dispute 
compute, count^, impute, repute, amputate, etc.] 
I. iutrans. 1. To engage in argument or dis- 
in argument : absolutely or with with or against. 
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sometimes the question too; and yet no man shall be of 
as before. 
Jer . TaylgTt works (ed. 1835), Ded. 
his raind raor e 
ques 
than 
disputisont, .. 
nutation. 
A Middle English form of dis- 
distant 
(dis-kwi'et-ful), a. [< disquiet, n., 
Producing disquiet. Barrow. 
(dis-kwi'i-tiv), . [< rfisgaie*, ., 
Tending to disquiet ; disquieting. 
He doth often so earnestly dispute with them [Jews] 
that he hath converted some of them to Christianity. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 156. 
Hence 2. To engage in altercation; wrangle ; 
quarrel. 
Mrs. Fidget and Mrs. Fescue disputed above half an 
hour for the same chair. 
Addison, Trial of Ladies Quarrels. 
3. To strive or contend in opposition to a com- 
petitor; compete: as, to dispute for the prize. 
II. trans. 1. To argue about ; discuss. 
What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the 
way? 
The rest I reserve until it be disputed how the magis- 
trate is to do herein. Milton. 
Hawkins. 
= disquietly (dis-kwi'et-li), adv. 1. Without 
quiet or rest ; in an uneasy state ; uneasily ; 
anxiously : as, he rested disquietly that night. 
__________ .__ , . 2. In a disquieting manner; in such a man- 
fi ca tion ; absence or deprivation of ability, pow- n er as to destroy quiet or tranquillity. [Rare 
er, or capacity ; any disability or incapacity, 
I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifi- 
cation* which you have been pleased to overlook. 
Sir J. Shore. 
3. That which disqualifies or incapacitates: as, digquietmentt (dis-kwl'et-ment), n. 
conviction of crime is a disqualification for pub- 
lic office. 
It is recorded as a sufficient disqualification of a wife, 
that, speaking of her husband, she said, "God forgive 
"Tn society, high advantages are set down to itoKd- disquietneSS (dis-kwi'et-nes), 
ual as disqualifications. Emerson, Society and Solitude. 
Mark ix. S3. disqualify (dis-kwol'i-fi), is. t. ; pret. and pp 
disqualified, ppr. disqualify ing. 
fier; as dis- priv. + qualify.] 
[= F. deqiiati- 
To deprive of 
2. To argue against; attempt to disprove or the necessary qualifications ; deprive of natural 
overthrow by reasoning; controvert ; deny: as, or legal power, or the qualities or rights neces- 
to dispute an assertion, opinion, claim, or the sary for some purpose ; disable ; unfit : gen- 
erally with for, sometimes with from : as, ill 
health disqualifies the body for labor and the 
mind for study; a conviction of perjury dis- 
qualifies a man for being a witness. 
Men are not disqualified by their engagements in trade 
from being received in high society. Southey. 
In spite of the law disqualifying hired champions, it is 
pretty clear that they were always to be had for money. 
C. H. Pearson, Early and Mid. Ages of Eug. 
like. 
We do not dispute that the royal party contained many 
excellent men and excellent citizens. 
Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
Dispute the claims, arrange the chances ; 
Emperor, Ottoman, which shall win? 
Tennyson, To Rev. F. D. Maurice. 
There has never been a time when the necessity of re- 
ligion, in the broad sense of the word, has been so clear, 
if there has never been a time when its value in the nar- 
row sense has been so much disputed. 
J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 124. 
3. To call in question; express doubt of or op- 
position to ; object to. 
Now I am sent, and am not to dispute 
My prince's orders, but to execute. 
Dryden, Indian Emperor. 
I had rather be unobserved than conspicuous for dis- 
puted perfections. Steele, Spectator, No. 348. 
4. To strive to gain or to maintain ; contest : 
as, to dispute a prize. 
Our swords our swords shall dispute our pretences. 
Steele, Lying Lover, ii. 1. 
6f. To encounter ; strive against. 
Mai. Dispute it like a man. 
Macd. I shall do so ; 
But I must also feel it as a man. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 
To dispute the weather-gage, to manceuver, as two 
Instead of educating himself to take his place in the 
world, he has disqualijied himself for being anything but 
a student all his life. 
