D I S 
D I S 
DISCOMMEN'DER, /. One that difcommcmls; a 
difpraifer. 
To DISCOMMO'DE, v. a. To put to inconvenience; 
to moled ; to incommode. 
DISCOMMO'DIOUS, adj. Inconvenient; trouble- 
fome; unpleafing.—'So many thoufand foldiers, unfit for 
any labour, or other trade, mud either feek fervice and 
employment abroad, which may be dangerous; or elfe 
employ themfelves here at home, which may be difcom- 
viodious. Spcnfer. 
DISCOMMO'DITY,/. Inconvenience; difadvantage; 
hurt; mifchief.—We fpeak now of ufury, how the dif- 
commodities of it may be bed avoided, and the commodities 
retained : or how> in the balance of commodities and dif- 
commoditics, the qualities of ufury are to be reconciled. 
Bacon. 
To DISCOM'PANY, v. a. To clear of company.— 
This is, if die be alone now and difeompanied. Ben Jonfon. 
To DISCOMPO'SE, v. a. \_de'covipoJ'er , l ? r.] To difor- 
der ; to unfettle.—.The debate upon the felf-denying or¬ 
dinance had raifed many jealoufies, and difeompofed the 
confidence that had formerly been between many of them. 
Clarendon .—To ruffle ; to diforder : 
Now Betty from her mader’s bed had flown, 
And foftly dole to difeompofe her own. Swift. 
To didurb the temper; to agitate by perturbation: 
No more, dear mother : ill in death it fliows, 
Your peace of mind by rage to difeompofe. Dryden. 
To offend ; to fret; to vex.—Men, who. poffefs all the 
advantages of life, are in a date where there are many 
accidents to diforder and difeompofe, but few to pleafe 
them. Swift .—To difplace ; to difeard : not in afe .— 
Though he was a dark prince, and infinitely fufpicious, 
lie never put down or difeompofed a counfellor or near fer- 
vant. Bacon. 
DISCOMPC'SURE, f. Diforder; perturbation.—He 
threw himfelf upon his bed, lamenting with much paf- 
fion, and with abundance of tears ; and continued in this 
melancholic dijeompofure of mind many days. Clarendon. 
To DISCONCE'RT, v. a. To unfettle the mind ; to 
difeompofe.—You need not provoke their fpiritsby out¬ 
rages: a carelefs gedure, a word, or a look, is enough 
to difconcert them. Collier .—To break a fcheme ; to defeat 
a machination. 
DISCONFOR'MITY, f. Want of agreement; incon- 
fidency.—L.ies arife from error and midake, or malice 
and forgery; they confid in the difagreement and di/con¬ 
formity betwixt the fpeech and the conceptions of the 
mind, or the conceptions of the mind and the things 
themfelves, or the fpeech and the things. Hakewill. 
DISCONGRU'ITY, f. Difagreement; inconfidency. 
.—There is a want of capacity in the thing, to fudain 
fuch a duration, from the intrinfical dfcongruity of the 
one to the other. Hale. 
DISCONNECT'ED, ad], DifTolved.—The common¬ 
wealth itfelf would in a few generations be dfconneEicd 
into the dud and powder of individuals. Burke. 
DISCONNECT ION, f. Want of union.—Nothing 
was therefore to be left in all the fubordinate members, 
but weaknefs, dfconneElior., and confufion. Burke. 
DISCON'SOLATE, adj. Void of comfort; hopelefs; 
forrowful ; melancholy.—The moon refiedts the fun- 
beams to us, and fo, by illuminating the air, takes away 
‘in forne meafure the difconfolate darknefs of our winter 
nights. Ray. 
The ladies and the knights, no fhelter nigh, 
Were dropping wet, difconfolate and wan. 
And through their thin array receiv’d the rain. Dryden. 
DISCONSOLATELY, adv. In a difconfolate man¬ 
ner ; comfoitlefsly. 
DISCON'SOLATENESS, /. The date of being dif¬ 
confolate. 
DISCONTE'NT,/. Want of content; uneafinefs at 
the prefent date : 
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I fee your brow's full of difcqntent. 
Your hearts ot Torrows, and your eyes of tears. Shahefp. 
