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If our young lulus be no more, 
Difmifs our navy from your friendly (bore. Dryden. 
To difcard ; to diveft of an office. 
DISMIS'SION,y. [from dimiJfiOy Lat.] Difpatch ; a£t 
of fending away : 
So pois’d, fo gently ffie defcends from high, 
It feems a foft difmijjion from the Iky. Dryden . 
An honourable difcharge from any office or place : 
Not only thou degrad’d them, or remit’ft 
To life obfcure, which were a fair dijmijjlon ; 
But throw’ll them lower than thou did’ft exalt them high. 
Milton. 
Deprivation ; obligation to leave any pod or place : 
You mud not day here longer; your difmijjion 
Is come from Caefar. Shakefpeare. 
To DISMO'RTGAGE, <v. a. To redeem front mort¬ 
gage.—He difmortgaged the crown demefnes, and left be¬ 
hind a mafs of gold. Howel. 
To DISMOU'NT, <v. a. \_demonter , Fr.] To throw off 
an horfe : 
From this flying deed unrein’d, as once 
Bellerophon, though from a lower clime. 
Demounted, on th’ Aleian field I fall. Milton. 
To throw from any elevation or place of honour. To 
throw a cannon front its carriage.—The Turks artillery, 
planted againd that tower, was by the Chridian canno¬ 
neers difnwunted with fliot from the tower, and many of 
the gunners (lain. Knolles. 
To DISMOU'NT, <v. n. To alight from an horfe.— 
When he came within fight of that prodigious army at 
Agincourt, he ordered all his cavalry to difmount , and 
implore upon their knees a bleffing. Addifon. —To de- 
fcend from any elevation. 
To DISNA'TURALIZE, v. a. To alienate ; to make 
alien ; to deprive of the privileges of birth. 
DISNA'TURED, adj. Unnatural ; wanting natural 
tendernefs; devoid of natural affedtion. Unufual: 
If ffie mud teem, 
Create her child of fpleen, that it may live, 
And be a thwart difnatur'd torment to her. Shakefpeare. 
DIS'NEY (John), a learned and pious Englifli divine, 
born at Lincoln, in 1677. He received his education 
among the proteftant-diffenters, to which clafs of men 
his father belonged. Being defigned for the dudy of the 
law, he was for fome time a member of the Middle 
Temple. He did not profecute that dudy, however, as a 
lucrative profeffion ; but, fatisfied with an eafy paternal 
inheritance, availed himfelf of the progrefs which he 
made in legal knowledge, to render himfelf ufeful and 
inftrudtive in the characters of a judice of the peace, 
and of an author. After he had been an adtive magif- 
trate for above twenty years, he conceived the delign of 
becoming a minider in the church of England. His de- 
iign was applauded by Dr. Wake, archbiffiop of Can¬ 
terbury, whofe correfpondence with him upon the fub- 
jedt ffiews in what edimation his character was held ; 
and he was accordingly ordained deacon, and afterwards 
pried, by Dr. Gibfon, bifliop of Lincoln, in 1719. In 
the fame year, he was prefented to the vicarage ot Croft, 
and to the reCtofy of Kirkby-fuper-baine, both in Lin- 
colnffiire. In 1722, he was indituted to the vicarage of 
St. Mary, in Nottingham, and lived there until his death, 
in 1729-30. During this period he was indefatigable in 
his literary application, as appears from the works which 
he fent to the prefs, and more particularly from the great 
collection of manufcripts which he left behind him, the 
principal of which were drawn up as materials for an 
intended extenfive work, under the title of Corpus Legum 
de Moribus Reformandis. The pieces which he publiffied, 
and which refleCt credit on his abilities, learning, and 
piety, befides feveral fermons preached on public occa- 
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fions, were the following: 1. Primitive Sacra, the Reflec¬ 
tions of a devout Solitude, confiding of Meditations and 
Poems on divine Subjects, 8vo. 1701. 2. Flora, prefixed to 
fubdean Gardiner’s tranflation of Rapinof Gardens, 8vo. 
1705. 3- An Effiay upon the Execution of the Laws 
againd Immorality and Profanenefs, 8vo. 1708. 4. A 
fecond Effay upon the Execution of the Laws againd 
Immorality and Profanenefs, See. 8vo. 1710. 5. Re¬ 
marks upon a Sermon preached by Dr. Henry Sacheve- 
rell, at the Affizes held at Derby, Augud 15, 1709, 8vo. 
1711. 6 . The Genealogy of the mod illudrious Houfe 
of Brunfwick Lunenburg, the prefent Royal Family of 
Great Britain. And 7. A View of ancient Laws againd 
Immorality and Profanenefs, &c. collected from the 
Engliffi, Roman, Greek, Gothic, Lombard, and other 
Laws, down to the Middle of the eleventh Century, See. 
folio, 1729. 
DISOBE'DIENCE, f. Violation of lawful command 
or prohibition ; breach of duty due to fuperiors.—Mur¬ 
der, adultery, or difobedience to parents, have a general 
notion antecedently to law's. Stillingfleet. 
Of man’s fird difobedience , and the fruit 
Of that forbidden tree, ling heav’nly mufe. Milton. 
Incompliance : 
If planetary orbs the fun obey, 
Wliy ffiould the moon difown his fovereign fvvay ; 
Why, in a whirling eddy of her own, 
Around the globe terreftrial ffiduld ffie run ? 
This difobedience of the moon will prove 
The fun’s bright orb does not the planets move. Blackm. 
DISOBF/DIENT, adj. Not obfervant of law’ful au- 
•thority ; guilty of the breach of lawful commands, or 
prohibition.—The man of God was difobedient unto the 
word of the Lord, r Kings , xiii. 26. 
To DISOBEY', v. a. To break commands, or tranf- 
grefs prohibitions : 
He’s loth to difobey the god’s command, 
Nor willing to forfake this pleafant land. Denham. 
DISOBLIG A'TION,/. Offence; canfe of difgud.— 
If he receded from what he had promifed, it would be 
fuch a difobligation to the prince, that he would neverTar¬ 
get it. Clarendon. 
To DISOBLI'GE, v. a. To offend ; to difgud ; to 
give offence to. A term by which offence is tenderly 
exprefled.—Thofe, though in higheft place, w ho (light 
and difoblige their friends, (hall infallibly come to know 
the value of them, by having none when they lhall mod 
need them. South. —If a woman (offers her lover to fee 
(lie is loth to difoblige him, let her beware of an en- 
croacher. Clarijfa. 
DISOBLI GING, participial adj. Difgufiing; unplea- 
fing ; offenfive,—Peremptorinefs can befit no form of 
underdanding : it renders wife men difoblifng and trou- 
blefome, and fools ridiculous and contemptible. Govern¬ 
ment of the Tongue. 
DISOBLl'GINGLY, adv. In a difguflingor offenfive 
manner ; without attention to pleafe. 
DISOBLI'GINGNESS,/. Offenfivenefs; readinefs to 
difgud. 
DISOR'BED, adj. Thrown out of the proper orbit : 
Fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, 
Or like a ftar diforb'd. Shakefpeare. 
DISOR'DER,/. [ defordre , Fr.] Want of regular d,if- 
pofition ; irregularity; confufion ; unmethodical difiri-' 
bution.—When I read an author of genius without me¬ 
thod, I fancy myfelf in a wood that abounds with many 
noble objedts, rifing among one another in the greateft 
confufion and diforder. Spectator. —Tumult; didurbance; 
buflle: 
A greater favour this diforder brought 
Unto her fervants, than their awful thought 
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