disoblige 
Your sister here, that never disobliged me in her life. 
Ooldtmith, Good-natured Man, i. 
2. To incommode ; put to inconvenience. [Col- 
loq.] 
" I nra rambling about the country," said he, " and pur- 
sue whatever is novel and interesting, and hope my pres- 
ence, Madam, will not disoblige you.' 
S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 1. 
3f. To release from obligation. 
The taking of priestly orders disobliges the suscipient 
from receiving chrism or confirmation. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 401. 
No unkindness of a brother can wholly rescind that re- 
lation, or disoblige us from the duties annexed thereto. 
Barrow, Sennons, I. xxx. 
disobligement (dis-o-blij'ment), n. [< diso- 
blige + -meat.] The act of disobliging. Milton. 
To the great disobligement [said Mr. Bacon], as we had 
reason to know, of some of his [Gallatin's] strong political 
friends at that time. H. Adams, Albert Gallatin, p. 450. 
disobliger (dis-o-bll' jer), n. One who disobliges. 
disobliging (dis-o-bli'jing), p. a. [Ppr. of dis- disorder Jdis-or'der), v. t. [< OF. desordrer, 
oblige, v.] Not obliging; not disposed to please 
or to gratify the wishes of another; unaccom- 
modating : as, a disobliging landlord. 
disobligingly (dis-o-bli'jing-li), adv. In a dis- 
obliging manner ; churlishly. 
He could not but well remember how foully that busi- 
ness had been managed, and how disobligingly be himself 
had been treated by that ambassadour. * 
Clarendon, Civil War, I. 14. 
disobligingness (dis-o-bll'jing-nes), n. Unwill- 
ingness to oblige ; want of readiness to please 
or accommodate. 
disoccident (dis-ok'si-dent), v. t. [< dis- priv. 
+ accident.] 1. To throw out of reckoning as 
to the west. Hence 2. To confuse as to di- 
rection in general. 
Perhaps some roguing boy that managed the puppets 
turn'd the city wrong, and so disoccidented our geographer. 
Manell, Works, III. 39. 
disOCCUpation (dis-ok-u-pa'shon), n. [= P. 
desoccupation = Sp. desocupacion'-= Pg. desoccu- 
disown 
orderly or regular way, as the functions of the 
body. = Syn. 1. Confused, jumbled. 2 and 3. Riotous, 
vicious. See irregular. 
disorderly (di's-or'der-li), adr. [< disorderly, 
a.] 1. Without order, rule, or method ; irreg- 
ularly; confusedly; in a disordered manner. 
Savages lighting disorderly with stones. Raleigh. 
2. In a manner violating law and good order; 
in a manner contrary to rules or established in- 
stitutions. 
Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh 
disorderly. 2 Thes. iii. 6. 
disordinancet, n. [ME. disordinance, < OF. des- 
ordenance, deaordonnance (= Pg. desordenanga 
= It. disordinanza), < desordener, disorder : see 
disorder, v., and cf. disordinate and ordinance.] 
Disarrangement ; disturbance. 
For right as reson is rebel to God. right so is sensualitee 
rebel to reson, and the body also, and certes this disordi- 
nance, and this rebellion, our Lord Jesu Christ abought 
upon his precious body ful dere. Chaucer, Parson's Tale, 
var. of desordener, desordoner, desordonner = disordinate (dis-6r'di-nat), a. [< ME. disordi- 
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ment; properly, a diseased state of either mind 
or body that does not wholly disable the facul- 
ties ; but it is often applied more comprehen- 
sively. 
The following lines upon delirious dreams may appear 
very extravagant to a reader who never experienced the 
disorders which sickness causes in the brain. 
Thompson, Sickness, iii., note. 
5. A specific or particular case of disorder; a 
disease; a derangement, mental or physical: 
as, gout is a painful disorder. 6. Mental per- 
turbation ; temporary excitement or discom- 
posure; agitation. 
I will not keep this form upon my head, 
When there is such disorder in my wit. 
Shak., K. John, iii. 4. 
She looked with wistful disorder for some time in my 
face. Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 112. 
= Syn. 1. Disarrangement, disorganization, disarray, jum- 
ble. 2. Commotion, turbulence, riotousness. 4 and 5. 
Illness, ailment, complaint, malady. 
Sp. Pg. desordenar = It. disordinare, < ML. 
disordinare (found also as disordonare, counter- 
mand), throw into disorder, < L. dis- priv. + 
ordinare, order, regulate : see dis- and order, v., 
and cf. disordinate.'] 1. To destroy or derange 
the order of; derange; disturb the regular dis- 
position or arrangement of; throw into confu- 
sion; disarrange; confuse. 
