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DTSBELTE'F,/ Refufal of credit; denial of belief.— 
Our belief or difbelief of a tiling does not alter the nature 
of the thing. Tillotfon. 
To DISBELIE'V"E, v.a. Not to credit; not to hold 
true.—Sucli who profefs to di/be'lieve a future ftate, are 
not always equally fatisfied with their own reafonings. 
Atterhcry. 
DISBEI.IE'VER, f. One who refufes belief; one 
who denies any pofition to be true.—An humble foul is 
frighted into fentiments, becaufe a man of great name 
pronounces herefy upon the contrary fentiments, and carts 
the difbelicver out of the church. Watts. 
To DISBE'NCH, v.a. To drive from a feat: 
Sir, I hope 
My words difbench'd you not ? 
-No, Sir; yet oft, 
When blows have made me rtay, I fled from words. Shake/. 
To DISBO'WEL, v. a. To take out bowels; to gut: 
A great oak dry and dead, 
Yet clad with reliques of fome trophies old, 
That half diJboweTd lies above the ground. 
Showing her wreathed roots. Spenfer. 
It is become the more necelfary to remind Englirtt writers 
of the exirtence and legitimacy of this word, as Mr. Burke 
has vicioufly employed in its ftead the word embowel , which 
is regularly compounded of in and bowel, and fignifies juft 
the reverfe; as, to embowelfavj,'age-meat. To difbowcl is to 
take out bowels; to embowel is to put into bowels; and 
to d/embowel is to take out that which has been put into 
bowels. Monthly Mag. 
To DISBRA'NCH, v. a. To feparate or break off, as 
a branch from a tree.—Such as are newly planted, need 
not be dijbranchcd till the fap begins to ftir, that fo the 
wound may be healed without the fear. Evelyn. 
To DISBU'D, v.a. [With gardeners.] To take away 
the branches or fprigs newly put forth, that are ill placed. 
To DISBUR'DEN, v. a. To eafe of a burden ; to un¬ 
load.—The river, with ten branches or ftreams, difburdens 
himfelf within the Perfian fea, Peacham .—To difencurn- 
ber, difeharge, or clear.—They removed either by ca- 
fualty and tempeft, or by intention and defign, either out 
of lucre of gold, or for the di/burdening of the countries 
furcharged with multitudes of inhabitants. Hale .—To 
throw off a burden : 
Lucia, dijbitrden all. thy cares on me, 
And let me (hare thy molt retir’d diftrefs. Addifon. 
To DISBUR'DEN, v. n. To eafe the mind ; 
In a troubled fea of paftion tort, 
Thus to dijburdcn fought with fad complaint. Milton. 
To throw off a load: 
Where nature multiplies 
Her fertile growth, and by di/burdening grows 
More fruitful. Milton. 
To DISBUR'SE, v.a. [ debourfer , Fr.] To fpend or 
lay out money.—‘As Alexander received great fums, he 
was no lefs generous and liberal in di/burfine of them. 
Arbuthnot. 
DISBURSEMENT,/. [ debourfement , Fr.] Adi of dif- 
burfing or laying out.—The queen’s treafure, in fo 
great occafions of difburfements, is not always fo ready, 
nor fo plentiful, as it can fpare fo great a fum together. 
Spenfer. —Sum fpent. 
DISBUR'SER, f. One that difburfes. 
DISC. See Disk. 
DISC AL'CEA l ED, adj. [d/caleeatus, Lat.] Stripped 
of fhoes. 
DISCALCEA'TION, f. The adt of pulling off the 
fhoes.—The cuftom of difcalccation, or putting off their 
fhoes at meals, is conceived to have been done, as by 
that means keeping their beds clean. Brown. 
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To DISCAN'DY, v.n. Todilfolve; to melt: 
The hearts 
That fpaniel’d me at heels, to whom I gave 
Their wilhes, do di/candy, melt their fweets 
On blortoming CaAar. Shakefpeare. 
To DISCA'RD, v. a. To throw out of the hand fuch 
cards as are ufelels. To difmifs or ejedt from fervice or 
employment.—Juftice difeards party, friendlhip, kindred, 
and is always therefore reprefented as blind. Addifon. 
DISCA'RNATE, adj. [ \dis ,‘ and caro, flefli ; jearnato , 
Ital.] Stripped of flefli.—’Tis better to own a judg¬ 
ment, though but with a curta fuppellex of coherent no¬ 
tions ; than a memory, like a fepulchre, furnifhed with 
a load of broken and difearnate bones. Glanvillc. 
To DISCA'SE, v. a. To ftrip ; to undrefs : 
Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell: 
I will di/cafe me, and myfelf prefent. Shakefpeare. 
DISCEPTA'TION, f. A deputation, debating, or 
arguing. 
To DISCE'RN, v.a. [difeerno , Lat.] To defery ; to 
fee ; to difeover.—And behold among the Ample ones, 
I difeerned among the youths a young man void of under- 
rtanding. Prov. vii. 7.—To judge ; to have knowledge 
of by comparifon.—What doth better become wifdom 
than to difeern what is worthy the loving? Sidney .—To 
dirtinguifh.—To difeern fuch buds as are fit to produce 
bloffoms, from fuch as will difplay themfelves but in 
leaves, is no difficult matter. Boyle .—To make the dif¬ 
ference between: 
They follow virtue for reward to-day ; 
To-morrow vice, if (he give better pay: 
We are fo good, or bad, juft at a price ; 
For nothing elf edfeerns the virtue or the vice. Ben Jonfon. 
To DISCE'RN, v. n. To make diftinCtion.—The cuf¬ 
tom of arguing on any fide, even againft our perfuaflons, 
dims the underftanding, and makes it by degrees lofe the 
faculty of difeerning between truth and falfhood. Locke .— 
To have judicial cognizance : not in ife. —It difeerneth of 
forces, frauds, crimes various of fteliionate, and the in- 
choations towards crimes capital, not actually perpe¬ 
trated. Bacon. 
DISCER'NER, f. Difcoverer ; he that deferies : 
’Twas faid they faw but one; and no d/cerner 
Durft wag his tongue in cenfure. Shakefpeare. 
Judge; one that has the power of diftinguifhing.—He 
was a great obferver and d/cerner of men’s natures and 
humours,.and was very dexterous in compliance, where 
he found it ufeful. Clarendon. 
DISCER'NIBLE, adj. Difcoverable; perceptible; 
dirtinguilhable ; apparent.—It is indeed a fin of fo grofs, 
fo formidable a bulk, that there needs no help of optics 
to render it di/ccrnible, and therefore I need not farther 
expatiate on it. Government of the Tongue. 
DISCER'NIBLENESS, /. Vifiblenefs. 
DISCER'NIBLY, adv. Perceptibly; apparently.— 
Confider %vhat doCtrines are infufed difcernibly among!! 
Chriftians, mod apt to obftruCI or interrupt the Chriftian 
life. Hammond. 
DISCER'NING, part. adj. Judicious; knowing.— 
This hath been maintained not only by warm enthufiafts, 
but by cooler and more difeerning heads. Atterbury . 
DISCER'NING,/ Faculty: 
Either his notion weakens, or his di/ccrnings 
Are lethargied. Shakefpeare. 
DISCER'NINGLY, adv. Judicioufly ; rationally;, 
acutely.—Thefe two errors Ovid has molt dijcerningly 
avoided. Garth. 
DISCERN'MENT, / Judgment; power of difirin- 
guiftiing.—A reader that wants d/cernment, loves and ad¬ 
mires the characters and aCtions of men in a wrong place. 
Freeholder. 
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