A difeontented perfon.—Of fickle changelings, and yoor 
difeontevts. Shahcfpcare. 
DISCONTE'NT, adj. Uneafy at the prefent date ; 
didatisfied.—They were of their own nature circumfpect 
and flow, difcountenanced and difeontent ; and thofe the 
earl fingled as fitted for his purpofe. Hayward. 
To DISCONTE'NT, v. a. To dilfatisfy; to make un¬ 
eafy at the prefent date : 
I know a difeontented gentleman, 
Whofe humble means match not his haughty fpirit. 
Shakefpeare. 
DISCONTENT'ED, participial adj. Uneafy; cheer- 
lefs; malevolent.—Thefe are, beyond comparison, the 
two greated evils in this world; a difeafed body, and a 
difeontented mind. Tillotfon. 
The goddefs, with a difeontentid air, 
Seems to rejedt him, tho’ flte grants his pray’r. Pope. 
DISCONTENT'EDLY, adv. In a difeontented mood. 
•—Chloris in defpair drowms herfelf; and prince Pretty- 
man 'difcontentedly walks by the river-fide. Rehearfal. 
DISCONTENT'EDNESS, f. Uneafinefs ; want of 
eafe ; dilfatisfablion.—A beautiful bud of Alexander the 
Great cads up his face to heaven with a noble air of 
grief, or difeontentednefs, in his looks. Addifon. 
DISCONTENT'MENT, J'. The date of being dif¬ 
eontented ; uneafinefs.—The politic and artificial nou- 
rifliing and entertaining of hopes, and carrying men from 
hopes to hopes, is one of the bed antidotes againd the 
poifon of dijcontentments. Bacon. 
DISCONTINUANCE, f. Want of cohefion of parts; 
want of union of one part with another; difruption.— 
The dillicides of water, if there be enough to follow', 
w'ill draw themfelves into a fmall thread, becaufe they 
will not difeontinue ; but if there be no remedy, then 
they cad themfelves into round drops, which is the figure 
that faveth the body mod from dfcontinuance. Bacon .— 
Ceflation ; intermifiion.—Let us confider whether our ap¬ 
proaches to him are fweet and refrefliing, and if we are 
uneafy under any long dfcontinuance of our convcrfation 
with him. Atterbury. 
DISCONTINUANCE, /! in law, is an interruption 
or breaking oft’; as, dijtwitinuancc of pofleffion, difconlinu- 
ance of plea, dfcontinuance of procefs, & c. Discontinu¬ 
ance of Possession happens, when he who hath an ef- 
tate-tail, maketh a larger edate of the land than by law 
he is intitled to do ; in which cafe the edate is good, fo 
far as his pow'er extends who made it, but no farther. 
As if tenant in tail makes a feoffment in fee-finvple, or 
for the life of the feoffee, crin tail; all which are beyond 
his power legally to make, for that by the common law 
extends no farther than to make a leafe for his owm life,: 
in fuch cafe, the entry of the feoffee is lawful during the 
life of the feoffor ; but if he retains the podeflion after 
the death of the feoffor, it is an injury which is termed a 
difcontinuance ; the ancient leg • 1 edate, which ought 
to have furvived to the heir in tail being gone ; or at lead 
fufpended, and for a while difeontinued. For, in this 
cafe, on the death of the alienors, neither the heir in tail, 
nor they in remainder or reverfion expectant oh the de¬ 
termination of the edate-tail, can enter on and poffefs the 
land fo aliened, but mud bring their writ,.and feek to re¬ 
cover poffefiion by law. 3 Comm. 172. 1 Inf. 325. 
In the cafe of a dideifin, while the podeflion remains 
in the diffeifor, it is a mere naked poffefiion unfupported 
by any right; and the diffeifee may reftore his own po.f- 
feflion, and put a total end to the polfeflion of the diffeifor 
by an entry on the land, without any previous adtion ; 
but if the diffeifor dies, his heir comes to the pofiedion 
of the effate by a lawful title ; it is the fame if the dif¬ 
feifor aliens; the alienee com.es in by a lawful title. By 
reafon of this lawful title, the heir in the fil'd indance, 
and the alienee in the fecond, acquires a prefumptiv'e 
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