dispositor 
L. as if "dispositor, < disponerc, pp. dispositus, 
dispose: see disponc, dispose."] 1. A disposer. 
2. In astral., a planet in one of whose es- 
sential dignities another planet is, the former 
being said to "dispose of" the latter. 
When the dutpositor of the planet signifying the thing 
asked after is himself disposed by the lord of the ascen- 
dant, it is a good sign. Jtaymond Lully (trans.). 
dispossess (dis-po-zes'), v. t. [< OP. desposses- 
ser, deposseser = Pr. dcspossezir = It. disposses- 
sarc, spossessare ; as dis- priv. + possess, v. Cf. 
OF. desposser, also desposseder, F. d6posseder 
= Sp. desposeer (cf. Pg. despossar, desapossar), 
< ML. dispossidcre, dispossess, < dis- priv. + 
possidere, possess: see dis- and possess. ] 1. To 
put out of possession ; deprive of actual occu- 
pancy, particularly of real property ; dislodge ; 
disseize: usually followed by of before the 
thing possessed: as, to dispossess a tenant of 
his holding. 
Ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and 
dwell therein. Num. xxxiii. 63. 
The Christians were utterly dispossest of Judea by Sa- 
ladine the Aegyptian Sultan. Sandys, Travailes, p. 113. 
It will be found a work of no small difficulty to dispos- 
sess and throw out a vice from that heart, where long 
possession begins to plead prescription. South, Sermons. 
The Confederates at the west were narrowed down for 
all communication with Richmond to the single line of 
road running east from Vicksburg. To dispossess them 
of this, therefore, became a matter-of the first importance. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 383. 
2. To relieve or free from or as if from demo- 
niac possession. 
They have three ministers, (one a Scotchman,) who 
take great pains among them, and had lately (by prayer 
and fasting) dispossessed one possessed with a devil. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 158. 
Dispossess proceedings, proceedings at law summa- 
rily to eject a tenant, as for non-payment of rent. [Colloq.] 
Dispossess warrant, a warrant awarded in such pro- 
ceedings, to eject the occupant. [New York.] 
dispossessed (dis-po-zesf), a. [< dis- + (self-) 
possessed.] Having lost one's self-possession 
or self-command. [Rare.] 
Miss Susan, deeply agitated, and not knowing what to 
say or do, stood also, dispossessed, looking from the child 
to the woman, and from the woman to the child. 
Mrs. Oliphant. 
dispossession (dis-po-zesh'on), . [= F. de- 
possession; as dispossess -f -ion. Cf. posses- 
sion.] 1. The act of putting out of possession, 
or the state of being dispossessed. 2. The act 
of relieving or freeing from demoniac posses- 
sion, or the like. 
That heart [Mary Magdalene's] . . . was freed from 
Satan by that powerful dispossession. 
Sp. Hall, Contemplations, iv. 
3. In law, same as ouster. 
dispossessor (dis-po-zes'or), n. One who dis- 
possesses. 
The heirs (blessed be Ood !) are yet surviving, and likely 
to out-live all heirs of their dispossessors besides their in- 
famy. Cowley, Government of Oliver Cromwell. 
dispostt (dis-posf), v. t. [< dis- priv. + posft.] 
To remove from a post ; displace. 
Now, thinke thou see'st this Soule of sacred zeale, 
This kindling Cole of naming Charitie, 
Disposted all in post. Dairies, Holy Roode, p. 12. 
disposuret (dis-po'zur), . [< dispose + -ure. 
Cf. L. dispositura, disposition, arrangement.] 
1. Disposal; the power of disposing; control; 
direction ; management. 
She has worn as good [gowns], they sit so apted to her, 
And she is so great a mistress of disposure. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, ill. 4. 
Would you have me, 
Neglecting mine own family, to give up 
My estate to his dispomre I 
Massinger, City Madam, I. 3. 
A true and truly-loving knight's liberty ought to be en- 
chained to the disposure of his lady. 
Ford, Honour Triumphant, i. 
2. Posture ; disposition ; state. 
They remained in a kind of warlike disposure, or perhaps 
little better. Sir II. Wotton. 
3. Distribution; allotment. 
In my distmsure of employments of the brain, I have 
thought (it to make Invention the master. 
Swift, Tale of a Tub, p. 94. 
4. A state of orderly arrangement. 
A life that knew nor noise nor strife; 
But was, by sweetening so his will, 
All order and disposure still. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, x. 
5. Natural disposition. 
His sweet disposure, 
As much abhorring to behold, as do 
Any unnatural and bloody action. 
Chapman, Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, iv. 1. 
dispraisablef (dis-pra'za-bl), a. [< dispraise + 
-able.'] Unworthy of praise. Bet: T. Adams. 
