disease 
a term applied to a disease when no anatomical change 
can IK; found in the tissues involved. Tfiuinuti, Mcd. 
Diet. Graves'B disease, same as /;.ci /'.< disease. 
Hip-Joint disease, carie* "I lh>- bones forming the hip- 
juint. Also called nutrljus cofdriitx. Hodgkin'S dis- 
ease, pseudo-leucocythemiu. Hydrocephaloid, larda- 
ceous, etc., disease. See the adjectives. Plant-dis- 
ease, an abnormal condition in plants, produced in nm t 
cases hy insects or parasitic fuii^ r i. The principal injuries 
which they produce are destruction of tissues and nutri- 
tive materials, impairment of assimilative power, and dis- 
tortion. Pott's disease, caries of the spinal column, pro- 
ducing angular curvature. -Raynaud's disease, a dis- 
ease characterized by local spasm of the small vessels, 
more or less completely obstructing the circulation of the 
part, and often leading to gangrene. The parts affected 
are symmetrically placed, the tips of the Angers and toc 
being most apt to be attacked. It belongs especially to 
middle life, and affects predominantly the female Bex. It 
Is not fatal. Also called tqtintnetrical gangrene and local 
asphyxia. Stationary diseases, a name given by some 
authorities to certain diseases which depend upon a par- 
ticular state of the atmosphere, and prevail in a district 
for a certain number of years, and then give way to oth- 
ers. Dungliwn. 'me black disease, the black plague 
or pestilence, the morbux niger of the Latin writers : same 
as the black death (which see, under death). Wool-sort- 
ers' disease. Same as inatfifnant anthrax (which see, 
under anthrax). [ For special classes of diseases, see acute, 
chronic, endemic, enthetic, epidemic, occult, organic, zymot- 
ic, etc. | = Syn. 2. Indisposition, Infirmity, Distemper, Mal- 
ady, Disease, ailment, illness, complaint. Most of these 
words are weaker and more general than disease. Indis- 
position Is light and temporary. Infirmity is disabling, 
often local, and perhaps permanent, and is not always 
properly a morbid condition : as, the infirmity of deaf- 
ness ; the infirmity of old age. There is a tendency to re- 
strict distemper to animals, but it may still be applied to 
hum m beings. It is a morbid state of a part or the whole 
of the body. Malady is a lingering, deep-seated, unman- 
ageable, painful, or fatal disorder. Disease is a definite 
morbid condition, commonly of serions character and gen- 
erally active : as, his disease proved to be typhoid fever. 
See debility and illness. 
The king neither can nor ought to absent himself from 
his parlamcnt, unless he be really indisposed in health ; 
nor then neither, till twelve of the peers have been with 
him to inspect his body, and give the parlament an ac- 
count of his intliniiosition. 
Milton, A Defence of the People of England. 
Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends ; 
I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing 
To those that know me. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, 
But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long. 
Dryden and Lee, CEdipus, iv. 1. 
We must not 
So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, 
To prostitute our past-cure malady 
To empirics. Shak., All's Well, ii. 1. 
The remedy Is worse than the disease. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, )tvi. SI. 
disease (di-zez'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. diseased, 
ppr. diseasing. [< ME. disesen, < OF. desaiser 
= Pr. dezaisir = It. disagiare, make uneasy; 
from the noun.] If. To make uneasy; pain; 
distress. 
The flode was come a-gein that gretly hem disesed, and 
with grete peyne thei passed the greves and com a-gein to 
the hoste. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), iii. 649. 
His double burden did him sore disease. 
Spenser, V. Q., II. 11. 12. 
List ! fast asleep ; 
... I must disease yon straight, sir. 
Hiddleton, The Witch, iv. 3. 
The sweet afflictions that disease me. Carem, Song. 
2. To affect with disease ; make ill ; disorder 
the body or mind of : used chiefly or only in the 
passive voice or the past participle. 
He was diseased in body and mind. Macaulay. 
diseasedness (di-ze'zed-nes), . The state of 
being diseased ; a morbid state ; sickness. 
This Is a restoration to some former state ; not that 
state of iudigency and dixeanedness. 
T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth, 
diseasefult (di-zez'ful), a. [< disease + -ful, 1.] 
1. Occasioning uneasiness; troublesome. 
Where the majesty of the king's house draws recourse 
and access, it is both disgraceful to the king and disease- 
fid to the people If the ways near abouts be not fair and 
good. Bacon, Charge upon the Commission for the Verge. 
2. Abounding with disease ; diseased. 
Yf his bodye were neglected, it is like that his languish- 
ing sowle, being disquieted by his diieasefiill bodye, would 
utterly refuse and lothe all spirituall comforte. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
3. Producing disease : as, a disease/ill climate. 
Then famine, want, and pain, 
Sunk to the grave their fainting limbs ; but us, 
Diseaxeful dainties, riot and excess, 
And feverish luxury destroy. 
T. Warton, The Enthusiast. 
diseasefulnesst (di-zez'ful-nes), n. The state 
of being diseaseful. 
