disboweling, disbowel- 
ling, [< ME. disboicelen (spelled dysbowaylyn 
Prompt. Parv.) ; < dis- priv. + bowel.'] To 
disembowel : usually in a figurative sense. 
A great Oke drie and dead, . . . 
Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde, 
But halfe disbowel'd lies above the ground. 
Spenser, Ruins of Rome, st 28. 
Nor the disbowelled earth explore 
In search of the forbidden ore. 
Addison, tr. of Horace's Odes, iii. 3. 
'Twas bull, 'twas mitred Minotaur, 
A dead disbowelled mystery. 
D. 0. Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh. 
disbrain (dis-bran'), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
brain.] To deprive of the brain ; remove the 
brain from. [Rare.] 
If the cerebrum were removed, then all energy was 
transposed into reflex movement, and consequently dis- 
brained and decapitated animals manifested much strong- 
er reflex movements than did such animals as possessed 
this secondary derivation. Nature, XXX. 260. 
disbranch (dis-branch'), v. t. [< OF. desbran- 
cher, desbranchir, disbranch, < des- priv. + 
branche, branch: see dis- and branch.] 1. To 
cut off or separate the branches of, as a tree ; 
prune. [Rare.] 
Such as are newly planted need not be disbranched till 
the sap begins to stir. Evelyn, Calendarium Hortense. 
2. To sever or remove, as a branch or an off- 
shoot. [Rare.] 
She that herself will sliver and disbranch 
From her material sap, perforce must wither, 
And come to deadly use. Shak., Lear, iv. 2. 
disbud (dis-bud'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. disbudded, 
ppr. disbudding. [< dis- priv. + bud^.] To 
deprive of buds or shoots; remove the unne- 
cessary buds of, as a tree or vine. This is done 
for the needs of training, and in order that there may be 
more space and nourishment for the development of those 
buds which are allowed to remain. 
disburden (dis-ber'dn), v. [Also disburthen; < 
dis- priv. + burdenl, burthen^.] I, trans. 1. 
To remove a burden from ; rid of a burden ; re- 
lieve of anything weighty, oppressive, or an- 
noying; disencumber; unburden; unload. 
My meditations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being 
thus disburdened. Sir P. Sidney. 
The Ship having disburdened her selfe of 70 persons, . . . 
Captaine Newport with 120 chosen men ... set forward 
for the discovery of Monacan. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, I. 196. 
How have thy travels 
Disburthen'd thee abroad of discontents? 
Ford, Lover's Melancholy, i. 1. 
When we have new perception, we shall gladly disbur- 
den the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 59. 
2. To lay off or aside as oppressive or annoy- 
ing; get rid of; relieve one's self of. 
Disburden all thy cares on me. Addison. 
= Syn. 1. To disencumber, free, lighten, discharge, dis- 
embarrass. 
H. intrans. To ease the mind ; be relieved. 
Adam . . . 
Thus to disburden sought with sad complaint. 
Milton, P. L., x. 719. 
discard 
disburgeon (dis-ber'jon), v. t. [< dis- priv. 
+ burgeon.] To strip of buds or burgeons. 
Also spelled disbourgeon. 
When the vine beginneth to put out leaves and looke 
green, fall to disburgeoniny. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvii. 22. 
disburse (dis-bers'), v. t.; pret. and pp. dis- 
bursed, ppr. disbursing. [< OF. desbourser, F. 
debourser (whence also deburse, q. v.) (= It. 
sborsare), < des-, apart, + bourse, a purse : see 
dis- and burse, bourse, purse.] To pay out, as 
money ; spend or lay out ; expend. 
The twelve men stuck at it, and said, Except he would 
disburse twelve crowns, they would find him guilty. 
Latimer, 6th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1519. 
To meet the necessary expenses, large sums must be 
collected and disbursed. Calhoun, Works, 1. 18. 
disburset (dis-bers'), n. [< disburse, v.] A pay- 
ment or disbursement. 