KiSO 
despreiser, desprcser, desprisier, dispriser ( >E. dis- 
prize) = Pr. desprezar, despreciar = Sp. despre- 
ciar = Pg. desprezar = It. disprezzarc, dispre- 
giare, dispraise, < L. dis- priv. + LL. pretiarc, 
prize, praise : see dis- and praise, prize*, and cf . 
disprize.] To speak disparagingly of; men- 
tion with disapprobation, or some degree of 
censure. 
I dispraised him before the wicked. 
SAo*., 2 Hen. IV., it 4. 
Of such 
To be dispraised is the most perfect praise. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 2. 
dispraise (dis-praz '),. [< dispraise, v.] Dis- 
paraging speech or opinion; animadversion; 
censure ; reproach. 
Their language is one, and yet exceedingly diuersifled, 
according as they [the Japanese] differ in State or Sexe : 
or as they speake in praise or dispraise, vsing a diuers 
Idiom. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 524. 
The general has seen Moors 
With as bad faces ; no dispraise to Bertran's. 
Dryden, Spanish Friar, i. 
There is a luxury in Kelt-dispraise ; 
And inward self-disparagement affords 
To meditative spleen a grateful feast. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, iv. 
The long-neck'd geese of the world that are ever hissing 
dispraise, 
Because their natures are little. Tennyson, Maud, iv. 9. 
= Syn. Disparagement, opprobrium, 
dispraiser (dis-pra'zer), n. One who dispraises. 
Bailey, 1727. 
dispraisingly (dis-pra'zing-li), adv. By way of 
dispraise ; with disapproval or some degree of 
reproach. ShaJc. 
dispread (dis-pred'), v. ; pret. and pp. dispread, 
ppr. dispreading. [For *disspread, < dis-, in 
different directions, + spread.] I. trans. To 
extend or spread in different ways or direc- 
tions; expand to the. full width. [Bare.] 
Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread 
Upon that town. Fairfax. 
II. intrans. To expand or be diffused; spread 
widely. [Bare.] 
Heat, dispreadinff through the sky, 
With rapid sway his burning influence darts 
On man, and beast, and herb, and tepid stream. 
Thomson, Summer. 
dispreadert (dis-pred 'er), n. One who dis- 
preads ; a publisher ; a divulger. Milton. 
dispreiset, '. t. A Middle English form of dis- 
praise. 
disprejudicet (dis-prej'o-dis), v. t. [< rfi's-priv. 
+ prejudice.'] To free from prejudice. 
Those . . . will easilie be so far disprejudic'd in point 
of the doctrine as to seek the acquainting their under- 
standings with the grounds and reasons of this religion. 
W. Montague, Devoute Essays, II. vii. 5. 
dispreparet (dis-pre-par'), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
prepare.] To render unprepared. 
The kingdom of darkness ... is nothing else but a con- 
federacy of deceivers . . . that . . . endeavour ... to 
extinguish in them [men] the light, both of nature and the 
Gospel ; and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of 
God to come. Hoboes, The Kingdom of Darkness. 
disprison (dis-priz'n), v. t. [< OF. desprisoner, 
desprisonner, disprisonner (= It. sprigionare), < 
des- priv. + prisoner, prisonner, imprison: see 
dis- audprison, v.] To loose from prison ; set at 
liberty. [Rare.] 
dispriyacied (dis-pri'va-sid), a. [< dis- priv. 
+ privacy + -ed%.] D'eprived of or debarred 
from privacy. [Bare.] 
But now, on the poet's dis-privacied moods, 
With do this and do that the pert critic intrudes. 
Lowell, Fable for Critics. 
dispriyilege (dis-priv'i-lej), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
disprivileged. ppr. disprivileging. [< dis- priv. 
+ privilege.] To deprive of a privilege. [Rare.] 
So acting and believing disprivileges them for ever of 
that recompeuce which is provided for the faithful. 
Penn, Liberty of Conscience, iv. 
disprize (dis-priz'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. disprized, 
ppr. disprizing. [< OF. dispriser, disprisier, var. 
of despreiser, desprescr, undervalue, > E. dis- 
praise: see dispraise, of which disprize is his- 
torically a doublet; cf. prize*, praise.] To 
undervalue; depreciate; disparage. [Rare.] 
Nor is 't the time alone is here dinprised 
But the whole man of time, yea, Cassar's self, 
Brought in disvalue. B. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. 
disprofesst (dis-pro-fes'), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
profess.] To renounce the profession of. 
His armes, which he had vowed to disprofesse, 
She gathered up, and did about him dresse. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 20. 
disproportionality 
disproflt (dis-prof it), n. [< dis- priv. + profit.] 
