discuss 
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We might discuss the Northern sin, 
Which made a selfish war begin. 
Tennyson, To F. P. Maurice. 
Hence 5. To examine or investigate the qual- 
ity of by consuming, as something to eat or 
drink : as, to discuss a fowl ; to discuss a bottle 
of wine. [Humorous and colloq.] 
A meal was soon discussed, and in an hour we were 
again on the move. P. Robinson, Under the Sun, p. 148. 
We discussed tariff and currency and turkey and cham- 
pagne with the Pittsburg iron and steel lords in the even- 
ing. S. Bowles, in Merriam, II. 53. 
In civil late, to exhaust legal proceedings disdain (dis-dan'), 
disease 
Gr. o7c, 
see di- 
</is<li(ijHi- 
SirP. Sidney, Arcadia, iv. son. 
= Syn 1 Despise, etc. (see scorn), scout, spurn. See disease (di-zeV), M. [< ME. disese, rarely de- 
comparison of nouns under arrogance. sese, < AF. "disese, disease, aesaese, (Jf . desaise, 
Il.t intrans. To be filled with scorn or con- desayse, F. desaise = Pr. desaise, uneasiness, 
tempt. trouble, pain, disease, = Pg. desazo, dullness, 
Ajax, deprived of Achilles armour, which he hoped from blockishness, == It. disagio, trouble, inconve- 
the suffrage of the Greeks, disdains ; and, growing i n i ence) w ant; as dis- priv. + ease.] If. Lack 
or absence of ease ; uneasiness; pain; distress; 
trouble; discomfort. 
patient of "the injury, rageth and runs mad. 
B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
il. UWWWW JG "^"" *" V****"!! . . ' 
= Pg. desdem, = It. disdegno, sdegno, disdain ; 
erty of a person secondarily liable 
See benefit of discussion, -under discussion. 7. ,-.-,. 
In French-Canadian law, to procure the sale of from the verb.] 1. A feeling of contempt mm- 
(the property of a debtor) by due process of law gled with aversion ; contempt ; scorn. 
"- ' J iL * ~* I haue ther-of grete disdeyn, that he thourgh his grete 
iride leste to a-rise a-gein Rome as longe as he knoweth 
...i-._ sn T* rr> a \ til ti'in 
and apply the proceeds toward the payment of 
the debt. = Syn. 4. Dispute, Debate, etc. See argue. 
discussable (dis-kus'a-bl), a. [< discuss + 
-able.] Capable of being discussed, debated, 
or reasoned about. J. S. Mill. 
discusser (dis-kus'er), n. One who discusses ; 
one who reasons or examines critically. John- 
son. 
discussion (dis-kush'on), n. [= D. discussie = 
G. discussion = Dan. Sw. discussion, < F. discus- 
sion = Pr. discussion = Sp. discusion = Pg. dis- 
cussSo = It. discussione, < L. discussio(n-), a 
shaking, LL. an examination, discussion, < dis- 
cutere, pp. discussus, shake apart (discuss) : see 
discuss.] 1. The act or process of breaking up 
or dispersing ; dispersion, as of a swelling or an 
effusion. [Obsolete except in surgical use.] 
2. Debate; disquisition; the agitation of a 
point or subject with a view to elicit truth or 
gain a cause ; argument about something. 
m'e'o'n'fyve." " '"Merlin (E."E. T. S.), iii. 639. 
A man whose wisdom is in weighty affairs admired 
would take it in some disdain to have his counsel solemn- 
ly asked about a toy. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 15. 
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. 
Shak., Much Ado, iii. 1. 
You sought to prove how I could love, 
And my disdain is my reply. 
Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 
2f. The state of being despised ; the state of 
feeling one's self disgraced; ignominy; dis- 
grace. 
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and 
struck him down ; the disdain and shame whereof hath 
ever since kept Hector fasting and waking. 
Shak., T. and C., i. 2. 
3f. That which is worthy of disdain. 
Th' other halfe did womans shape retaine, 
Most lothsom, filthie, foule, and full of vile disdaine. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 14. 
= Syn. 1. Pride, Presumption, etc. (see arrogance), scorn- 
fulness, contemptuousness. See scorn, v. 
[< disdain + -ed 2 .] 
The authority of law and the security of property were 
found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and , _. 
of individual action never before known. Macaulay. disdainedt (dis-dand'), a. 
3. In civil law, the act of exhausting legal pro- Disdainful. 
ceedings against a debtor or his property be- Revenge the jeering and diidain'd contempt 
fore proceeding against the property of a per- Of this proud king. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. S. 
son secondarily liable for the debt Benefit of disdainful (dis-dan'ful), a. [< disdain + -ful, 
discussion, in civil law, the right of a person liable to 
pay a certain sum, in case of the failure to pay it of the 
person primarily liable, to require a diligent attempt to be 
made to collect it by law from the latter before demand is 
made upon himself : a right in Louisiana ordinarily belong- 
ing to a guarantor and to the purchaser of property subject 
to a mortgage, when part of the mortgaged property is 
still owned by the mortgager, etc. Discussion of prop- 
erty, in French-Canadian law, the selling of the property 
of a debtor by due process of law at the instance of a cred- 
itor, and the application of the proceeds to the payment 
of the debt. See benefice. 
discussional (dis-kush'on-al), a. [< 
+ -al.] Of or pertaining to discussion. 
burgh Bev. 
discussive (dis-kus'iv), a. and . [< discuss + 
-ive.] I. a. If. Breaking up and scattering mor- 
bid affections, as tumors; discutient. 