The annual rent to be received for all those lands after 
20 years would abundantly pay the public for the first die- 
burses. Defoe, Tour thro' Great Britain, I. 342. 
disbursement (dis-bers'ment), n. [= F. de- 
boursement = It. sborsamento ; as disburse + 
-ment.] 1. The act of paying out or expend- 
ing, as money. 
It is scarcely desirable that the Government whip 
should be supplied with even ten thousand a year for dis- 
bursement, as he thinks proper in his capacity as a party 
manager. Fortnightly Rev., N. 8., XL. 133. 
2. Money paid out ; an amount or sum expend- 
ed, as from a trust or a corporate or public 
fund : as, the disbursements of the treasury, or 
of an executor or a guardian, 
disburse! (dis-ber'ser), n. One who pays out 
or disburses money. 
disburthen (dis-ber'THn), v. See disburden. 
disc, n. See disJc. 
discage (dis-kaj'), t). t.; pret. and pp. discaged, 
ppr. discaging. [< dis- priv. + cage?] To take 
out of a cage. [Rare.] 
Until she let me fly discaged, to sweep 
In ever-higheritig eagle-circles up. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
discal (dis'kal), a. |X disc, disk, + -al.] 1. 
Pertaining to a disk in any way ; like a disk ; 
discoidal. 2. On the disk or central part of a 
surface. In Ichthyology, applied specifically by Gill to 
the teeth of the lampreys on the surface of the subcircular 
oral disk between the mouth and the teeth, concentric with 
the periphery of the disk. Discal cell, in entom., a large 
cell at the base of the wing of lepidopters, sometimes di- 
vided longitudinally into two. Discal spot, in entom., a 
round spot behind the middle of the wing, seen in most 
species of the lepidopterous family Noctuidce. Also called 
orbicular spot. 
discalceatet (dis-kal'se-at), v. t. [= F. de- 
chausse, < L. discalceatus, unshod, < dis- priv. + 
calceatus, shod, pp. of calceare, shoe: see dis- 
and calceate.] To pull or strip off the shoes or 
sandals from. Cockeram. 
discalceationt (dis-kal-se-a'shon), . [< dis- 
calceate : see -ation.] The act of pulling off the 
shoes or sandals. 
The custom of discalceation, or putting off their shoes 
at meals, is conceived ... to have been done, as by that 
means keeping their beds clean. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 6. 
discalced (dis-kalsf), . [< L. discalceatus, 
unshod: see discalceate.] Without shoes ; un- 
shod; barefooted: specifically applied to a 
branch of the Carmelite monks known as Dis- 
calceati (the barefooted). 
discampt (dis-kamp'), v. t. [< OF. descamper, 
< des- priv. + camp, camp : see dis- and camp%. 
Cf. decamp.] To force from a camp; force to 
abandon a camp. Minsheu. 
No enemte put he ever to flight, but he discamped him 
and draue him out of the field (quin castris exueret). 
Holland, tr. of Suetonius, p. 242. 
discandert, v. i. A corrupt form, found only in 
the passage from Shakspere (A. and C., iii. 11) 
cited under diseandy. 
discandyt (dis-kan'di), v. i. [Appar. < dis- 
priv. + candy 1 , v. ; i. e., melt out of a candied 
or solid state.] To melt ; dissolve. 
Fortune and Antony part here ; even here 
Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts 
That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave 
Their wishes, do diseandy, melt their sweets 
On blossoming Csesar. Shak., A. and C., iv. 10. 
My brave Egyptians all, 
By the discandying [var. discandering Knight] of this 
pelleted storm, 
Lie graveless. Shak., A. and C., iii. 11. 
discant (dis'kant), n. See descant. 
discapacitate (dis-ka-pas'i-tat), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. discapacitated, ppr. discapacitating. [< tlis- 
Jriv. + capacitate.] To incapacitate. Imp. Diet. 
Rare.] 
scard (dis-kard'), j). [= Sp. Pg. descartar 
= It. scartare, discard, reject, dismiss ; as dis- 