Loss; detriment; damage. [Rare.] 
Whereas he sought profile, he fell into double disproflte. 
Foxe, Martyrs, p. 1710. 
disprpfitablet (dis-prof i-ta-bl), a. [< OF. dcs- 
profitable, dcsproujfitable, ^ des- priv. + profita- 
ble, profitable.] Unprofitable. 
It is said, that the thing indifferent is to be left free to 
use it or not use it, as it shall seem profitable or disprof ta- 
ble unto the conscience of the user. 
Up. Kitlley, in Bradford's Works (I'arker Soc., 1853), II. 377. 
disproof (dis-prof), n. [Early mod. E. also 
disproof e, disproufe; < disproce (as if < dis- priv. 
+ proof), after prove.] Proof to the contrary ; 
confutation ; refutation : as, to offer evidence 
in disproof of an allegation. 
Bent as he was 
To make disproof of scorn, and strong in hopes. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
dispropertyt (dis-prop'er-ti), v. t. [< dis- priv. + 
property.] To deprive of property ; dispossess. 
He would 
Have made them mules, silenc'd their pleaders, 
And dittpropertied their freedoms. Shak., Cor., ii. 1. 
disproportion (dis-pro-por'shon), n. [< OF. 
disproportion, F. disproportion = Sp. despro- 
porcion = Pg. desproporgao = It. disproporzione, 
sproporzione ; . as dis- priv. + proportion, n.] 
Want of proportion of one thing to another, or 
between the parts of the same thing; lack of 
symmetry ; absence of conformity or due rela- 
tion in size, number, quantity, etc.: as, the 
disproportion of a man's arms to his body, or 
of means to an end ; the disproportion between 
supply and demand. 
Faultless does the Maid appear ; 
No disproportion in her soul, no strife. 
Wordsworth, Sonnets, i. 23. 
The simple Indians were often puzzled by the great dis- 
proportion between bulk and weight. . . . Never was a 
package of furs known to weigh more than two pounds in 
the market of Communipaw. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 102. 
He had yet enough of growing prosperity to enable him 
to increase his expenditure in continued disproportion to 
his income. Qeorye Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ii. 7. 
Disproportion, some say, is the cause of the keenest 
misery in the world : for instance, the disproportion be- 
tween the powers, capacities, and aspirations of man and 
his circumstances especially as regards his physical 
wants. Helps. 
disproportion (dis-pro-por'shon), v. t. [= F. 
disproportionner = Sp. Pg. desproporcionar = 
It. sproporzionare, < ML. disproportionare ; as 
dis- priv. + proportion, v."] To make unsuita- 
ble in dimensions or quantity ; mismatch ; join 
unfitly. 
To shape my legs of an unequal size ; 
To disproportion me in every part. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 
He can perform whatever he strenuously attempts. His 
words never seem disproportioned to his strength. 
W hippie, Ess. and Rev. , I. 179. 
disproportionate (dis-pro-por'shon-a-bl), a. 
[< disproportion + -able.] Disproportioual ; 
disproportionate. [Rare.] 
Such disproportionate and unlikely matches can wealth 
and a fair fortune make. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 554. 
How great a monster is human life, since it consists of 
so disproportionable parts. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 362. 
disproportionableness (dis-pro-por'shon-a-bl- 
nes), n. The state of being out of proportion. 
[Bare.] 
Considering my own great defects, the incompetency 
and disproportionableness of my strength. 
Hajmnond, Works, III., Advertisement. 
dispropprtionably (dis - pro - por ' shon - a - bli), 
adv. Disproportionally ; without regard to just 
proportion. [Bare.] 
Hath the sheriff rated Mr. Hampdeu disproportionably, 
according to his estate and degree ? If he hath, let him 
tell. State Trials, John Hampden, an. 1637. 
disproportional (dis-pro-por'shon-al), a. [= 
F. disprojiortionnel ; as disproportion + -al.~] 
Not having due proportion, absolutely or rela- 
tively ; destitute of proportion or symmetry ; 
unconformable or unequal in dimensions or 
quantity : as, the porch is disjiroportioiiul to 
the building; disproportion al limbs; dispropor- 
tional tasks. 
Nay rather the perfection consists in this, that out of 
many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that 
are not vastly disproportional arises the coodly and grace- 
ful symmetry that commends the whole pile and struc- 
ture. Milton, Areopagitica. 
disproportionality (dis-pro-por-shon-al'j-ti), 
n. [\disjiroportional + -ity.] The quality of 
being disproportional. 
The world so 's setten free 
From that untoward ttttprofMtrtftmafttfe. 
Dr. II. More, Psychathanasia. III. iii. 60. 
