disturb 
dcstorliii r, ili-xlurliirr = Pr. OSp. dcstorbar = 
Sp. Pg. distiiiiutr = It. dinturltnn-, slurbare, < L. 
dixturbare, drive asunder, separate by violence, 
disorder, disturb, < din-, apart, + turbare, dis- 
order, throw into confusion, trouble : see tur- 
bulent, trouble. Cf. distrouble.] 1. To stir; 
trouble; agitate; molest; move from a state 
of rest or tranquillity: as, to disturb a sleeper; 
to disturb the sediment. 
It he be at In - )xx>k, disturb him not. 
B. Juiumn, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 
2. To move or agitate ; discompose ; disquiet ; 
throw into perplexity or confusion. 
You groan, air, ever since the morning light, 
A> something had diiturb'd your noble sprite. 
Dryden, fuck and Fox. 
We seldom mix long in conversation without meeting 
with some accident that ruffles and disturbs us. 
Bp. Alterbury, Sermons, I, x. 
I feared my brain was disturbed by my sufferings and 
misfortunes. Su<ift, Gulliver's Travels, iv. 2. 
Preparing to disturb 
With all-confounding war the realms above. 
Courper, Iliad, xt. 
3. To interfere with; interrupt; hinder; in- 
commode; derange. 
For which men seyn may nought disturbed be 
That shall bytyden of necessite. 
Chaucer, Troilus, II. 622. 
Care disturbs study. Johnson. 
The utmost which the discontented colonies could do 
wns to disturb authority. Burke. 
4. To turn aside ; cause to deviate ; throw out 
of course or order. 
And disturb 
His inmost counsels from their destined aim. 
Hilton, P. L., i. 187. 
= Syn. 1. To disorder, unsettle, molest. 2. To perplex, 
trouble, annoy, vex, worry, plague. 3. To impede, inter- 
rupt. 
disturb! (dis-t6rb'), n. [(.disturb, v.] Disturb- 
ance. 
Instant without disturb they took alarm, 
And onward moved embattel'd. 
Milton, P. L, vl. 549. 
disturbance (dis-ter'bans), n. [< ME. disturb- 
ance, destourbaitce, de'stourbaunce, < OF. des- 
tourbance, desturbance, disturbance, disturbance 
(= It. disturbanza, sturbcmza), < destourber, dis- 
turber, disturb: see disturb.'] 1. Interruption 
of arrangement or order ; violent change ; de- 
rangement: as, a disturbance of the electric 
current. 
The latest measurements tell us that a light-prodacii 
disturbance travels at the rate of 186,000 miles In a secom 
of time. J. ff. Lockyer, Spect. Anal., p. 28. 
2. An interruption of thought or conversation; 
as, to read without disturbance. 
Sylvia enjoyed her own thoughts, and any conversation 
would have been a disturbance to her. 
Mrs. Gatkell, Sylvia's Lovers, viii. 
3. A violent interruption of the peace ; a vio- 
lent stir or excitement tending to or manifested 
in a breach of the peace ; a tumult; an uproar; 
in a more extended sense, public disorder ; agi- 
tation in the body politic. 
The disturbance was made to support a general accusa- 
tion against the province. Bancroft. 
4. Emotion or disorder of the mind ; agitation ; 
perturbation; confusion: as, the merchant re- 
ceived the news of his losses without apparent 
disturbance. 
They can survey a variety of complicated ideas without 
fatigue or disturbance. Watts, Improvement of Mind, 
5. In law, the wrongful obstruction of the 
owner of an incorporeal hereditament in its 
exercise or enjoyment: as, the disturbance of 
a franchise, of common, of ways, or of tenure. 
Stephen. 
disturbantt (dis-ter'bant), a. [< L. distur- 
Ixi n ( ?-)., ppr. of disturbare t disturb : see disturb.] 
Causing disturbance ; agitating; turbulent. 
Every man is a vast and spacious sea ; his passions are 
the winds that swell him in disturbant waves. 
Feltham, Resolves, I. 62. 
disturbationt (dis-ter-ba'shon), n. [= OF. des- 
tourbeson, destorbeson = It. stitrbazione, < LL. 
disturbatio(n-), destruction, < L. disturbare, pp. 
disturbatua, trouble, disturb, destroy: see dis- 
turb.'] Disturbance. 
Since by this way 
All future disturbations would desist. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, Hi. 
disturber (dis-ter'ber), n. 1. One who disturbs 
or disquiets; a violator of peace or harmony; 
one who causes tumult or disorder. 
He stands in the sight both of God and men most justly 
blaniiililf, ;is a needless dixturbt'r of the peace of God's 
church, and on author of dissension. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
1000 
2. One who or that which excites disgust, agi- 
tation, or tumult ; that which causes perturba- 
tion. 
