disrupt 
severed by rending or breaking. Ask. [Rare 
or obsolete.] 
disruption (dis-rup'shon), . [< L. 'disrup- 
tio(n-), equiv. to dirupti'o(n-), < disrumpere, pp. 
disruptus, commonly dirumpere, pp. diruptns, 
disrupt: see disrupt, v.] A rending asunder ; a 
bursting apart ; forcible separation or division 
into parts ; dilaceration. 
Sought 
To make disruption in the Table Round. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
Rosalind . . . has since ordered her conduct according 
to the conventions of society, with the result that her in- 
ward being suffers disruption and all but moral ruin. 
B. Dotvden, Shelley, II. 130. 
Disruption of the Scottish Church, the rupture of the 
Established Church of Scotland in 1843, when about 200 
commissioners, composed of ministers and elders, present- 
ing a protest against the General Assembly as a church 
court, at its meeting on May 18th, on the ground that it 
had been deprived of its just freedom and powers by the 
action of the government, chiefly through the enforcement 
of lay patronage in the settlement of ministers, withdrew 
from it and organized the new Free Church of Scotland. 
About 470 ministers seceded, forfeiting benefices of fully 
100,000 aggregate value. The controversy preceding the 
disruption is known as the "ten years' conflict." 
disruptive (dis-rup'tiv), a. [< disrupt + -ive.] 
1. Causing or tending to cause disruption; 
rending ; bursting or breaking through. 
Nor can we imagine a cohesive tenacity so great that it 
might not be overcome by some still greater disruptive 
force such as we can equally well imagine. 
J. Puke, Cosmic Philos., I. 5. 
It [his death] let loose all the disruptive forces which 
Bedford had been able to keep in subjection. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 339. 
2. Produced by or following on disruption : as, 
disruptive effects. Disruptive discharge. See dis- 
charge, l. 
disruptiveness (dis-rup'tiv-nes), . The state 
or quality of being disruptive. 
The character which was found to be fundamental in 
sensitive discharges, viz., diimptiixne's, is common to 
both kinds of discharge. 
J. E. II. Gordon, Elect, and Mag., II. 110. 
disrupture (dis-rup'tur), . [< disrupt + -ure, 
after rupture. Of. OF. desrouture, disruption.] 
Disruption; a rending asunder. [Rare.] 
disrupture (dis-rup'tur), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
disruptured, ppr. disrupt itring. [< disrupture, 
n. ] To rupture ; rend ; sever by tearing, break- 
ing, or bursting. [Rare.] 
diss (dis), n. An Algerian name for the Arundo 
tenax, a reedy grass, the fibers of which are used 
for making cordage. 
dissatisfaction (dis-sat-is-fak'shon), n. [< dis- 
satisfy: see satisfaction.'] The s'tate of being 
dissatisfied ; lack of pleasure or content in some 
thing, act, or situation ; uneasiness proceeding 
from the want of gratification, or from disap- 
pointment. 
The ambitious man ... is subject to uneasiness and 
dissatisfaction. Addinon, Spectator. 
= Syn. Discontentment, 'distaste, dislike, displeasure, dis- 
approbation, disappointment, annoyance. 
dissatisfactoriness (dis-sat-is-fak'to-ri-nes), . 
The quality of being dissatisfactory; inability 
to satisfy or give content; a failing to give con- 
tent. 
Sensible he must needs be not only of the shortness and 
uncertainty of sensible enjoyments, but also of their poor- 
ness, emptiness, insufficiency, dissatisfactoriness. 
Sir M. Hate, Enquiry touching Happiness. 
dissatisfactory (dis-sat-is-fak'to-ri), a. [< dis- 
priv. + satisfactory. ~\ Not satisfactory; unsat- 
isfying; displeasing. 
To have reduced the different qualifications in the dif- 
ferent states to one uniform rule would probably have 
been as dissatisfactory to some of the states as difficult 
for the convention. A. Hamilton. 
dissatisfied (dis-sat'is-fid), p. a. 1. Discon- 
tented; not satisfied; not pleased; offended. 
The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft. 
2. Arising from or manifesting dissatisfaction: 
as, a dissatisfied look. 
The camels were groaning laboriously, and the horses 
were standing around in dissatisfied silence in the white 
heat of noon. ffDonovan, Merv, xxiv. 
dissatisfy (dis-sat'is-fi), v. t. ; pret. and pp. dis- 
satisfied, ppr. dissatisfying. [< dis- priv. + sat- 
isfy.'] To render discontented ; displease; frus- 
trate or come short of one's wishes or expec- 
tations. 
When a new government is established, by whatever 
means, the people are commonly dissatisfied. 
Hume, The Original Contract. 
The Italian allies, who had borne so great a share of the 
burthen of Rome's conquests, and who had reaped so 
small a share of their fruits, were naturally dissatisfied 
with their dependent position. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 326. 
1684 
dissavaget (dis-sav'aj), r. t. ; pret. and pp. dis- 
savaged, ppr. dissavaging. [<T dis- priv. + sav- 
age.] To tame ; civilize. 