But as before the consideration of a prison had dis- 
graced all ornaments, so now the same consideration 
made them attend all disease/nines*. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
diseasementt (di-zez'ment), n. [< disease + 
-ment.] Uneasiness; Inconvenience. 
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For it is not probable that men of great means anil plen- 
tiful estate will endure the travel, dueaieineiits, and ad- 
ventures of going thither In person. 
Bacon, Plantations in Ireland. 
diseasyt, n. [< ME. disesy, < disesc, uneasiness : 
see disease, n.] Uneasy. 
AH the dales of a pore man ben yvele Ivar. dittsi/]. 
Wycl\f, Prov. xv. la (Purv.). 
disedge (dis-ej'), v. t.; pret. and pp. disedged, 
ppr. disedging. [< din- priv. + edge.] To de- 
prive of an edge ; blunt; make dull. [Bare.] 
I hold him prudent that in these fastidious times will 
helpe disedged appetites with convenient condiments. 
K. Ward, Simple Cooler, p. BO. 
Served a little to disedge 
The sharpness of that pain about her heart. 
Tennyion, Geraint. 
disedification (dis-ed'i-fi-ka'shon), n. [< dig- 
edify: see -fy and -atton. Cf. edification.] The 
act of disedifying; a scandal. [Rare.] 
Cardinal Wiseman, in his "Lectures on the Principal 
Doctrines and Practices of the Catholic Church," delivered 
in 1836, speaks of "Disedification committed before the 
church." N. andQ., 7th ser., III. 408. 
disedify (dis-ed'i-fi), r. t. [< dis- priv. + edify. 
Cf. OF. desedifier, demolish, destroy, of like 
formation, in lit. sense.] To fail of edifying ; 
impart false doctrine to. Warburton. 
The " Church Times " of March 4, 1887, tells Its readers 
that " such an admission is disedifying to Roman Catho- 
lics " (p. 109, col. 3). N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 408. 
disembargo (dis-em-bar'go), v. t. [< dis- priv. 
+ embargo.] To release from embargo. 
disembark (dis-em-bark'), v. [Formerly also 
disimbark; < OF. desembarquer, F. desembarquer 
(= Sp. Pg. desembarcar = It. disimbarcare), dis- 
embark, < des- priv. + embarquer, embark: 
see dis- and embark. Cf. disbark*, debark.] I. 
trans. To debark; remove from on board a ship 
to the land; unload; put on shore; land: as, 
the general disembarked the troops at sunrise. 
Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers. 
Shak., Othello, II. 1. 
H. intrans. To land from a ship ; go on shore, 
as at the end of a voyage. 
There Is a report current to the effect that the next di- 
vision will not disembark at Malta. 
W. H. Russell, The War, I. 
disembarkation (dis-em-bar-ka'shon), n. I = 
Sp. (obs.) desembarcacion = Pg. dese'mbarcafSo ; 
as disembark + -ation.] The act of disembark- 
ing. 
disembarkment (dis-em-bark'ment), n. [< F. 
desembarquement ; as disembark + -ment.] The 
act of disembarking. 
disembarrass (dis-em-bar'as), v. t. [< OF. des- 
embarrasser, F. desembarasser (= Sp. desembara- 
zar = Pg. desembarayar = It. disimbarazzare), 
disentangle, < des- priv. + embarrasser, embar- 
rass: see dis- and embarrass. Cf. debarrass.] 
To free from embarrassment, or from anything 
that causes embarrassment; clear; extricate: 
as, her affability completely disembarrassed 
him ; to disembarrass one of a load of care, or 
of a load of parcels. 
We have disembarrassed it of all the intricacy which 
arose from the different forms of declension, of which the 
Romans had no fewer than five. Blair, Rhetoric, viii. 
Thus disembarrassed of the most formidable means of 
annoyance, the French monarch went briskly forward 
with his preparations. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., il. 10. 
= Syn. Disentangle, Release, etc. See disengage. 
disembarrassment (dis-em-bar'as-ment), n. 
The act of extricating, or the state of being 
extricated, from embarrassment, or from any- 
thing that embarrasses. 
disembattled (dis-em-bat'ld), a. [< dis- priv. 
+ embattled 2 .] Deprived of battlements. 
It [the wall of Chester) is the gentlest and least offen- 
sive of ramparts, and completes its long irregular curve 
without a frown or menace in all its disembattled stretch. 
H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 9. 
- em- 
disembroil 
Encourage such innocent amusement* u 
/</ tin- minds of men. 
disembayt (dis-em-ba'), . t. [< dis- priv. 
bay.] To navigate clear out of a bay. 
The fair inamorata . . . 
Had spy'd the ship, which her heart's treasure bare, 
Put off from land : and now quite disembay'd, 
Her cables coiled, and her anchors weigh'd, 
Whilst gentle gales her swelling sails did court. 
Sherburne, Forsaken Lydia. 
disembellish (dis-em-bel'ish), t). t. [Formerly 
also diKimbi-llish; < OF. desembelliss-, stem of 
certain parts of desembellir, F. desembellir (of. 