Thou daign'st to shake Heav'ns solid Orbs so bright; 
Th' Order of Nature to die-order quight? 
Sylvester, tr. of Du liartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
The incursions of the Goths and other barbarous nations 
disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot. 
nat = Sp. Pg. dcsordenado = It. ilisordittato, 
thrown into disorder, < ML. disordinatus, pp. 
of disordinare : see disorder, r.] 1. Out of right 
order; unregulated; disorderly. [Rare.] 
Our popular style . . . has been artificial, by artifices 
peculiarly adapted to the powers of the Latin language, 
and yet at the very same time careless and disordinate. 
De Quincey, Style, L 
2f. Extreme ; inordinate. 
With a disordinate desire he began to affect her. 
Greene, Never too Late (ed. Dyce), Int., p. xxi, 
Though not disordinate, yet causeless suffering, 
The punishment of dissolute days. Milton, S. A. , 1. 701. 
Inadis- 
2. To derange the physical or mental health disordinatelyt(dis-or'di-nat-li), adv. 
of; bring into a morbid condition of body or rdl nate manner, (a) Irregularly, 
mind; indispose. 
The monks are so strongly possessed with the notion of 
the bad air that they told me several persons had been 
much disordered, and some had even died, by going to the 
Bead Sea. Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 38. 
The temporal! landes deuoutelygeuen, and disordinate- 
ly spent. Hall, Hen. V., an. 2. 
(6) Inordinately. 
The sorrow don so ditordinatly 
Off that wurde which he pronounced openly ! 
.Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3580. 
pagSo = It.tUsoccupazione; as dis- priv. + oc- 3. To produce mental disturbance in; unsettle ,;,,,+,. /"r"' "' ' ' " -/ v, \ r 
cupation.] Want of occupation ; the state of the mind of; perturb; agitate disordinationt (dis-or-di-na shon), n. [= Sp. 
desordenacioit = It. dmordmazione, < ML. as if 
being unoccupied. 
He graced the curbstone there with the same lily-like 
dixoccupatian, and the same sweetness of aspect. 
Howells, The Century, XXIX. 493. 
Disoma (di-so'ma), n. [NL., < Gr. tiaufiof, dou- 
ble-bodied, < Si-, two-, + ao/ia, body. Cf . disoma- 
tous.] A genus of chsetopodous annelids, of the 
family Nerinida;. 
dlsomatOUS (di-so'ma-tus), a. [< Gr. Siaufia- 
rof, double-bodied, < <!<-, two-, + cafta(r-), body.] 
Having two bodies ; double-bodied. 
disopinion (dis-o-pin'yon), n. [< dis- priv. + 
opinion.] Difference of opinion ; want of be- 
lief. [Rare.] 
Assenting and dissenting thoughts, belief and disopin- 
'<"' Bp. Reynolds, On the Passions, iv. 
He said, he looked, he did nothing at all 
Beyond his wont, yet it disordered me. 
Shelley, The Cenci, II. 1. 
4. To derange the 
of; throw out of order or balance 
normal condition of 
his mind is disordered. 
A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party 
spirit. Macaulay. 
It is a great Folly to disorder our selves at the Pleasure 
of our Enemies, or at such Accidents which we can neither 
prevent nor remove. Stilling fleet, Sermons, III. vii. 
5f. To depose from holy orders. 
Let him be stripped and disordered. I would fain see 
him walk in querpo, that the world may behold the 
"disordinatio(n-), < disordinare, disorder: see 
disorder, v., disordinate.] Disarrangement. 
ruption of constituent parts ; a breaking up of 
order or system : as, the disorganization of a 
government or of an army. 2. The absence 
of organization or orderly arrangement ; dis- 
arrangement; disorder; confusion. 
The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorgani- 
zation. Scott. 
side of a friar. Dryden, Spanish Friar. 
disorb (dis-orb'), . t. [< dis- priv. + orb.] To disordered (dis-6r'derd), p. a. [< disorder + 
throw out of orbit. -erf 2 .] 1 . Thrown into disorder ; disarranged ; 
Fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, 
Or like a star dis-orb'd. Shak., T. and C., ii. 2. 
disordenet, a. [ME., also disordeyn, commonly 
desordene, adj. (equiv. to disordinate, q. v.), < 
OF. desordene, pp. of desordener, throw into dis- 
order: see disorder, 
Disorderly; vicious. 
The desordene covetyse of men. 