Those wild kingdoms 
Which I dissavayed and made nobly civil. 
Chapman, Cffisar and Pompey, I. 1. 
disscattert, > t. [ME. deskateren; < des-, dis-, 
L. dis-, apart, + scatter.] To scatter abroad; 
disperse. 
Hit [the silver] is so deskatered bothe hider and thidere, 
That halvendel shal ben stole ar hit come togidere and 
acounted. Political Songs (ed. Wright), p. 337. 
dissceptert, v. t. [< OF. desceptrer, F. descep- 
trer, deprive of a scepter, depose, < des- priv. 
+ sceptre, scepter: see dis- and scepter, v.] To 
deprive of a scepter. 
A hundred kings, whose temples were impall'd 
In golden diadems, set here and there 
With diamonds, and gemmed every where, 
And of their golden virges none disceptred were. 
G. Fletcher, Christ's Triumph on Earth. 
disseatt (dis-sef), v. t. [< dis- priv. -r seat.] 
To unseat ; overthrow. 
Seyton ! I am sick at heart 
When I behold Seyton, I say This push 
Will cheer me ever, or dis-seat me now. 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 3. 
dissect (di-sekf), r. t. [< L. dissectiis, pp. of 
dissecare (> Sp. disecar= Pg. dissecar = F. dis- 
sequer = D. dissekeren = Dan. dissekere = Sw. 
dissekera), cut asunder, cut up, < dis-, asunder, 
+ secure, cut : see section.] 1 . To cut in pieces ; 
divide into parts with or as with a cutting in- 
strument: as, to dissect a fowl. Specifically 
2. To cut in pieces, or separate the distinct 
or elementary parts of, as an animal or a plant, 
for the purpose of studying its organization 
or the functions and morbid affections of its 
organs and tissues ; anatomize. 
Where, with blunted Knives, his Scholars learn 
How to dissect, and the nice Joints discern. 
Conyreve, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, xi. 
Like following life through creatures you dissect, 
You lose it in the moment you detect. 
Pope, Moral Essays, i. 29. 
Hence 3. To examine part by part or point 
by point; treat or consider piecemeal ; analyze, 
as for the purpose of criticism ; describe in de- 
tail : as, to dissect a man's character. 
Chief mastery to dissect 
With long and tedious havoc fabled knights, 
In battle feign'd. Milton, P. L., ix. 29. 
If men can so hardly endure to have the deformity of 
their vices represented to them though very imperfectly 
here, how will they bear the dissecting and laying them 
open in the view of the whole world? 
StUUny fleet. Sermons, I. xi. 
Dissected map or picture, a map or picture mounted 
on a board and divided into more or less irregular parts, 
designed to be joined together as a puzzle. 
Or must every architect invent a little piece of the new 
style, and all put it together at last like a dissected map' 
Ruskin. 
Dissecting aneurism. See aneurism. 
dissected (di-sek'ted), p. a. [Pp. of dissect, v.] 
In bot., deeply cut into numerous segments: 
applied to leaves, etc. 
dissectible (di-sek'ti-bl), a. [< dissect + -4ble.] 
Capable of being dissected. 
dissection (di-sek'shon), n. [= F. dissection = 
Sp. diseccion = Pg. dissecqcto = It. dissezione, < 
L. as if * dissection-), < dissecare, pp. dissectus, 
cut up: see dissect.] 1. The operation of cut- 
ting open or separating into parts. Specifically 
2. The process of ciitting into parts an animal 
or a plant, or a part of one, in such a way as to 
show its structure or to separate one or more 
of its organs or tissues for examination: as, the 
dissection of a dog ; the dissection of a hand or a 
flower. 
In our dissection of lake ice by a beam of heat we no- 
ticed little vacuous spots at the centres of the liquid 
flowers formed by the beam. 
Tyndatt, Forms of Water, p. 119. 
Hence 3. The act of separating anything into 
distinct or elementary parts for the purpose of 
critical examination; treatment or considera- 
tion of something in detail or point by point. 
Such strict enquiries into nature, so true and so perfect 
a dissection of human kind, is the work of extraordinary 
diligence. Granmlle. 
4t. A segment ; a division ; a part. 
All his kindnesses are not only in their united forms 
but in their several dissections fully commendable. 
Si'r P. Sidney, Def. of Poesie, p. 554. 
Canonical dissection. See canonical. 
dissector (di-sek'tor), n. [= F. dissecteur = 
Sp. disector = Pg. dissector = It. dissettore, < 
NL. "dissector, < L. dissecare, pp. dissectiis, dis- 
sect: see dissect.] One who dissects ; one who 
practises dissection for the purpose of study- 
lis-sez'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. disseized, 
izing. [Also disseise; < OF. desseisir, 
dissemble 
ing or demonstrating organization and func- 
tions. 
disseize (dis-sez 
ppr. 
disseisir, dessaisif, F. dessaisir (= Pr. dessazir), 
dispossess, < des-, dis-, priv., + seisir, saisir, take 
possession of: see dis- and seise.] In law, to 
dispossess wrongfully ; deprive of actual seizin 
or possession: followed by of: as, to disseize a 
tenant of his freehold. See disseizin. 