Sp. desembellecer), disfigure, < des- priv. + t m- 
bellir, embellish : see dis- and embellish.] To 
deprive of embellishment. Carli/lr. 
disembitter (dis-em-bit'er), v. t. [< dis- priv. 
4- embitter.] To free from bitterness; clear 
from acrimony; render sweet or pleasant. 
euU u may dwmbit- 
Additon, Freeholder. 
disembodiment (dis-em-bod'i-mcnt), n. K dis- 
f/it buily + -ment.] 1 . The act of disembodying. 
2. The condition of being disembodied. 
disembody (dis-em-bod'i), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
difflliiMlil:<l, ]>]'. lli.trmlMMlj/iHl/. [< ilix- I't'iv. 4- 
embody. ] 1 . To divest of body ; free from flesh. 
How shall I know thec in the sphere that keeps 
The disembodied spirits of the dead ? Bryant. 
Mr. Spencer asserts that all forms of religious sentiment 
spring from the primitive Idea of a disembodied double of 
a dead man. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 308. 
2. To discharge from military incorporation ; 
disarm (a military body) and release from ser- 
vice for a specified period : as, the militia was 
disembodied. 
disembogue (dis-em-bog'), . ; pret. and pp. 
disembogued, ppr. disemboguing. [Formerly 
disemboque; < Sp. desembocar (= Pg. desem- 
bocar), disembogue, < des- priv. + emoocar (= 
Pg. embocar), enter by the mouth, or by a nar- 
row passage : see dis- and embogue.] I. trans. 
To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a 
stream ; hence, to vent ; cast forth or eject. 
Indus, which diuideth it in the middle, . . . after nine 
hundred miles iourney, with two nautgable mouths (ft* 
eiHbo<iuiiuj it selfe into the Ocean. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 479. 
If I get in adoors, not the power o' th' country, 
Nor my aunt's curses, shall disembogue me. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night- Walker, v. 1. 
Two ships' lading of these precious saints [German re- 
formers) was disembogued In Scotland, where they set up 
again, and broached anew their pernicious principles. 
Dryden, Postcript to Hist, of League. 
Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, 
And through nine channels disembogues his waves. 
Addion. 
U. intrans. 1. To flow out, as at the mouth ; 
become discharged ; gain a vent : as, innumer- 
able rivers disembogue into the ocean. 
This River, though but small, yet it is big enough for 
Pereagoes to enter. It disembogues on the South side, 
near the middle of the Lagune. 
Dumpier, Voyages, II. 11. 51. 
Volcanoes bellow ere they disembogue. Young. 
2. Naut., to pass across, or out of the mouth 
of, a river, gulf, or bay, as a ship. 
My ships ride in the bay, 
Ready to disembogue, tackled and rnami'd 
Even to my wishes. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, i. 3. 
disemboguement (dis-em-bog'ment), n. [< 
disembogue + -ment.] Discharge, as of the wa- 
ter of a river into the ocean or a lake. Smart. 
disemboquet, r. An obsolete form of disembogue. 
disembosom (dis-em-biiz'um), v. t. [< dis- 
priv. + embosom.] To separate from the bosom. 
Uninjur'd from our praise can He escape, 
Who, disembosom'd from the Father, bows 
The heaven of heavens, to kiss the distant earth ? 
Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 
disembowel (dis-em-bou'el), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
disemboweled or disembowelled, ppr. disembowel- 
ing or disembowelling. [< rfis-priv. + embowel.] 
1. To deprive of the bowels, or of parts anal- 
ogous to the bowels ; eviscerate : as, to disem- 
bowel a carcass; to disembowel a book by tear- 
ing out leaves. 2. To wound in the abdomen 
in such a manner as to permit the bowels to pro- 
trude or escape, as in suicide by hara-kiri. 
3. To take or draw from the bowels, as the 
web of a spider. [Kare.] 
So her dwembowelFd web 
Arachne in a hall or kitchen spreads, 
Obvious to vagrant flies. 
J. Philips, The Splendid Shilling. 
disembowelment(dis-em-bou'el-ment), n. The 
act or process of disemboweling ; evisceration. 
One woman will eviscerate about two dozen of herrings 
in a minute ; and when nearly 2000 of them are working 
. . . the amount of disembowelment may be more easily 
imagined than described. Encyc. Brit., IX. 259. 
disembower (dis-em-bou'er), v. t. [< dis- priv. 
+ embower.] To remove from or deprive of a 
bower. Bryant. 
disembranglet (dis-em-brang'gl), v. t. [< dis- 
priv. + embrangle.] To free from litigation; 
free from dispute, squabbling, or quarreling. 
For God's sake di-sembrangle these matters, that I may 
be at ease to mind my own affairs. 
Bp. Berkeley, Letters, p. 109. 
disembroil (dis-em-broil'), v. t. [< di*- priv. 
+ embroil.] To free from broil or confusion ; 
extricate from confusion or perplexity; dis- 
entangle. 
It is by this means that Monsieur Vaillant has disem- 
broiled a history that was lost to the world before his 
time, and out of a short collection of medals has given us 
a chronicle of the kings of Syria. 
Aiditon, Ancient Medals, i. 