If ought be obstructed, he puts in his opening and dis- 
cussive confections. Milton, Church-Government, ii. 3. 
2. Having the power to settle or bring to a 
1.] Full of or expressing disdain ; contemptu- 
ous; scornful; haughty. 
Yet I gesse vnder disdainfull brow 
One beam of ruth is in her cloudy looke, 
Which comfortes the mind, that erst for fear shooke. 
Wyatt, The Wauering Louer, etc. 
Let not ambition mock their useful toil, 
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; 
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 
The short and simple annals of tile poor. 
Gray, Elegy. 
disdainfully (dis-dan'ful-i), adv. Contemptu- 
ously; with scorn ; in a haughty manner. 
Disdainfully she look'd ; then turning round, 
But flx'd her eyes unmov'd upon the ground. 
Dryden, ^Eneid, vi. 
disdainfulness (dis-dan'ful-nes), n. Con- 
tempt ; contemptuousness ; haughty scorn. 
There was never such beastliness of minds, such disdain- 
fulness in hearts. Strype, Queen Mary, an. 1554. 
conclusion; determinative; decisive. [Rare.] disdainOUSt (dis-da'nus), a. [< ME. desdayn- 
II. n. [= F. discussif.] A medicine that dis- 
perses or scatters; a discutieut. 
discutient (dis-ku'shient), a. and n. [< L. dis- 
eutien(t-)s, ppr. of discutere, shake apart, dis- 
perse, scatter, etc.: see discuss.] i. a. Dis- 
persing morbid matter. 
I then made the fomentation more discutient by the 
addition of salt and sulphur. Wiseman, Surgery, i. 7. 
ous, < OF. desdaigneux, F. dedaigneux = Pr. 
desdenltos = Sp. desdeKoso = Pg. desdenhoso = 
It. disdegnoso, sdegnoso ; as disdain + -OMS. Cf . 
dainous.] Disdainful. 
His loking was not disdeynous 
Ne proude, hut meke and ful pesyble ; 
About his uecke he bare a Byble. 
.Rom. of the Rose, 1. 7410. 
HA mpfHcii n or n i Thy scorns, mocks, and other dittfainous words and be- 
n. A n >r an application wnicn ]laviou ,. s . Latimer, On the Card, ii. 
disperses a swelling or an effusion. j.j- , /,. ,- , ,.\ j - j 
disdain (dis-dan'), v. [< ME. disdainen, des- disdamouslyt (dis-da'nus-li), adv. Disdam- 
dainen, disdeynen, disdeignen (also dedeynen, lullv ' 
etc.: see dedain 1 ), < OF. desdaignier, desdeigncr, 
desdegner, F. dedaigner = Pr. desdcgnar = Sp. 
desdenar = Pg. desdenhar = It. disdegnare, sde- 
gnare, disdain, < L. dis- priv. + dignari, deign, disdeignt (dis-dan'), v. An obsolete spelling 
think worthy, < dignus, worthy : see deign, and o f disdain 
dainty, ult. = dignity.] I. trans. 1. To think disdiaclast (dis-di'a-klast), n. [Irreg. < Gr. &'? 
unworthy or worthless; reject as unworthy of (j n com p. prop. it-\ twice, + Mia/Oaoror, as- 
notice or of one's own character; look upon F - - - - -- - 
with contempt and aversion; contemn; de- 
spise : as, to disdain a mean action. 
His clownish gifts and curtsies I disdaine. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., January. 
Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with 
the dogs of my flock. Job xxx 1 
The bloody proclamation to escape 
. . . taught me to shift 
Into a madman's rags .; to assume a semblance 
That very dogs disdain'd. Shak., Lear, v. 3. 
Remembre howe disdaynousli/e and lothsomly they are 
pleased wy th gyftes that haue tliys homelye adage in theyr 
mouthes, he geueth me a pygge of myne owne sowe. 
Up. Bale, Apology, Pref. 
sumed verbal adj. of SiaMv, break in twain, 
< 6ia, through, + xAac, break.] A name given 
ract- 
There is nothing that my Nature disdains more than to 
be a Slave to Silver or Gold. Howell, Letters, I. vi. eo. 
2f. To fill with scorn or contempt. 
by Briicke to hypothetical small doubly rein 
ing elements, of which he supposed the anisot- 
ropous disks of striated muscle to be composed. 
disdiaclastic (dis-di-a-klas'tik), a. [As disdi- 
aclast + -ic.] Doubly refractive: an epithet 
applied to disdiaclasts. 
disdiapason (dis-di-a-pa'zon), n. [LL., < Gr. 
