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DISD AIN'FUL, adj. Contemptuous; haughtily fcorn- 
ful; indignant.—There will come a time when three 
words, uttered with charity and meeknefs, fhall receive 
a far more bleffed reward, than three thoufand volumes, 
written with difdainful lharpnefs of wit. Hooker. 
DISD AIN'FULLY,i2<fo.Conternptuoufly; with haugh¬ 
ty fcorn ; with indignation.—It is not to infult and do¬ 
mineer, to look disdainfully , and revile imperioufly, that 
procures efteera from any one. South. 
Either greet him not, 
Or elfe difdainfully, which fhall fhake him more. Shake/. 
DISDfVIN'FULNESS, f. Contempt; contemptuouf- 
nefs; haughty fcorn.—A proud difdainfulnefs of other 
men, Afc'iam. 
DISDIAPA'SON, f. in mufic, a compound concord, 
in the quadruple ratio of four to one, being a fifteenth 
or double eighth, and is produced when the voice goes 
from the firft tone to the fifteenth. 
DISEA'SE,/. Diftemper; malady; ficknefs ; morbid 
ftate. See the article Medicine. — And Afa, in the 
thirty and ninth year of his reign, was difeafcd in his 
feet, and his di/cafe was exceeding great; and in his dif- 
eafe he fought not to the Lord, but to the phyficians. 
Chronicles. 
Then wafleful fortli 
Walks the dire pow’r of peftilent difeafe. Thomfon. 
Uneafinefs: 
So all that night they part in great difeafe. 
Till that the morning, bringing early light 
To guide men’s labours, brought them alfo eafe. Spenf. 
‘bit is good to nip the Disease in its bud.” That is, 
to counteraft its evil tendency before it be got to a head. 
The Latins fay, Veniente occurrite morbo, or principiis obfa. 
This proverb may be applied to all the evils of human 
life, which it were eafier and wifer to prevent, than to 
cure. 
To DISEA'SE, v. a. To afflict with difeafe ; to tor¬ 
ment with pain or ficknefs ; to make morbid ; to infect. 
•—He was difeajed in his feet, i Kings. 
Flatt’rers yet wear filk, drink wine, lie foft, 
And hug difeas'd perfumes. Shakefpeare. 
To put to pain; to pain; to make uneafy.—Though 
great light be infufferable to our eyes, yet the lvigheft 
degree of darknefs does not at all difeafe them. Locke. 
DISEA'SED, part. Diftempered, afflidted with fome 
malady. 
DISE A'SEDNESS,/. Sicknefs; morbidnefs; the ftate 
of being difeafed.—'This is a reftoration to fome former 
ftate ; not thatftate of indigency and difeafednefs. Burnet. 
DISED'GED, adj. Blunted; ohtunded; dulled: 
T grieve myfelf 
To think, when thou fhalt be difedg'd by her 
Whom now thou tir’fl on, how thy memory 
Will then be pang’d by me. Shakefpeare. 
DI'SEL, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chora- 
fan : eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Herat. 
To DISEMBA'RK, v. a. To carry to land: 
1 mu ft unto the road, to difembark 
Some neceffaries. Shakefpeare. 
To DISEMBA'RK, v. n. To land ; to go on land : 
There difembarking on the green fea-fide. 
We land our cattle, and the fpoil divide. Pope. 
To DISEMBIT'TER, v. a. To fweeten ; to free from 
bitternefs ; to clear from acrimony : an unufual word .— 
Encourage fuch innocent amufements as may difembitter 
the minds of men, and make them mutually rejoice in 
the fame agreeable fatisfadtions. Addifon. 
DISEMBO'DIED, adj. Diverted of the body. [Of a 
colledtive body of perfons.] Difcharged from keeping 
together.—And if the fame (corps) fhall be embodied, 
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then within two months after it fhall'be dfembodied, and 
returned to the refpedtive counties. Militia AH. 
To DISEMBO'GUE, v. a. \_difemboucher, old Fr. Skin¬ 
ner.] To pour out at the mouth of a river; to vent: 
Rolling down, the deep Timavus raves. 
And thro’ nine channels difembogues his waves. Addifon. 
To DISEMBO'GUE, v. n. To gain a vent; to flow.— 
By eminences placed up and down the globe, the rivers 
make innumerable turnings and windings, and at laft dif- 
cmbogue in feveral mouths into the fea. Cheync. 
To DISEMBOW'EL, v. a. To take out that which 
had been put into bowels. See To Disbowel. 
DISEMBOW'ELLED, part. adj. Taken out of the 
bowels : 
So her difembowell'd web 
Arachne in a hall or kitchen fpreads, 
Obvious to vagrant flies. Philips. 
To DISEMBRO'IL, v.a. [deboutlier, Yx .] To difen- 
tangle ; to free from perplexity; to reduce from confu- 
fion : 
Then earth from air, and feas from earth were driv’n, 
And groffer air funk from etherial heav’n ; 
Thus difembroil'd, they take their proper place. Dryden, 
To DTSENA'BLE, v. a. To deprive of power ; to dif¬ 
able ; to fink into weaknefs; to weaken.—Now age has 
overtaken me ; and want, a more infufferable evil, through, 
the change of the times, has wholly difenabled me. Dryden. 
To DISENCHA'NT, v. a. To free from the force of 
an enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms 
or fp ells : 
Hafte to thy work ; a noble ftroke or two 
Ends all the charms, and difenchants the grove. Dryden . 
To DISENCUM'BER, v. a. To difcharge from en¬ 
cumbrances ; to free from clogs and impediments; to dif- 
burthen; to exonerate.'—It will need the aftual inten¬ 
tion, the particular ftrefs and application of the whole 
foul, to difencumber and fet it free, to fcour off its ruft, 
and remove thole hindrances which would otherwife clog 
and check the freedom of its operations. Spratt. . 
The difencumber'd foul 
Flew off, and left behind the clouds and ftarry pole. 
Dryden „ 
To free from obftrudtion of any kind.—Dim night had 
difencumber'd heav’n. Milton. 
DISENCUM'BRANCE, f Freedom from encum¬ 
brance and obftrudtion.—There are many who make a 
figure below what their fortune or merit entitles them, 
to, out of mere choice, and an elegant defire of eafe and 
dijencumbrance. Speflator. 
DISENFRAN'CHISE, v.a. [fromrffsand enfranchife .] 
To disfranchife, to deprive of freedom. Scott. 
To DISENGA'GE, v. a. To feparate from any thing 
with which it is in union.—Some others, being very 
light, would float up and down a good while, before 
they could wholly difengage themfelves and defcend. 
Burnet. —To difentangle ; to clear from impediments or 
difficulties: 
From civil broils he did us difengage ; 
Found nobler objects for our martial rage. Waller. 
To withdraw, applied to the affeftion ; to wean ; to ab- 
ftradt the mind.—The confideration that fliould difengage 
our fondnefs from worldly things, is, that they are un¬ 
certain in their foundation; fading, tranfient, and cor¬ 
ruptible in their nature. Rogers .—To free from any pow¬ 
erful detention. To releafe from an obligation : 
When our mind’s eyes are difengag'd and free. 
They clearer, farther, and dirtinctly fee. Denham. 
To DISENGA'GE, v. n. To fet one’s felf free from ; 
to withdraw one’s affedtions from.—Providence gives us 
notice, by fenfible declenfions, that we may difengage from 
the world by degrees. Collier. 
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