Stub/is, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 103. 
lessen. 
Be then desir'd . . . 
A little to disquantity your train. 
Shak., Lear, i. 4. 
2. To deprive of quantity or metrical value, as 
a syllable. 
Horace "NValpole's nephew, the Earl of Orford, when he 
was in his cups, used to have Statius read aloud to him 
every night for two hours by a tipsy tradesman, whose 
hiccupings threw in here and there a kind of csesural 
pause, and found some strange mystery of sweetness in 
the disquantitied syllables. 
in both uses.] 
Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous 
disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves ! 
Shak., Lear, 1. 2. 
of disquieting, or the state of" being disquieted. 
Such a peace of conscience is far worse and more dan- 
gerous than the most horrid troubles and disquiet ments 
of conscience can be. Hopkins, Sermons, xxvi. 
The state of 
bemg disquiet ; unrest. 
"All otherwise" (saide he) "I riches read, 
And deeme them roote of all dixquietnesse." 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 12. 
Their disquietness and ranting will be insufferable. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 388. 
disquietoust (dis-kwi'e-tus), a. [< disquiet, n., 
+ -ous.] Causing uneasiness ; disquieting. 
Concerning therefore this wayward subject against prel- 
aty, the touching whereof is so distastf nil and disquietousta 
a number of men. Milton, Church-Government, Pref., ii. 
disquietude (dis-kwi'e-tud), n. [< dis- priv. + 
quietude.] An uneasy or disturbed state of 
mind; a feeling of slight alarm or apprehen- 
sion; perturbation. 
These people are under continual disquietudes, never 
enjoying a minute's peace of mind. 
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, ill. 2. 
Such is the sad disquietude I share, 
A sea of doubts, and self the source of all. 
Cowper, Vicissitudes Experienced in the Christian Life. 
'arance (dis-kwip'a- 
, disquiparantia, a word 
appearing e'arly in the 14th century, appar. 
contr. from *dis<equiparantia, < L. dis- priv. + 
"wquiparantia, < aiquiparan(t-)s, ppr. of aiqui- 
parare, compare : see equiparancy.] The de- 
notation of two objects, as being related, by 
different names. Thus, father and son, mas- 
ter and servant, are said to be "relates of dis- 
quiparancy." [Bare.] 
Relateds synonymous are usually called relateds of axiui- 
parancy, . . . heteronymous, of disquipararwy. 
Burgersdicius, tr. by a Gentleman, p. 22. 
Debate, Discuss, etc. See argue. 
dispute (dis-puf), . [= D. dispuut = G.disput, 
dispiit = Dan. Sw. disput, dispyt, < F. dispute = 
Sp. Pg. It. disputa, dispute; from the verb.] 
1. Argumentative contention ; earnest discus- 
sion of opposing views or opinions; contro- 
versial strife. 
This . . . produced a dispute attended with some acri- 
mony. Goldsmith, Vicar, ii. 
Disputes are multiplied as if everything were uncertain, 
and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, 
as if everything were certain. Hume, Human Nature, Int. 
From expostulations with the king, the matter of reli- 
gion turned into disputes among the priests, at which the 
king always assisted in person. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 190. 
2. Wrangling; contention; strife; quarrel. 
Could we forbear dispute and practise love, 
We should agree as angels do above. 
Waller, Divine Love, iii. 
Nor is it aught but just 
That he who in debate of truth hath won 
Should win in arms, in both disputes alike 
Victor. Milton, P. L., vi. 123. 
3. A contest of any kind. 
The four Men of War made sail for the forts, against 
which we anchored about one in the afternoon ; and after 
four hours' dispute [firing), went to the westward. 
Retaking of the Island of Sainta Helena (Arber's Eng. 
[Garner, I. 61). 
Beyond, without, or past dispute, indisputably ; incon- 
trovertibly. 
In prose and verse was owned without dispute 
Through all the realms of nonsense absolute. 
Dryden. 
He . . . forged and falsified 
One letter called Pompilia's, past dispute. 
Brouming, Ring and Book, I. 139. 
TO bo Ul dispute, to be under discussion ; be the subject 
of controversy. =Svn. Controversy, Dispute (see contro- 
versy), debate, discussion, altercation. 
disputer (dis-pu'ter), . One who disputes, or 
who is given to disputation or controversy. 
