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DISENGA'GED, participial adj. Disjoined; difentan- 
gled. Vacant; at leifure ; not fixed down to any parti¬ 
cular objeft of attention. Releafed from obligation. 
DISENGA'GEDNESS, f. The quality of being dif- 
engaged ; vacuity of attention; freedom from any pref- 
fing bufinefs; disjunction. 
DISENGA'GEMENT, f. Releafe from any engage¬ 
ment, or obligation.—Freedom of attention ; vacancy. 
DfSEN'TIS, one of the eight jurifdiftions in the fu- 
perior part of the Grifon league: fituated about the 
fources of the Rhine; mountainous and fertile. The 
inhabitants are Roman catholics, and their language the 
Romanifh, i. e. a rpixture of Latin, German, and ancient 
Celtic. In this country, about fixteen leagues long, are 
mines of copper and filver. 
DISEN'TIS, a town of Swifferland, and capital of the 
above-mentioned jurifdiction in the country of the Gri- 
fons, fituated near the fources of the Rhine, with an 
abbey, founded in the feventh century: ten miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Ilantz. 
To DISENTAN'GLE, v. a. To unfold or loofe the 
parts of any thing interwoven with one another.—Though 
in concretions particles fo entangle one another, that they 
cannot in a fiiort time clear themfelves, yet they do inceR 
fantly drive to difentangle themfelves, and get away. Boyle. 
—To fet free from impediments ; to difembroil ; to clear 
from perplexity or difficulty.—The welfare of their fouls 
requires a better judgment than their own, either to guide 
them in their duty, or to difentangle them from a tempta¬ 
tion. South. —To difengage ; to feparate.—Neither can 
God himfelf be otherwile underftood by us than as a 
mind free and difcntangled from all corporeal mixtures. 
Stillingfleet. 
To DISENTER'RE, v.a. \_dis, and enterrer, Fr.] To 
unbury ; to take out of the grave.—Though the blind- 
nefs of fome fanatics have favaged on the bodies of the 
dead, and have been fo injurious unto worms as to difen - 
terre the bodies of the deceafed, yet had they therein no 
defign upon the foul. Brown. 
To DISENTHRA'L, v. a. To fet free ; to reftore to 
liberty ; to refcue from flavery.—If religion were falfe, 
bad men would fet the utmoft force of their reafon on 
work to difcover thatfalfity, and thereby dfenthral them¬ 
felves. South. 
To DISENTHRO'NE, v. a. To depofe from fove- 
reignty ; to dethrone : 
Either to difenthrone the king of heav’n 
We war, if war be bell; or to regain 
Our own right loft. Milton. 
To DISENTRA'IL, v. a. \_dis and entrail. ] Toextradt 
from the vitals: 
And all the while the difntrayled blood 
Adown their fides like little rivers ftream’d. Spenfer. 
To DISENTRAN'CE, v.a. To awaken from a trance, 
or deep deep : 
Ralplio, by this time dfentranc’d. 
Upon his bum himfelf advanc’d. Hudilras. 
7 bDISESPOU'SE, f .a. To feparate after faith plighted: 
Such was the rage 
Of Turntis, for Lavinia difefpous'd. Milton. 
DISESTE'EM, f. Slight regard; a difregard more 
moderate than contempt.—When any one, by mifcarriage, 
falls into difejleem, he will fall under negleft and con¬ 
tempt. Locke. 
To DISESTE'EM, v. a. To regard (lightly ; to confi- 
der with a flight degree of contempt.—I would not be 
thought to difejleem or diffuade the ftudy of nature. Locke. 
But if this facred gift you difejleem. 
Then cruel plagues (hall fall on Priam’s date. Denham. 
DISESTIMA'TION, f. \_dis } and aJTmatio ) Lat.] Dif- 
refpeft ; difefteem. 
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DISFA'VOUR, f Difcountenance ; tmpropitious re¬ 
gard ; unfavourable afpeft; unfavourable circumftance. 
A date of ungracioufnefs or unacceptablenefs ; a date in 
which one is not favoured.—'While free from facrilege, 
lie was at peace, as it were, with God and man ; but af¬ 
ter his facrilege, he was in disfavour with both. Spelman. 
—Want of beauty. 
To DISFA'VOUR, v. a. To difcountenance ; to with¬ 
hold or withdraw kindnefs.—Might not thofe of higher 
rank, and nearer accefs to her majefty, receive her own 
commands, and be countenanced or disfavoured according 
as they obey. Swift. 
DISFA'VOURER, f. Difcountenancer; not a fa¬ 
vourer.—It was verily thought, that had it not been for 
four great disfavourers of that voyage, the enterprize had 
fucceeded. Bacon. 
DISFIGUR A'TION, f. The aft of disfiguring. The 
date of being disfigured. Deformity. 
To DISFI'GURE, v.a. To change any thing to a 
worfe form ; to deform ; to mangle.—His long abfence, 
and travels which had disfigured him, made him altoge¬ 
ther unknown. Broome. 
Nor would his flaughter’d army now have lain 
On Afric’s fands, disfigur'd with their wounds, 
To gorge the w'olves and vultures of Numidia. Addif 
DISFI'GUREMENT, f Defacement of beauty; 
change of a better form to a worfe : 
And they, fo perfect is their mifery, 
Not once perceive their foul disfigurement. Milton. 
To DISFO'REST, v. a. To reduce land from the pri¬ 
vileges of a foreft to the date-of common land. 
To DISFR AN'CIIISE, v. a. To deprive of privileges 
or immunities. It is contrary to enfranchife. Corpora¬ 
tions have power to disfranchife members in certain cafes. 
See the article Corporation, p. 222, of this volume. 
DISFR AN'CHISEMENT, J\ The aft of depriving- 
of privileges. 
To DISFUR'NISII, v.a. To deprive ; to unfurnifii j 
to drip : 
My riches are thefe poor habiliments, 
Ot which if you fhould here disfurnijh me, 
You take the fum and fubftance that I have. Shakefp. 
To DISGAR'NISFI, v.a. To drip of ornaments. To 
take guns from a fortrefs. 
To DISGA'VEL, v. a. In law, to exempt from the te¬ 
nure of gavelkind.—By 31 Hen.VIII. c. 3. for difgavelling 
the lands of divers lords and gentlemen in the county of 
Kent, they are direfted to be defcendible for the future 
like other lands. Blackfione. 
To DISGLO'RIFY, v.a. To deprive of glory; to 
treat with indignity : 
So Dagon (hall be magnified, and God, 
Befides whom is no god, compar’d with idols, 
Difglorified, blafphem’d, and had in fcorn. Milton. 
To DISGOR'GE, v.a.. \_degorger, Fr. from gorge, the 
throat.] To difeharge by the mouth; to fpew out; to 
vomit : 
From the diftant fliore they loudly laught, 
To fee his heaving bread difgorge the briny draught. 
Dry den. 
To pour out with violence.—Countries much annoyed 
with earthquakes, have volcanoes; and thefe are con- 
ftantly all in flames, whenever any earthquake happens ; 
they difgorging that fire which was the caule of the dif- 
after. Derham. 
DISGRA'CE, f. [Fr.] State of being out of favour. 
State of ignominy ; difhonour; date of diame.—Poetry, 
howfoever cenfured, is not'fallen from the higheft ftage 
of honour to the lowed ftair of difgrace. Peackam. 
Like a dull adtor, now 
I have forgot my part, and I am ouL 
Even to a full difgrace. 
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