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DISINGE'NUOUSNESS, f. Mean fubtilty ; unfair- 
nefs ; low craft.—1 might prefs them with the tinreal’on- 
ablenefs, the difingemwufnefs of embracing a profeffion to 
which'their own hearts have an inward reluctance. Go¬ 
vernment of the Tongue. 
DISINHE'RISON,y. The aft of cutting off from any 
hereditary fucceffion ; the aft of difmheriting.—If he 
flood upon his own title of the houfe of Lancafter, inhe¬ 
rent in his perfon, he knew it was a title condemned by 
parliament, and generally prejudged in the common opi¬ 
nion of the realm, that it tended directly to the djinherijon 
of the line of York. Bacon .—The date of being cut off 
from an hereditary right.—In refpe.ft of the effects and 
evil confcquence, the adultery of the woman is worfe, 
as bringing baftardy into a family, and difinhcrifons or great 
injuries to the lawful children. Taylor. 
To DJSINHE'RIT, v. a. To cut off from an heredi¬ 
tary right; to deprive of an inheritance_Of how fair a 
portion Adam difinherited his whole pofterity by one Angle 
prevarication! South. 
Unmuffle, ye faint flars; and thou, Tair moon. 
Stoop thy pale vifage through an amber cloud, 
And difinherit chaos that reigns here 
In double night of darknefs, and of flander. Milton. 
To DISINTER', v. a. To unbury; to take as out of 
the grave.—The philofopher, the faint, or the hero, the 
wife, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and 
concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might 
have difintcrrcd. Addifon. 
DISIN'TERESSKD, f. [dis and interejfe, Fr. It is 
written difmtercjled by thofe who derive it immediately 
from interejl, and more .properly.] Without regard to 
private advantage ; not biaffed by particular views; im¬ 
partial : 
Not that tradition’s parts are ufelefs here, 
When general, old, difinteref'd, and clear. D’ryden. 
DISIN'TERESSMENT, f. [dis and intereffement, Fr.] 
Difregard to private advantage ; difintereft ; difintereft- 
ednefs. This word, like charges in the fame fentence, is 
merely Gallic.—He has managed fome of the charges of 
the kingdom with known ability, and laid them down 
with entire difniterejfment. Prior. 
DISINTEREST, f. What is contrary to one’s with 
or pfofperity ; that which any one is concerned to pre¬ 
vent.—They judge it the great difinteref to Rome. Glan- 
ville .—Indifference to profit; fuperiority to regards of 
private advantage. 
DISINTERESTED, adj. Superior to regard of pri¬ 
vate advantage ; not influenced by private profit.—As 
difviterejlcd as you appear to the world, no man is more in 
tiie power of that prevailing favourite pafiion than your- 
felf. Swift. —'Without any concern in an affair ; without 
fear or hope. 
DISINTERESTEDLY, adv. In a difintereffed 
manner. 
DISINTERESTEDNESS, f. Contempt of private 
advantage ; negleft of perfonal profit.—Thefe expref- 
flons of felfifhnefs and difinterejlednefs , have been ufed in 
a very loofe and indeterminate manner. Brown. 
To DISINTHRO'NE, v. a. To unthrone: 
Either to dijinthrone the king of heaven 
We war, if war be bed, or to regain 
• Our own loll right. Milton. 
To DISIN'TRICATE, v. a. To difentangle. 
To DISINVI'TE, v. a. To retraft an invitation. 
To DISJOI'N, v. a. [dejoindre , Fr.] To leparate ; to 
part from each other; to difunite ; to funder.—Never 
let us lay down our arms againft France, till we have ut¬ 
terly disjoined her from the Spanifh monarchy. Addifon. 
Never fhall my harp thy praife 
Forget, nor from thy father’s praife disjoin. Milton. 
To DISJOI'NT, v.a. To put out of joint; 
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Yet what could fwords or poifon, racks or flame, 
But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame ? 
More fatal Henry’s words; they murder’d Emma’s fame. 
Prior. 
To break at junftures; to feparate at the part where 
there is a cement.— Mould’ring arches and disjointed co¬ 
lumns. Irene. —To break in pieces ; to dilaniate : 
Rotation muff; difperfe in air 
All things which on the rapid orb appear; 
And if no power that motion ffiould controul, 
It nmfl disjoint and diffipate the whole. Blackmon. 
To carve a fowl. To make incoherent; to break the re¬ 
lation between the parts.—The conftancy of your wit was 
not wont to bring forth fuch disjointed { Speeches. Sidney. 
But now her grief has wrought her into frenzy • 
The images her troubled fancy forms 
Are incoherent, wild; her words disjointed. Smith . 
7 b DISJOI'NT, v.n. To fall in pieces : 
Let both worlds disjoint , and all things fuffer, 
Ere we will eat our meal in fear. Shakcfpcarc. 
piSJO|pr, participle. Separated; divided. We now 
write disjointed: 
Young Fontinbras, 
Holding a weak fuppofal of our worth, 
Thinks by our late dear brother’s death 
Our ffate to be disjoint and out of frame. Shakfpcare, 
DISJUDICA'T[ON,y. [dijudicatio, Lat,] Judgment; 
determination : perhaps only miftaken for dijudication. —. 
The difpofition of the organ is of great importance in the 
disjudications we make of colours. Boyle. 
DiSJU'NCT, adj. [from disjiinCtus, Lat.] Disjoined; 
feparate. 
DlSJUNC'TION,y. [from disjunClio, Lat.] Difunion; 
feparation ; parting.—There is a great analogy between 
the body natural and politic, in which the ecclefiaftical 
or fpiritual part juffly fupplies the part of the foul; and 
the violent reparation of this from the other, does as cer¬ 
tainly infer death and diffolution, as the disjunction of the 
body and the foul in the natural. South. 
DISJUNC'TIVE, adj. [ disjundivus , Lat.] Incapable 
of union.—Such principles, whole atoms are of that 
disjunctive nature, as not to be united in a fufficient num¬ 
ber to make a vifible mafs. Grew. —That which marks 
feparation or oppofition : as, I love him , or fear him. —■ 
There are fuch words as disjunctive conjunclions. Watts. 
•—[In logic.] A disjunctive propofition is when the parts 
are oppofed to one another by disjunctive particles: as. 
It is either day or night ; The weather is either fiiny or rainy. 
Quantity is either length , breadth, or depth. The truth of 
disjunctives depends on the neceffary and immediate oppo- 
fition of the parts, therefore only the laft of thefe exam¬ 
ples is true: but the two firft are not ftriftly true; be- 
caufe twilight is a medium between day and night; and 
dry cloudy weather is a medium between Alining and 
raining. Watts .—A disjunctive fyllogifm is when the ma¬ 
jor propofition is disjunctive: as, the earth moves in a circle , 
or an ellipfis ; but it does not move in a circle, therefore 
it moves in an ellipfis. Watts. 
DISJUNC'TIVELY, adv. Difiinftly ; feparately.— 
What lie obferves of the numbers disjunctively and apart, 
reafon fuggefts to be applicable to the whole body uni¬ 
ted. Decay of Piety. 
DISK, f. \_difcus, Lat.J The face of the fun, or any 
planet, as it appears to the eye : 
The dijk of Phoebus, when he climbs on high, 
Appears at firft but as a bloodfhot eye. Dryden. 
Mercury’s dijk 
Can fcarce be caught by philofophic eye, 
Loft: in the near effulgence. Thomfon. 
A broad piece of iron thrown in the ancient fports ; a 
quoit.—The cryftal of the eye, which in a filh is a ball, 
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