Chaucer, Boethins, ii. meter 2. of disorder or irregularity ; confusion. Knolles. 
disorder (dis-or'der), n. [< OF. desordre, F disorderliness (dis-6r'der-li-nes), n. The state 
desordre = Pr. desorde = Sp. desdrden = Pg. 
desordem It. disordine, disorder, < L. dis- priv. 
+ ordo (ordin-), order: see dis- and order, n.] 
1. Lack of order or regular arrangement : ir- 
and cf. disordinate.] 
-ed?.] 
irregular in state or action ; confused. 
Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold, 
That this our court, infected with their manners, 
Shows like a riotous inn. Shak., Lear, i. 4. 
2. Deranged. 
The story he had told of that disordered maid affected 
regular arrangement; ir- 
regularity; indiscriminate distribution; con- 
fusion : as, the troops were thrown into disor- 
der; the papers are in disorder. 
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. 
Milton, P. L., iii. 713. 
The Acheeans are driven in disorder to their ships 
". A. Rea., CXXXIX. 461. 
disorganize (dis-6r'ga-nlz), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
disorganized, ppr. disorganizing. [= F. desor- 
ganiser = Sp. Pg. desorganizar = It. (Hsorganiz- 
zare; as <iis-priv. + organize.] To destroy the 
organization, systematic arrangement, or order- 
ly connection of the parts of ; throw into con- 
fusion or disorder. 
Every account of the settlement of Plymouth mentions 
the conduct of Lyford, who attempted to disorganize the 
church. Eliot's Biog. Diet. 
me not a little. Sterne, Sentimental Journey^ 10& disorganizer (dis-6r'ga-ni-zer), n. One who 
disorderedness (dis-6r'derd-nes), n. A state disorganizes; one who" destroys regular order 
* ^i an 4 n . ~- : 1~_:4._-. e ___ T^ . or system; one who introduces disorder and 
confusion. 
disorient (dis-6'ri-ent), v. t. [= F. desorienter 
= Sp. Pg. desorientar; as dis- priv. + orient.] 
1. To turn from the east ; throw out of direc- 
tion with respect to the east. Hence 2. To 
confuse as to direction in general; cause to 
lose one's bearings. 3. Figuratively, to cause 
to lose the knowledge of the direction in which 
the truth lies; cause to lose one's reckoning 
of being disorderly. 
A child who finds that disorderliness entails the subse- 
quent trouble of putting things in order . . . not only ex- 
penences a keenly-felt consequence, but gains a know- 
ledge of causation. H. Spencer, Education. 
disorderly (dis-6r'der-li), a. [< disorder + 
-ly 1 -] 1. Being without proper order or dis- 
position; confused; unmethodical; irregular: 
as, the books and papers are in a disorderly 
state. 
His forces seemed no army, but a crowd, 
Heartless, unarm'd, disorderly, and loud. 
Cowley, Davideis, iv. 
with respect to the truth : the east being taken 
metaphorically for the truth. 
I doubt then the learned professor was a little disori- 
ented when he called the promises in Ezekiel and in the 
Revelations the same. Warburton, Divine Legation, v. 
2. Tumult; disturbance of the peace of so- 
ciety; breach of public order or law. 2 Not keot n e t ' r- "~.^.., u ,, , D i.i C . >rii/iuiv, jsiruieixgHuon, r. 
It is said that great disorders had been committed here multuous turbulen fame , u- disorientate (dis-6-ri-en'tat), 1'. t. ; pret. and 
by the Greeks at the time of his [St. Polycarp's] festival "~ *- -'--' -K -* r/ .T., 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 36. 
You have displaced the mirth, broke the good rneetin; 
, 
'ith most admir'd disorder. 
ity. 
*., Macbeth, iii. 4. 
conventional- 
It we subdue our unruly and disorderly passions within 
ourselves, we should live more easily and quietly with 
Others. Stittimttlrj't. Sfirmnna ITT i 
pp. disorientated, ppr. disorientating. [< dix- 
priv. + orientate.] To disorient. 
OF. i 
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part 
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, i. 152. 
4. Morbid irregularity, disturbance, or inter- 
law and good order, or the restraints of moral- 
ity ; specifically, so conducted as to be a nui- 
sance; disreputable: as, a disorderly house. 
In criminal law disorder!,, is a technical term, which by 
statute eovers a variety of offenses against the public 
peace, order, morals, or safety 
cate, arbiter, judge, F. digeur, a talker, < dire, 
< L. (Ucere, speak, say: see diction.] A story- 
teller ; a jester. 
Nbmeliche atte mete suche men eschuwe, 
For thei ben the deueles disonrs I do the to vndnrstonde. 
Vim riomnaii (A), vii. 50. 