(TO) <!if ita, iraauv, disdiapason: <!ir, twice (see 
<jj- 2 ) ; ita waaav: see diapason.] In medieval 
music, the interval of a double octave or fif- 
teenth. 
' Charite, " he seith, " is p_acient, 
Alle disesis meekli suffringe." 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 115. 
We sail noght here doute to do hym disesse, 
But with conntenaunce full cruell 
We sail crake her his croune. York Plays, p. 124. 
All that night they past in great disease, 
Till that the morning, bringing earely light 
To guide inens labours, brought them also ease. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. v. 40. 
2. In pathol. : (a) In general, a morbid, pain- 
ful or otherwise distressing physical condition, 
acute or chronic, which may result either in 
death or in a more or less complete return to 
health ; deviation from the healthy or normal 
condition of any of the functions or tissues of 
the body. 
Disease ... is a perturbation of the normal activities 
of a living body. Huxley, Biol. Sci. and Med. 
Specifically (6) An individual case of such a 
morbid condition ; the complex series of patho- 
logical conditions causally related to one an- 
other exhibited by one person during one period 
of illness ; an attack of sickness. 
Yet, through a life which was one long disease, the 
force of his [William of Orange's] mind never failed, on 
any great occasion, to bear up his suffering and languid 
body. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
(c) A special class of morbid conditions group- 
ed together as exhibiting the same or similar 
phenomena (symptoms, course, result), as af- 
fecting the same organs, or as due to the same 
causes : as, the diseases of the lungs, as pneu- 
monia, consumption ; the diseases of the brain. 
The forms of expression used in reference to cases of dis- 
ease are largely framed on the old fanciful conception of 
them as substantive things entering into and possessing 
for the time being the person of the patient. 
As every climate has its peculiar diseases, so every walk 
of life has its peculiar temptations. 
Macaulay, Boswell's Johnson. 
3. Any disorder or depraved condition or ele- 
ment, moral, mental, social, or political. 
An 't please you, it is the disease of not listening, the 
malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. 
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they 
are good for us, because they discover to us our disease 
and tend to our cure. Tillotson, Works, I. ix. 
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into 
the public councils have, in truth, been the mortal dis- 
ease* under which popular governments have everywhere 
perished. Madison. 
Addlson's disease, a disease characterized by a flbro- 
caseous metamorphosis of the suprarenal capsules, a 
brownish-olive coloration of the skin, anemia, and pros- 
tration : first described by Thomas Addison, an English 
physician (1793-1880). Also called suprarenal melaxina 
and bronzed-skin disease. Animals' Contagious Dis- 
eases Acts, English statutes of 1867 (30 and 31 Viet., c. 
125), 1869 (32 and 33 Viet., c. 70), 1875 (38 and 39 Viet., c. 
75), and 1878 (41 and 42 Viet., c. 74), for the protection of 
cattle from disease ; and one of 1884 (47 and 48 Viet., c. 
13), regulating the lauding and transportation of animals 
from foreign countries. Basedow's disease, exophthal- 
mic goiter (which see, xmder exophthalmic). Bell's dis- 
ease [from Luther V. Bell, an American physician, 1806- 
62], a form of acute cerebral disease, characterized by 
maniacal delirium succeeded by apathy and coma, accom- 
panied by fever, and exhibiting anatomically more or 
less superficial encephalitis. Also called periencephalitis, 
mania grams, and typhomania. Brlght'S disease, a 
disease, or group of diseases, first described in 1827 by 
Richard Bright, an English physician (1789-1858). The 
name is usually applied to forms of kidney disease charac- 
terized by albuminuria and general dropsy. Anatomical- 
ly, in the chronic forms, several types may be distinguish- 
ed : (1) parenchymatous nephritis, principally marked by 
a disturbance of nutrition in the epithelial cells ; (2) inter- 
stitial nephritis, by inflammation of the interstitial con- 
nective tissue ; (3) lardaceous infiltration ; (4) diffuse ne- 
phritis. Acute Bright's disease may present the anatomi- 
cal characters of diffuse or parenchymatous nephritis, or 
may leave no distinct changes in the renal tissue (exuda- 
tive nephritis). Brodie's disease [named after Sir Ben- 
jamin C. Brodie, 1783-1882], a chronic synovitis, in which 
the subsynovial tissues have become much thickened and 
soft. Also called pulpy disease of the synorial membrane. 
Charcot's disease.' () Multiple (derate of the cere- 
brospinal axis, (b) Certain inflammatory conditions of 
joints attendant on locomotor ataxia. Contagious Dis- 
eases Acts, English statutes of 1866 (29 and 30 Viet., c. 
36) and 1869 (32 and 33 Viet., c. 96), for the control of ve- 
nereal diseases at certain naval and military stations in 
England and Ireland. Corrigan's disease, aortic re- 
gnrifitation.- Fish-skin disease. SeeicMhuosit. Foot- 
and-mouth disease. See foot. Functional disease, 
