disfellowship 
disfellowshiu 
and 
16C2 
s-for'mi-ti), . 
[A "restored* 
"lowshin, 1:] ' To exclude from fellowship ; "re- regular form, 
fuse to have intercourse with : used especially Uniformity or ditformity in comparing together the re- 
of a person or a church excluded from religious "pective figures of bodies, 
fellowship by formal action. [U. S.] disfranchise (dis-fran chiz), v. t. 
disfen (dig-fen'), v. t.; pret. and pp. disfenned, disfranchised, ppr.^w/rancfcwwi/, 
ppr. disfenning. [< dis- priv. + fen.] To change 
from the character of a fen. [Bare.] 
Disfenned, or stripped of peat. Eneyc. Brit., XII. 62. 
disfiguratet, a. [ME. disfigurat, < ML. "disfigu- 
E. disfraunchyse; < dis- priv. + franchise.] To 
disgrace 
We have ouitc dimnrnished that kingdom [Ireland) of 
troops. Walpole, Letters, II. 431. 
disgarrispn (dis-gar'i-son), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
garrison.] To deprive of a garrison. [Bare.] 
Be thou our king : set up thy throne in our hearts ; dis- 
mantle, and ditgarritun, all the strong holds and fortifi- 
cations of sin. Heicyt, Prayer bef. Sermon. 
disgavel (dis-gav'el), v. t. ; pret. and pp. disgav- 
elled, ppr. disgavelling. [< dis- priv. + gavel 1 .] 
In Eng. law, to relieve (land) from the law of 
ratus, pp. of *disfigurare: see disfigure.] Dis- 
figured; deformed. Chaucer. 
disfiguration (dis-fig-u-ra'shqn), n. [= OF. 
Formerly some- 
right of voting in elections. 
times written diffranchise. 
Suppose woman, though equal, to differ essentially in 
LKU.BIU... <* v o - *-*-- - her intellect from man is that any ground for dufran- 
desfiguration, deffiguration = Sp. desfiguracion chisingtierl W. Phillips, Speeches, p. 20. 
= Pg. desfigurafSo =_ It disfigurazione, < ML. disfranchisement (dis-fran'chiz-ment), n. [< disgeneric (dis-je-ner'ik), a 
A large number of properties were disgavelled in Kent by 
statute in the reign of Henry the Eighth, upon the peti- 
tion of the owners. In the same reign all the lands in 
Wales were disgavelled. But the rights of the tenants do 
not appear to have been injured by the new legislation. 
W. K. Sullivan, Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. clxxxiv. 
K, pp. utfjtgwrnr disfranchise T -JMCTH.J me act 01 - generic.] rseionging 10 u sni, gcuera, us 
1. The act of dis- j n g ) or t ne state of being disfranchised; depri- O r more species; not of the same genus as an- 
nal form of ; de- va tion of the privileges of a free citizen, or of other species : the opposite of congeneric. 
KniTlcr fllflficniTfin I . T I i~ ....,.,...>.. i \ ..,, f\f r\f o/vm A WQ vf.io- ,1 1 r, * r,4- L / ,\ ', , -1*10*-' \ a* t rVoi* f\f riin0Qt T I 1 A 
*disfiguratio(n-)', < * disfigxrare, pp. 
tus, disfigure: see disfigure.'] 1.1 
figuring or marring the external 
facement. 2. The state of being disfigured 
disfigurement; deformity. 
One thing that often leads to disfiguration of the land- 
scape is the manner and form in which the planting [of 
trees for shelter] is originally done. 
Set. Amer., July 19, 1884. 
disfigure (dis-fig'ur), v. t.; pret. and pp. dis- 
figured, ppr. disfiguring. [< ME. disfiguren, < 
OF. desfigurer (also defignrer, F. defigurer; cf. disfriart (dis-fri'ar), v. t. [< dis- priv. + friar.] 
defigure)=Sp.Pg.desfigurar = lt.disfigurare, TO depose from" being a friar; divest of the 
office and privileges of a friar; unfrock. 
That ouer-great severity would cause a great number to 
disfriar themselves, and fly to Geneva. 
[< dis- priv. 
disfigura- disfranchise + -went.] The act of ctisfranchis- generic.] Belonging to different genera, as two 
t. [Var. of digest.] To 
Who can disrjcst a Spaniard, that's a true Englishman? 
Dekker and Webster, Sir Thomas Wyat, p. 40. 
membership in a corporation, or of some partic- disgestt (dis-jesf), v. 
ular immunity or privilege, especially that of digest. Bacon. 
voting. Formerly sometimes written diffran- 
chisement. 
D'ufranchisement is as great folly as applied to the disgestiont (dis-jes'tyon), n. [Var. of diges- 
whites, as omission to enfranchise is wickedness toward jj on- J Digestion, lidcon. 
