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ceflTon; to debar from an inheritance.—He tries to re- 
ftore to their rightful heritage fitch good old Englifh 
words as h.ave been long time out of ufe, almolt difkerited. 
Spenfer. 
Nor how the Dryads and the woodland train, 
Difheritcd, ran howling o’er the plain. Dryden, 
DISHER'ITOR, f One that puts another out of his 
inheritance. 
To DISHE'VEL, v.a. [ dechcveler , Fr.] To fpread the 
hair diforderly ; to throw the hair of a woman negligently 
about her head. It is not often ufed but in the pallive 
participle.—After followed great numbers of women 
weeping, with djhevdlcd hair, fcratching their faces, and 
tearing themfelves, after the manner of the country. 
Knolles. 
A troop of Trojans mix’d with thefe appear, 
And mourning matrons with dificvelVd hair. Dryden. 
You this morn beheld his ardent eyes, 
Saw his arm lock’d in her dijkevell’d hair. Smith. 
DISHING, ad). Concave: a cant term among artifi¬ 
cers'.—For the form of the wheels, fome make them 
more djhing, as they call it, than others ; that is, more 
concave, by fetting otf the fpokes and fellies more out¬ 
wards. Mortimer. 
DISH'NE, a town of Egypt: fixteen miles north-eaft 
of Menuf. 
DISHG'NEST, adj. Void of probity; void of faith ; 
faithlefs; wicked ; fraudulent.—Jultice then was neither 
blind to difeern, nor lame to execute- It was not fub- 
jett to be impofed upon by a deluded fancy, nor yet to 
be bribed by a glozing appetite, for an utile or jucundum 
to turn the balance to a falfe or dijhonejl fentence. South. 
— Unchafte; lewd.—To-morrow will we be married. I 
do defire it with all my heart ; and I hope it is no dijko- 
■nefi defire, to defire to be a woman of the world. Shake- 
Jpeare. —Difgraced; dilhonoured: 
Dijhonejl with lopp’d arms the youth appears, 
Spoil’d of his note, and Ihorten’d of his ears. Dryden. 
Disgraceful; ignominious. Thefe two fenfesare fcarcely 
Englifh, being borrowed from the Latin idiom.- 
She faw her fons with purple death expire. 
Her facred domes involv’d in rolling fire; 
A dreadful feries of inteftine wars, 
Inglorious triumphs, and dijhonejl fears. Pope. 
DISHO'NESTLY, adv. Without faith; without pro¬ 
bity ; fnithlefsly; wickedly: 
I protefi: he had the chain of me, 
Though molt dijhonejlly he doth deny it. Shakefpeare. 
Lewdly; wantonly; unchafiely —A wife daughter fiiall 
bring an inheritance to her hulband ; but Ihe that liveth 
dijhonejlly is her father’s heavinefs. Ecd. xxii. 4. 
DISHO'NESTY, f. Want of probity; faithleffnefs ; 
violation of truft.—Their fortune depends upon their 
credit, and a ftain of open public dijkoncjly mud be to 
their difadvantage. Swift. —Unchaffity ; incontinence ; 
lewdnefs.—Mrs. Ford, the honed woman, the moded 
wife, the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to 
her hulband ! I fufpedt without caufe, midrefs, do I ?— 
Heaven be my witnefs you do, if you fufpeiSt me. in any 
dijhonejly. Shakcjpeare. 
DISHO'NOUR, J'. Reproach ; difgrace ; ignominy.— 
He was pleafed to own Lazarus even in the dijhonours of 
the grave, and vouchfafed him, in that defpicable con¬ 
dition, the glorious title of his friend. Boyle. —Reproach 
uttered ; cenfure ; report of infamy : 
So good, that no tongue could ever 
Pronounce djhonour of her ; by my life 
She never knew harm doing. Shakefpeare. 
To DISHO'NOUR, v. a. To difgrace ; to bring lhame 
upon ; to blad with infamy.—A woman that honoureth 
her hulband, fhall be judged wife of all: but the that 
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difhonoureth him in her pride, fhall be counted ungodly of 
all. Ecd. xxvi. 26.—To violate chadity. To treat with 
indignity : 
One glimpfe of glory to my iffne give, 
Grac’d for the little time he has to live : 
DJhonour’d by the king of men he frauds ; 
His rightful prize is ravifil’d from his hands. Dryden. 
DISHO'NOURABLE, adj. Shameful; reproachful; 
ignominious : 
He did dijhonourable find 
Thofe articles which did our date decreafe. Dan. 
Being in a date of negle£t or difedeem.—He that is ho¬ 
noured in poverty, how much more in riches? and he 
that is dijhonourable in riches, how much more in po¬ 
verty ? Ecd. x.31. 
DISHO'NOUR ABLY, adv. Shamefully.—Ten times 
more djhononrably ragged than an old faced ancient. 
Shakefpeare. 
DISHO'NOURER, f. One that treats another with 
indignity. A violator of chadity : 
Preaching how meritorious with the gods 
It would be, to enfnare an irreligious 
DJhonourer of Dagon. Milton „ 
To DISHO'RN, v.a. To drip of horns: 
We’ll dijhorn the fpirit. 
And mock hrm home to Windfor. Shakefpeare. 
DISHU'MOUR, f. Peevidinefs; ill humour; uneafy 
date of mind.—Speaking impatiently to fervants, or any 
thing that betrays inattention or dijhumour , are alfo cri¬ 
minal. Spedator. 
DISIDHi'MONY, or Disidemony, f. [from StiSb, 
to fear, and a demon, Gr.] Superdition ; fuper- 
ditious worfhip; the date of thole that worlhip out of 
fear. 
DISIMIEU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Ifere : one league fouth-ead of Cremieu. 
DISIMPRO'VEMENT, f. Reduction from a better 
to a worfe date ; the contrary to melioration ; the con¬ 
trary to improvement.—I cannot fee how this kingdom 
is at any height of improvement, while four parts in five 
of the plantations, for thirty years pad, have been real 
difmprovements. Swift. 
To DISINCAR'CERATE, v. a. To fet at liberty; 
to free from prifon.—The arfenical bodies being now 
coagulated, and kindled into flaming atoms, require dry 
and warm air, to open the earth for to di/incarcerate the 
fame venene bodies. Harvey. 
DISINCLINATION, /. Want of affection ; flight; 
diflike ; ill-will not heightened toaverfion.—Difappoint- 
ment gave him a dfinchnation to the fair fex, for whom 
he does not exprefs all the refpect poflible. Arluthnot. 
To DISINCLI'NF., v.a. To produce diflike to; to 
make diffaffefled ; to alienate affection from.—They were 
careful to keep up the fears and apprehenfions in the 
people of dangers and defigns, and to difincline them from 
any reverence or affection to the queen. Clarendon. 
DISINGENU'ITY, f. Meannefs of artifice; unfair- 
nels.—They contract a habit of ill-nature and di/ingenuity 
necelfary to their affairs, and the temper of thofe upon 
whom they are to work. Clarendon. 
DISINGE'NUOUS, adj. Unfair; meanly artful; vici- 
oufly fubtle ; fly ; cunning ; illiberal; unbecoming a gen¬ 
tleman ; crafty.—There cannot be any thing fo dijinge- 
nuous and milbecoming any rational creature, as not to 
yield to plain reafon, and the conviction of clear argu- 
ments. Locke. 
’Tis difngenuous to accufe our age 
Of idlenefs, who all our pow’rs engage 
In the fame ftudies, the fame courle to hold, 
Nor think our reafon for new arts too old. Denham. 
DISINGE'NUOUSLY, adv. In a difingenuotis manner, 
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