Then thus gan Jove : Right true it is, that these 
And all things else that under heaven dwell 
Are chaung'd of Time, who doth them all disseise 
Of being. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 48. 
A man may frequently suppose himself to be disseised, 
when he is not so in fact. Blackstone, Com., III. 10. 
And pilfering what I once did give, 
Disseize thee of thy right. 
6. Herbert, Submission. 
disseizee (dis-se-ze'), n. [< disseize + -ee 1 .] 
In law, a person unlawfully put out of posses- 
sion of an estate. Also spelled disseisee. 
disseizin (dis-se'zin), n. [Also disseisin; < OF. 
(AF.) disseisin, m., disseisine, desseisine, dessai- 
sine, f., disseizin, < disseisir, dessaisir, disseize: 
see disseize, and cf . seizin.] In law : (a) In the 
most general sense, the wrongful privation of 
seizin ; ouster. (&) In old Eng. law, the violent 
termination of seizin by the actual ouster of 
the feudal tenant, and the usurpation of his 
place and relation. It was a notorious and tortious 
act on the part of the disseizor, by which he put himself 
in the place of the disseizee, and, in the character of 
tenant of the freehold, made his appearance at the lord's 
court. {Kent.) In more modern use it includes silent en- 
try and usurpation of enjoyment, under pretense of right, 
with or without title. Assize of novel disseizin, an ob- 
solete common-law writ for the recovery of land, where the 
demandant himself had been turned out of possession. 
Disseizin by election, a legal fiction by which the owner 
was permitted to admit that he had been disseized, irre- 
spective of the actual fact of technical disseizin, in order 
to have a remedy against the adverse claimant. Equi- 
table disseizin, the loss or deprivation of an equitable 
seizin : a term sometimes used, but disapproved by the 
highest authorities. (Compare, for the analogies afforded 
by similar phrases, equitable waste, nnder waste; equita- 
ble estate, under estate ; and equitable seizin, under seizin.) 
disseizor (dis-se'zpr), n. [Also disseisor, dis- 
seiser; < OF. (AF.) disseisor, disseisour, < dis- 
seisir, disseize : see disseize.] In law, one who 
wrongfully dispossesses another, or puts an- 
other out of possession. 
Where ent'ring now by force, thou hold'st by might, 
And art disseiser of another's right. 
Drayton, Barons' Wars, iii. 
disseizoress (dis-se'zor-es), n. [< disseizor + 
-ess.] In law, a woman who wrongfully puts 
another out of possession. Also spelled dis- 
seisoress. [Rare.] 
disselboom (dis'el-bom), n. [D., the pole of 
a wagon, < dissel, axletree, + boom, pole, boom, 
beam : see beam, boom?. ] The neap or pole of 
an ox-wagon. [South African.] 
I took the only precaution in my power, viz., to unfas- 
ten the chain, trek-tow, from the disselboom, so that that 
Important portion of my gear should not act as a conduc- 
tor to the inflammable part of my load. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXIX. 619. 
dissemblablet (di-sem'bla-bl), a. [< OF. des- 
semblable, F. dissemblable '(= Sp. desemejable), 
< dessembler, be different: see dissemble, and 
cf. semblable.] Not resembling; dissimilar. 
Puttenham. 
dissemblance 1 (di-sem'blans), . [< OF. des- 
semblance, F. dissemblance (= Pr. dessemblanza 
= Sp. desemblanza, desemejama = Pg. desseme- 
Ihanya = It. dissimiglianza), < dessemblant, un- 
like, different, ppr. of dessembler, be unlike : 
see dissemble, and cf. semblance.] Want of re- 
semblance; dissimilarity. [Rare.] 
Nor can there be a greater dissemblance between one 
wise man and another. Osborne, Advice to a Son. 
It must, however, be remembered that the dissemblance 
of the hieroglyphic and hieratic characters appears great- 
er than it really is. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 100. 
dissemblance 2 ! (di-sem'blans), n. [< dissemble 
+ -ance; the same in form as dissemblance 1 , 
but with sense due directly to dissemble.] The 
act of or faculty for dissembling. 
I wanted those old instruments of state, 
Dissemblance and suspect. 
Marston and Webslfi; The Malcontent, i. 4. 
Without dissemblance he is deep in age. 
Middlcton, The Phoenix, i. 1. 
dissemble (di-sem'bl), t: ; pret. and pp. dis- 
sembled, ppr. dissembling. [< OF. dessembler, 
dessambld^, F. dissembler, be unlike (cf. OF. des- 
sembler, dessambler, dcssenbler, dessanbler, sepa- 
rate, disjoin, divide opposed to assembler, as- 
semble : see assemble), = Pr. Cat. dessembler = 
Sp. desemejar, be unlike, dissemble, = Pg. des- 