S%V,quotedin M erria m 'sLifeof Bowles, 11.30. disgiorify (dis-glo'ri-fi), ,. t. , pret. and pp. dis- 
glorified, ppr. dtxglonfytng. [< dis- priv. + glon- 
fy.] To deprive of glory ; treat with indignity, 
sfigurare, < ML. *disfigurare, < L. dis- priv. + 
figurare, fashion, form : see figure, v. and n.] 
1. To mar the external figure of; impair the 
shape or form of; injure the beauty, symmetry, 
or excellence of; deface; deform, either actu- disfurnish 
ally or by incongruous addition. 
So abject is their punishment, 
Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own ; 
Or if his likeness, by themselves defaced. 
MUton, P. L., xi. 521. 
Gaudy ribbons and glaring colours being now out of use, 
the sex has no opportunity given them to disfigure them- 
selves, which they seldom fail to do whenever it lies in 
their power. Steele, Tatler, No. 151. 
It cannot be denied that his (Petrarch's] merits were die- 
figured by a most unpleasant affectation. 
Macaulay, Petrarch. 
2f. To carve : said of a peacock. 
So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, 
Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, 
Disqlorified. blasphemed, and had in scorn. 
MUton, S. A., 1. 442. 
SlrS. Sandy,, State of E ligion. ^ j (dis . gl6 - ri)) . [< dis . priv . + 
ish (dis-fer'msh), v. t. [< dis- priv. + Deprivation of glory ; dishonor, 
i.] To deprive or divest of furmshment; God . 8 name Nor 
- - * a 
furnish. _ 
strip of or cause to be without adjuncts or be- 
Di/sfygure that pecocke. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 265. 
whereof they complaine themselues to bee disfurni 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 699. 
I am a thing obscure, disfurnish'd of 
All merit. Massinger, The Picture, iii. 5. 
I found the house altogether dis/nrnish'd, and his books 
packing up. Evelyn, Diary, Hay 7, 1691. 
The Indians showed a far greater natural predisposi- 
tion for diqfurnixhinif the outside of other people's heads 
than for furnishing the insides of their own. 
Lowell, Oration, Harvard, Nov. 8, 1886. 
3f. To disguise, especially by putting on infe- disfenisbjnent (dis-fer'nish-ment), n. [< di 
Sor habiliments. f r h + -?'..'] .T h . e ^ , of disf urnishmg, < 
So slyly and so welc I shal me gye, 
And me so wel disfigure, and so lowe, 
That in this world ther shall no man me knowe. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2046. 
=Syn. 1. Cripple, Mangle, etc. See mutilate. 
disfiguret, [< ME. disfigure, v.] Disfigure- 
ment; deformity. Chaucer. 
disfigurement (dis-fig'ur-ment), n. [= F. de- 
figurement; as disfigure + -ment.] 1. The act 
of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; 
blemish; defacement; change of external form 
for the worse. 
And they, so perfect is their misery, 
Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, 
But boast themselves more comely than before. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 74. 
Grace doth us this good office, by a detecting to us the 
nakedness of our nature, not by a covering and palliation 
of her disfigurements. 
W. Montague, Devoute Essays, I. vi. 2. 
2. Something that disfigures. 
Uncommon expressions . . are a disfigurement rather 
than any embellishment of discourse. Hume, Essays, xx. 
This building, lately cleared from the disfigurements and 
partition of its profane use, forms one of the noblest round 
churches to be found. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 133. 
:'ur-er), n. One who disfigures. 
the state of being disfurnished. 
Early in life he found himself invested with ample rev- 
enues ; which ... he took almost immediate measures 
entirely to dissipate and bring to nothing. . . . Thus fur- 
nished by the very act of disfurnishment, ... he set 
forth, like some Alexander, upon his great enterprise, 
"borrowing and to borrow." Lamb, Elia, p. 46. 
disfurnituret (dis-fer'ni-tur), n. A disfurnish- 
ing; removal; deprivation. 
We may consequently, with much ease, bear the diffur- 
niture of such transitory movables as were rather orna- 
ments then materials of our fabrick. 
W. Montague, Devoute Essays, II. viii. 3. 
disgaget (dis-gaj'), v. t. [< dis- priv. + gage; 
cf. OF. desgager, disengage, < des- priv. + gager, 
:glory of God's name. Iforthbrooke. 
disgorge (dis-g6rj'), " *! pret. and pp. dis- 
gorged, ppr. disgorging. [< OF. desgorger, F. 
degorger, bring up from the throat, vomit, clear 
out, disgorge (= It. sgorgare, disgorge, over- 
flow), < des-, away, + gorge, throat : see dis- and 
gorge, v.] 1. To eject or throw out from, or as 
if from, the stomach, throat, or mouth; vomit 
forth ; discharge ; pour out : generally with an 
implication of force or violence. 
