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diSDleasinelv (dis-ple'zing-li), adv. In a dis- displosiont (dis-plo'zhon), H. [< L. as if 'dis- 
pleasing, annoying, or offensive manner. plosio(n-), < displodere, pp. displosus, burst 
From their retreats asunder : see displodc.] The act of displodmg ; 
Cockroaches crawl displeaxiivjly abroad. explosion. 
Grainger, Sugar Cane, i. Tne vast disp i os i on dissipates the clouds. 
displeasingness (dis-ple'zing-nes), n. Dis- Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 
tastefulness ; oft'ensiveness ; the quality of giv- displosivet (dis-plo'siv), a. [< L. displosus, pp. 
ing some degree of annoyance or offense. o f displodere, displode, + -we.'] Explosive, 
displeasurable (dis-plez'ur-a-bl), a. [< dis- displume (dis-p!6m'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. dis- 
priy. + pleasurable.] Not pleasurable ; giving plumed, ppr. displuming. [< OF. desplmner, 
or imparting no pleasure. 
The pleasures men gain by labouring in their vocations, 
and receiving in one form or another returns for their 
services, usually have the drawback that the labours are 
in a considerable degree displeasurable. 
H. Spencer, Data of Ethics, 102. 
F. deplumer = Sp. Pg. desplmnar = It. spin- 
mare, strip of feathers, < L. djs-^priv. + plu- 
displeasure (dis-plez'ur), n. [< AF. displea- 
sure (F. deplaisir), < *displeser, OF. desplaisir, 
mare, feather : see plume, v. Cf. deplume.] 
strip or deprive of plumes or feathers ; hence, 
to strip of honors, or of badges of honor. 
You have sent them to us ... so displumed, degraded, 
and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, 
Burke, Rev. in France. 
sure (i. uepiumu,, -, u.^oao/ , wj. . <//>, that we no longer know them. 
F. deplaire, displease : see displease, , and ef . cits- The sun shone w[de over open Upland9j the displunud 
and pleasure.] 1. Uhe state of ieelmg dis- hub stood clear against the sky. 
pleased ; specifically, a feeling of intense or R. L. Stevenson, Silverado Squatters, p. 17. 
indignant disapproval, as of an act of disobe- dispoint (dis-poinf), v. t. [< dfe-priv. + point, 
dience, injustice, etc. : as, a man incurs the m- -j To deprive of a point or points. 
displeasure of another by thwarting his views whi]e N , ds his victorv too . fast; 
or schemes ; a servant incurs the dtspleasure of jjj s hooks die-pointed disappoint his haste. 
his master by neglect or disobedience; we ex- Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
perience displeasure at any violation of right or dispondaic (di-spon-da'ik), a. [As dispondee 
decorum. + _} C) after spondaic.] Of or pertaining to a 
dispondee; consisting of or constituting two 
spondees : as, the dispondaic close of a dactylic 
hexameter. 
They even meet to complain, censure, and remonstrate, dispondee (dl-spon'de), n. [< L. dispondeus, 
when a governor gives displeasure. Brougham. LL. also dispondius, < Gr. oiawovoemf, a double 
spondee, < 61-, two-, 4- avovSeloc,, spondee : see 
spondee.] In pros., a double spondee ; two spon- 
The States return answer, That they are heartily sorry 
they should incur her displeasure by conferring upon the 
E[arl of Leicester] that absolute Authority, not having 
first made her acquainted. Baker, Chronicles, p. 366. 
2. Discomfort; uneasiness; dolefulness: op- 
posed to pleasure. [Archaic.] 
A feeling ... as distinct and recognizable as the feel- 
ing of pleasure in a sweet taste or of displeasure at a tooth 
dees regarded as forming one compound foot. 
(dl-spon-de'us), n. ; pi. dispondei 
dispondeus , 
ache. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 126. (-j). [L. : see dispondee.] Same as dispondee. 
3. Offense; umbrage. [Archaic.] dispone (dis-pon')^ v.; pret. and pp. disponed, 
ipr. disponing. 
King Lewis took displeasure that his Daughter was not 
crowned as well as her Husband. Baker, Chronicles, p. 54. 
4. A displeasing or offensive act ; an act which 
causes, or is fitted to cause or rouse, a feeling 
of dissatisfaction, annoyance, or resentment ; 
an ill turn or affront : generally preceded by do. 
Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, 
though I do them a displeasure. Judges xv. 3. 
5f. A state of disgrace or disfavor. 
He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope 
for overmuch familiarity. Peacham, Music. 
= Syn. 1. Dissatisfaction, disapprobation, distaste, dislike, 
anger, vexation, indignation, resentment, annoyance. 
displeasure (dis-plez'ur), >. t. [< displeasure, 
n.] To displease ; be displeasing or annoying 
to : as, it displeasures me to see so much waste. 