And [they] wente the right wey to Sorhant wlth-out cny 
other disturbier, and were gladde and mery after the aven- 
ture that was hem befallen. Merlin (. E. T. 8.X u. 240. 
Two deep enemies, 
Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep's disturbers, 
Are they that I would have thee deal upon. 
Shot., Rich. HI., iv. 2. 
3. In in a-, one who hinders or incommodes an- 
other in the peaceable enjoyment of his rights. 
disturblancet, . [ME. distnrblaunce, < distur- 
blen, distroublen, disturb: see distroublc, andcf. 
disturbance.] Trouble; disturbance. Bp. Pe- 
cock, Represser, I. 86. 
disturnt (dis-tern'), v. t. [< OF. destourner, 
destorner,F. detourner = It. distornare, stomare, 
< ML. distornare, turn aside or away, < L. dis-, 
away, + tornare, turn: see turn.'] To turn 
aside. 
Thl fader, prey, al thllke harm disturne. 
Chaucer, Troilus, 111. 718. 
Olad was to disturne that furious streame 
Of war on us, that else had swallowed them. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, iv. 20. 
distutor (dis-tu'tor), v. t. [< dw-priv. + tutor.] 
To divest of the office or rank of a tutor. 
Being found guilty of a strange, singular, and supersti- 
tious way of dealing with his scholars, he was distutorfd. 
Wood, A theme Oxon., II. 636. 
distyle (dis'til), a. and n. [= F. distyle, < Gr. 
*iioTvfo(, < Si-, two-, + orW.or, column, style: 
see style'.] I. a. Noting a portico of two col- 
umns: applied rather to a portico with two 
columns in antis than to a plain two-columned 
porch. See cut under anta. 
The coin shows a small distyle temple on a rock, flanked 
by two toll terminal figures, and by two cypress trees. 
B. V. Head, HUtoria Numorum, p. 347. 
The favourite arrangement was a group of pillars "dis- 
tyle in antis," as it Is technically termed, viz., two circu- 
lar pillars between two square piers. 
J. Fergutson, Hist Arch., 1. 184. 
II. . A portico of two columns, 
disulphate (di-sul'fat), n. [< di-2 + sulphate.] 
1. In chem., a sulphate containing a hydrogen 
atom replaceable by a basic element or radi- 
cal; an acid sulphate. 2. A sulphate haying 
the general formula R^iigO*; a salt of disul- 
phuric acid : as, potassium disulphate, KoSgOy. 
disulphid (di-sul'fid), n. [< dt-2 + sulphid.] 
In chem., a sulphid containing two atoms of 
sulphur. 
disulpho-. In chem., in composition, indicating 
certain acids formed by substituting two radi- 
cals having the formula SO2OH for two hydro- 
gen atoms in a hydrocarbon. 
disulphuric (dl-sul-fu'rik), a. [< <i- 2 + sul- 
phuric.] Containing two sulphuric-acid radi- 
cals. Used only in the following phrase Di- 
aulphurlc acid, an acid, HgSaO?, formed: in the manu- 
facture of Xordhausen sulphuric acid and separated from 
It in white crystals. It decomposes easily, but forms stable 
salts. Also called pyrosulphuric acid. 
disunifprmt (dis-u'ni-f6rm), a. [< dis- priv. 
+ uniform.] Not uniform. 
disunion (dis-u'nyqn), n. [= F. desunion = Sp. 
ili'Kiiiiion = Pg. desuniSo = It. disunione; as 
dis- priv. + union.] 1. Severance of union; 
separation; disjunction; rupture. 
The royal preacher in my text, assuming that man is a 
compound of an organized body and an immaterial soul, 
places the formality and essence of death in the disunion 
and final separation of these two constituent parts. 
Bp. Horsley, Works, III. xxxix. 
If disunion was out of the question, consolidation was 
not less repugnant to their feelings and opinions. 
J. C. Calhoun, Works, I. 193. 
2. A breach of amity ; rupture of union in feel- 
ing or opinion ; contentious disagreement. 
That rub, which must prove fatal to Ireland in a short 
time, and might grow to such a disunion between the two 
Houses as might much cloud the happiness of this king- 
dom. Clarendon, Civil War, I. 327. 
disunionist (dis-u'nypn-ist), n. [< disunion + 
-ist.] An advocate of disunion ; specifically, in 
U. S. hist., one of those who, prior to and dur- 
ing the civil war of 1861-65, favored or sought 
the disruption of the United States. 
It would do for the disunionists that which of all things 
they most desire feed them well, and give them dis- 
union without a struggle of their own. 
Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 143. 
The Federalists characterized their opponents . . . as 
disorganizes, disunionists, and traitors. 