Where is the disputer of this world ? 1 Cor. i. 20. 
It is enough to weary the spirit of a disputer, that he 
shall argue till he hath lost his voice, and his time, and 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 2ls. disquisition (dis-kwi-zish'on), n. [= F. dis- 
_ j ., r/ ,?: : q,,isition = Sp. disquisicion = Pg. disquisiySo 
= It. disquisizione, < L. disquisitio(n-), an in- 
quiry, investigation,< disquirere, pp. disquisitus, 
inquire, investigate, < dis-, apart, + qucerere, 
seek : see query, question, acquire, inquire, etc., 
and cf. acquisition, inquisition, etc.] It. A 
seeking; search; investigation. 
On their return from a disquisition as fruitless as soli- 
citous, nurse declared her apprehensions that Harry had 
gone off with a little favourite toy whom, he had taken 
into service. H. Brooke, Fool of Quality, I. 82. 
2. A formal or systematic inquiry into or in- 
vestigation of some problem or topic ; a formal 
discussion or treatise; a dissertation; an es- 
say : as, a disquisition on government or morals. 
Former times have had their disquisitions about the 
antiquity of it [angling]. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 37. 
disquiet (dis-kwi'et), a. and n. [< dis- priv. 
+ quiet.'] I. a. Unquiet; restless; uneasy. 
[Rare.] 
I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet. 
Shak., T. of the S., iv. 1. 
Harke 1 harke ! now softer melody strikes mute 
Disquiet Nature. ilarston, Sophonisba, iv. 1. 
II. n. 1. Want of quiet, rest, or peace; an 
uneasy or unsettled state of feeling, as in a per- 
son or a community ; restlessness ; unrest. 
His palms are folded on his breast ; 
There is no other thing express'd 
But long disquiet merged in rest. 
Tennyson, The Two Voices. 
The usual elements of disquiet which always threaten 
danger to an established order of things. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., i. 
2. A disquieting occurrence or condition; a 
disturbance; an alarm, or a state of alarm. 
[Archaic.] 
[They] rack and torture themselves with cares, fears, 
and disquiets. Bacon, Physical Fables, ii., Expl. 
It was falsely said that he had spoken with contumely 
of the theological disquisitions which had been found in 
the strong box of the late king, and which the present 
king had published. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
en 
disquiet 
dis- pri' 
rest, or tranquillity ; make uneasy or restless ; Imp. Diet. 
harass; disturb; vex. disquisitiye (dis-kwiz'i-tiv), a. [< L. as if 
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou *dtsquisitivus, < disquisitus, pp. of disquirere, 
disquieted within me? Ps. xliii. 5. inquire: see disquisition.] 1. Pertaining to 
Next to the eldest reigned his second Son Ethelbert; or of the nature of disquisition. 2f. Inclined 
all whose Reign, which was only five Years, was perpetu- to discussion or investigation ; inquisitive, 
ally disquieted with Invasions of the Danes. disqulsitorial (dis-kwiz-i-to'ri-al), fl. [As dis- 
qiiisitory + -?.] Pertaining to disquisition ; 
partaking of the nature of a disquisition ; crit- 
ical. Cumberland. 
disquisitory (dis-kwiz'i-to-ri), a. [< L. dis- 
quisitus, pp. of disquirere, inquire (see disquisi- 
tion), + -ory.~] Same as disquisitorial. Edin- 
burgh Her. 
One who or that disr'ankt (dis-rank'), r. t. [< dis- priv. + rank*. 
Cf. derange.'] 1. To reduce to a lower rank; 
disquietalt (dis-kwi'e-tal), n. [< disquiet, v., + 
-at.] Want of quiet; disquietude; unrest. 
At its own fall 
Grows full of wrath and rage, and gins to fume, 
And roars and strives 'gainst its disquietall, 
Like troubled ghost forc'd some shape to assume. 
Dr. H. More, Psychathanasia, I. ii. 21 
disquieter (dis-kwi'e-ter), n. 
which disquiets. 
The archbishop, the disquieter both of the kingdom and 
the church. Holinshed, Hen. II., an. 1164. 
degrade. 2. To disorder the ranks of ; throw 
out of rank or into confusion. 