[Archaic.] 
When the way of pleasuring and displeasuring lieth by 
the favourite, it is impossible any other should be over 
great. Bacon, Ambition. 
displenish (dis-plen'ish), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
plenish.] To dlsf urnish ; deprive of plenishing ; 
of the plenishing of; render void or 
[Formerly also dispon ; < ME. 
< OF. disponer, dispose, despondre, 
expose, expound, explain, F. dial, depondre, 
disjoin, detach, let go, = Sp. disponer = Pg. 
dispor = It. disporre, disponere = D. disponeren 
= G. disponircn = Dan. disponere = Sw. dispo- 
nera, dispose, < L. disponere, pp. dispositus, set 
in different places, distribute, arrange, set in 
order, dispose, settle, determine, < dis-, apart, 
in different directions, + ponere, set, place: 
see ponent, and cf. dispose.] I. trans. If. To 
set in order ; arrange ; dispose. 
Syn God seth every thing, out of doutance, 
And hem disponeth thorugh his ordinaunce. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 964. 
2. In Scots law, to make over or convey to an- 
other in a legal form. 
He has disponed . . . the whole estate. Scott. 
Il.t intrans. To make disposition or arrange- 
ment; dispose : absolutely or with of. 
Of my moble thou dispone 
Right as the semeth best is for to done. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 300. 
Man propons but God dispons. 
Ray, Proverbs, 2d ed. (1678), p. 384. 
disponee (dis-po-ne'), n. [< dispone + -eel.'] l n 
Scots law, one to whom anything is disponed or 
made over. 
dispose 
destitute: as, a'displeuishing sale (that is, one 
in which the entire household furniture is dis- 
posed of). [Scotch and North. Eng.] 
It was admitted, indeed, that large areas of forest-land 
had been displenished. Geikie, Ice Age, p. 1. 
displenishment (dis-plen'ish-ment), n. 1. disponent (dis-po'nent), a. [= Pg. It. dispo- 
The act of displenishing. 2. The condition of nente, < L. disponen(t-)s, ppr. of disponere, dis- 
being displenished. pose: see dispone.] Disposing or fitting for the 
displicence, displicency (dis'pli-sens, -sen-si), end in view. Disponent form, in metaph. See/orm, 
n. [< L. displicentia, displeasure," dissafisfac- disponer (dis-po'ner), n. In Scots law, a person 
tion: see displacency, displeasance, doublets of who legally transfers property from himself to 
displicence, displicency.] Displeasure ; dislike, another. 
[Rare.] disponget (dis-punj'), v. t. [< dis- + sponge.] 
He, then, is the besUcholar, that studieth the least, by To discharge, as from a sponge ; distil or drop. 
, , 
his own arguings, to clear to himself these obscure inter- 
jections of displicence and ill-humour. 
W. Montague, Devoute Essays, i. 
Hence arose, ... I will not say a grudge against them, 
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, 
The poisonous damp of night daponge upon me. 
Shak., A. and C., iv. 9. 
In so far as a man's life consists in the abundance of 
the things he possesseth, we see then why it dwindles 
with these. The like holds where self-complacency or dit- 
for they had no sin, yet a kind of displicency with them j. _. /j. - ./\ r s-*m j< 
as mere creatures. Goodutin, Works I i 135 disport (dis-porf), v. [< ME. disporten,*despor- 
T_ __ t .. ,: ._.- ,_ it. _,.__., , to, divert, play, < OF. desporter = It. *disportar 
(in deriv.) (< ML. as if *disportare), var. of de- 
,. ..~.~~n-i,.,.,, H iavv.i,*j ul u- porter, depporter, bear, support, manage, dis- 
^rs^^tfeSts 
displodet (dis-plod'), v. [< L. displodere, pp. 
displosus, spread out, burst asunder, < dis-, 
asunder, + plaudere, strike, clap, beat. Cf. 
applaud, explode.} I. intrans. To burst with a 
loud report ; explode. 
Like rubbish from dizplodiiifr engines thrown. 
Young, Night Thoughts, v. 
II. trans. To cause to burst with a loud re- 
port; explode. 
Stood rank'd of seraphim another row, 
In posture to disploile their second tire 
Of thunder. Milton, P. L., vi. 605. 
F. deporter, carry away, transport, refl. desist, 
= Pr. Sp. Pg. deportar = It. diportare, deport, 
divert, < L. departure, carry away, transport, 
ML. also bear, suffer, forbear, also (by a turn 
of thought seen also in similar senses of dis- 
tract, divert, transport), divert, amuse, < de, 
away, + portare, carry. See deport. Hence by 
apheresis sjwrt, q. v.] I. trans. If. To carry 
away; transport; deport. 