//. Adamt, Albert Gallatln, it. 162. 
disunite (dis-u-nif), v. ; pret. and pp. disunited, 
ppr. disuniting. K LL. disunitus, pp. of disunire 
(> It. disunire = Sp. Pg. desunir = OF. desunir, 
desuner, F. ilctntitir), disjoin, < L. dis- priv. + 
LL. unire, unite : see dis- and unite.] I, traits. 
disvantageous 
1. To separate; disjoin; part: as, to disunite 
particles of matter. 
The beast they then divide, and disunitr 
The ribs and limbs. Pope, Odyssey, III. 
2. To set at variance ; alienate. 
Oo on both hand in hand, O Nations; never be disu- 
nited; be the praise and the heroick song of all posterity. 
Miiinii, Reformation In Eng., II. 
II. i a trims. To part; fall asunder; become 
divided. 
The several joint* of the body politic do separate and 
disunite. South. 
disunite! (dis-u-ni'ter), n. One who or that 
which disjoins or separates, 
disunity (dis-u'ni-ti), n. [< <Ji-priv. + unity.] 
1. Want of unity ; a state of separation. 
Disunity is the natural property of matter. 
Dr. II. Morr. 
2. The absence of unity of feelings or inter- 
ests; want of concord. 
disusage (dis-u'zaj), n. [< dis- priv. + usage. 
Cf. disuse.] Gradual cessation of use or cus- 
tom ; neglect or relinquishment of use or prac- 
tice. 
They cut off presently such things as might be extin- 
guished without danger, leaving the rest to be abolished 
by disusaye through tract of time. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
disuse (dis-uz'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. disused, ppr. 
disusing. [< ME. disusen, < OF. desuser (= 8p. 
Pg. desusar = It. disusare), disuse, < des- priv. 
+ user, use: see dis- and use, v.] To cease to 
use ; neglect or omit to employ ; abandon or 
discard from exercise or practice. 
This custom was probably ditnised before their invasion 
or conquest. Sir T. Browne, Urn-burial, ii. 
disuse (dis-us'),"- [< disuse, r. Cf. use, n.] 1. 
Cessation of use, practice, or exercise: as, disuse 
of wine; disuse of sea-bathing; disuse of words. 
It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing 
of means and machinery which were introduced with loua 
laudation a few years or centuries before. 
Emerson, Self-reliance. 
2. Cessation of custom or observance ; desue- 
tude. 
Church discipline then fell into disuse. Southey. 
disused (dis-uzd'), p. a. 1. No longer used; 
abandoned; obsolete: as, disused words. 
Arms long disused. Sir J. Denham, .llm-id, ii. 11. 
The tortures of the former modes of punishment are dis- 
used. Ectrett, Orations, II. 200. 
Below Its piers stand several Moorish mills, disused, but 
as yet unbroken by age or floods. 
Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 88. 
2. Disaccustomed; not wonted or habituated : 
with in or to, and formerly sometimes icith : as, 
disused to toil. 
Like men disused in a long peace ; more determinate to 
do, than skilful how to do. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
Priam in arms disused. Dryden. 
disutility (dis-u-til'i-ti), n. [= It. disutilitA; 
as dis- priv. + utility.] The state or quality 
of producing harm, hindrance, injury, or other 
undesirable conditions : the opposite or nega- 
tive of utility. 
For the abstract notion, the opposite or negative of util- 
ity, we may invent the term disutility, which will mean 
something different from inutility, or the absence of util- 
ity. Jcoons, Pol. Econ., ill. 
disutilize (dis-u'til-Iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. die- 
utilized, ppr. disutilizing, [< dis- priv. -r util- 
ize.] To divert from a useful purpose ; render 
useless. 
Annulled the gift, disutUixd the grace. Brouning. 
disvaluation (dis-val-u-a'shon), n. [< disvalue 
+ -ation, after valuation.] Disesteem; dis- 
paragement. [Bare.] 
What can be more strange or more to the disvaluation 
of the power of the Spaniard? Bacon, War with Spain. 
disvaluet (dis-val'u), r. t. [< dis- priv. -r- val- 
ue.] To diminish in value; depreciate; dis- 
parage. 
Her reputation was disvalued 
In levity. Shot., M. for M., v. 1. 
It is at least necessary that virtue be not disvalued and 
imbased under the just price. 
Biniin, Advancement of Learning, ii. 336. 
disvaluet (dis-val'u), . [< disralue, v.] Dis- 
esteem; disregard. 
Csar's self [is] 
Brought In dismlue. B. Jonson, Sejanus, lii. 
disvantageoust (dis-van-ta'jus), a. [(= It, dif- 
rantaggioso) contr. of disadvantageous.] Dis- 
advantageous. 
Warwick by and by 
With his left wing came up, and charg'd so home and 
round, 
That had not his Hunt horse by disrantaveous ground 
Been hiuder'd, he had struck the heart of Edward's host. 
Draylon, Polyolbiou, xxii. 