The deep-drawing barks do there disgorge 
Their warlike fraughtage. Shak., T. and C., ProL 
The empire, 
In which thou liv'st a strong continu'd surfeit, 
Like poison will disgorge thee. 
Beau, and Fl., Valentinian, iii. 1. 
To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. 
Dryden. 
Four infernal rivers, that disgorge 
Into the burning lake their baleful streams. 
Milton, P. L., ii. 575. 
The barbarous North disgorged her ambitious savages 
on Europe. Everett, Orations, I. 124. 
2. To give up, as something that has been 
taken wrongfully; surrender: as, he disgorged 
his ill-gotten gains. 
That which ... no miscreant or malefactor . . . was 
ever so desperate as to disgorge in contempt of so fruit- 
fully received customs, is now their voice that restore as 
they say the ancient purity of religion. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 64. 
5- LIU V . I I/ It I/O/ . 
pledge: see"ds- and gage^. Cf. degage and disgorgement (dis-g6rj'ment), n. [< OF. des- 
disengage.] To free or release from pledge or gorgement, F. dcgorgement = It. sgorgamento; 
pawn; redeem. 
He taketh those who had lever lay to gage and pawn 
their goods, and remain under the burden of usury, than 
to sell up all and disgage themselves at once. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 232. 
allantt (dis-gal'ant), 11. t. [< dis- priv. + 
it.] To strip or divest of gallantry, cou- 
rage, or confidence. 
Sir, let not this discountenance or disgallant you a whit ; 
you must not sink under the first disaster. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 1. 
r- priv. 
as disgorge + -m'ent^] The act of disgorging. 
The very presses are openly defiled with the most 
loathsome disgorgements of their wicked blasphemies. 
Bp. Hall, Remains, p. 162. 
disgorger (dis-gor'jer), n. A device for remov- 
" from the mouth of a fish. It 
the barbed point, thus enabling the hook to be 
withdrawn. 
isgospelt (dis-gos'pel), *. (. [< dis- priv. + 
gospel.] To manage or treat in a way incon- 
sistent with the precepts or doctrines of the 
gospel; deprive of a gospel character. 
Who possesse huge Benefices for lazie performances, 
great promotions only for the execution of a cruell dis- 
gospellinq jurisdiction. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
disfigurer (dis-1 
disflesh (dis-flesh' ), v. t. [< dis- priv. + flesh.] disgarlandt (dis-gar'land), v. t. [< 
To deprive of flesh ; render less fleshy. + garland.] To divest of a garland. 
The best is, said theother, not to run, that the lean strain Forsake thy pipe, a sceptre take to thee, 
not himself with too much weight, nor the fat man disfiesh Thy locks disgarland. Drmnmond, Songs, ii. 13. 
himself. Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, IV. xxv. disgamish (dis-gar'nish), i\ t. [< ME. disgar- 
disfoliage (dis-fo'li-aj), v. t. ; pret. and pp. dis- nishen, < OF. desgarniss-, stem of certain parts 
foliaged, ppr. disfoliaging. [< dis- priv. + foli- of desgarnir, desguarnir, F. degarnir (= Pr. disgownt (dis-goun'), v. i. [< rf/s-priv. + gown.] 
age.] To deprive or strip of foliage. desgarnir, desguarn ir = Sp. Pg. desguarnecer = To divest one's self of a clerical gown ; hence, 
It. sguernire),< des- priv. + garnir, garnish: see to renounce holy orders. 
dis- and garnish.] To strip or divest, as of some- 
thing that garnishes or furnishes ; disfurnish ; 
degarnish. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Ffor thei wolde not disgarmjssh the londe of peple. 
In winter the tempering influence of the pine-forest pre- 
ponderated over that of the disfoliaffed forest. 
Science, V. 352. 
disforest (dis-for'est), v. t. [< dis- priv. + for- 
est. Cf. disafforest.] 1. Same as disafforest. 
The Crown forests, with the exception of the New For- 
est, having almost all been disforested. 
The American, VII. 85. 
2. To strip of forest ; clear of trees, as a wooded 
tract; destroy the forests of, as a country or 
region. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 291. 
Also ther were xx kynges that after that thei herde that 
Then, desiring to be a convert, he was reconciled to the 
Church of Rome ; so he disgomitd and put on a sword. 
Roger North, Examen, p. 222. 
[< OF. disgrace, dis- 
disgrace (dis-gras'), n. . . 
grace, ill favor, ill fortune, F. disgrace = Sp. 
desgracia = Pg. dtsgraca = It. disgrazia, 
If your master haue loumg frendes and faithful sub- 
iectes, I am, thanke God, notdisgarnislied nor vnproiiided 
of the same. 
, i i A on4- *>.; 
islied nor vnproiiided 6 : see dls - a " d ffracc.] 1. A state of being 
Hall, Hen. v., an. 2. out of favor; exclusion from favor, confidence, 