And in the first parliament of his raigue there was this 
act of indemnity passed, That all and singular persons 
commiug with him from beyond the seas into the realme 
dispose 
of Englande, taking his party and quarrell, in recovering 
his just title and right to the realme of England, shall be 
utterly discharged quite, and unpunishable for ever, by 
way of action, or otherwise, of or for any murther, slay- 
ing of men, or of taking and disporting of goods, or any 
other trespasses done by them. 
Prynne, Treachery and Disloyalty, iii. 45. 
2. To divert; cheer; amuse sportively or gai- 
ly: usually with a reflexive pronoun. 
Bisily they gonnen hire conforten, . . . 
And witli hire tales wenden hire dixporten. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 724. 
Tho was this wofull wife comforted 
By alle waies and disported. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., I. 75. 
3. To display in a gay or sportive manner; 
sport. 
The new varieties of form in which his genius now dis- 
ported itself were scarcely less striking. 
Ticknor, Span. Lit., II. 241. 
II. intrans. To play ; sport ; indulge in gai- 
ety. 
With that entred the Emperour in to his chamber and 
the sauage man and his prive counseile, and ther thei rested 
and disported, and spake of many thinges. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 428. 
That cup-board where the Mice disport, 
I liken to St. Stephen's Court. 
Prior, Erie Robert's Mice. 
Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes. 
Pope, R. of the L., 11. 66. 
disport (dis-port'), n. [< ME. disport, disporte, 
desporte, < OF. "desport, disport, deport = Pg. 
desporto (obs.) = It. disporto (ML. disportus), 
disport ; from the verb. Hence by apheresis 
sport, q. v.] Diversion; amusement; play; 
sport; pastime; merriment. 
Non other Cytee is not lyche in comparisoun to it, of 
faire Gardynes, and of faire Desportes. 
Mandemlle, Travels, p. 123. 
Than com the kynge Arthur and his companye from 
theire disporte. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 466. 
All prepare 
For revels and disport. 
Ford, Broken Heart, iii. 3. 
Thy feathered lieges bill and wings 
In love's disport employ. 
Wordsworth, Ode Composed on May Morning. 
disportment (dis-port'ment), n. The act of dis- 
porting; play; amusement. [Obsolete or rare.] 
disposable (dis-po'za-bl), a. [< dispose + 
-able.] Subject to disposal; that may be dis- 
posed of; free to be used or employed as occa- 
sion may require; available: as,disposal)le prop- 
erty; the whole disposable force of an army. 
To whom should the infant community, ... as yet not 
abounding in disposable means to whom should they 
look? Everett, Orations, I. 347. 
The English law has always enjoyed even more than its 
fair share of the disposable ability of the country. 
Maine, Cambridge Essays, p. 28. 
disposal (dis-po'zal), n. [< dispose + -al.] 1. 
The act of disposing or placing; a setting or 
arranging; disposition or arrangement : as, the 
disposal of the troops in two lines ; the disposal 
of books in a library. 2. A disposing of by 
bestowal, alienation, riddance, etc.: as, the dis- 
posal of money by will ; the disposal of a daugh- 
ter in marriage; the disposal of an estate by 
sale; the disposal of sewage. 
I am called off from publick dissertations by a domes- 
tick affair of great importance, which is no less than the 
disposal of my sister Jenny for life. Tatter, No. 75. 
3. Regulation, ordering, or arrangement, by 
right of power or possession; dispensation. 
Tax not divine disposal; wisest men 
Have err'd, and by bad women been deceived ; 
And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 210. 
4. Power or right to dispose of or control : pre- 
ceded usually by at, sometimes by in or to : as, 
everything is left at, in, or to his disposal ; the 
results are at or in the disposal of Providence. 
Are not the blessings both of this world and the next in 
Us disposal? Bp. Atterbury. 
I am at your disposal the whole morning. 
Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. 
Of all the tools at Law's disposal, sure 
That named Vigiliarum is the best 
That is, the worst to whoso has to bear. 
Brouming, Ring and Book, II. 74. 
=Syn. 1 and 2. Disposition, distribution. 3 and 4. Con- 
trol, ordering, direction. 
dispose (dis-poz'), v.; pret. and pp. disposed, 
ppr. disposing. [< ME. disposen, < OF. disposer, 
desposer, F. disposer, dispose, arrange, order, 
accom. after poser, set, place (see pose 3 ), < L. 
disponere, pp. dispositus, arrange, dispose, etc. : 
see dispone, and cf. disposition, etc.] I. trans. 
1 . To set in order ; place or distribute in a par- 
ticular order ; put; arrange: as, the ships were 
disposed in the form of a crescent ; the trees are 
disposed in the form of a quincunx. 
