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Durft entertain, when thus compell’d they preft 
The yielding marble of her fnovvy bread. Waller, 
Negleft of rule ; irregularity : 
From vulgar bounds with bra w diforder part, 
And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope. 
Breach of laws ; violation offtanding inftitutions.—There 
reigned in all men blood, manflaughter, difquieting of 
good men, forgetfulnefs of good turns, and diforder in 
marriages. Wifi. xiv. 26.—Breach of that regularity in 
the animal economy which caufes health ; ficknefs ; dif- 
temper. It is tifed commonly for a flight difeafe.—Plea- 
fure and pain are only different conftitutions of the mind, 
fometimes occafioned by diforder in the body, or fonre- 
times by thoughts in the mind. Locke. —Difcompofure of 
mind ; turbulence of pallions. 
To DISOR'DER, v. a. To throw into confufion ; to 
confound; to put out of method ; to difturb ; to ruffle; 
to confufe.—The incurfions of the Goths, and other bar- 
harous nations, difordered the affairs of the Roman em¬ 
pire. Arbuthnot. 
Eve, 
Not fo repuls’d, with tears that ceas’d not flowing. 
And trefles all diforder'd, at his feet 
Fell humble. Milton. 
To make fick ; to difturb the body: as, my di.nner difor. 
dersmt. To difcompofe ; to diffurb the mind. To turn 
out of holy orders ; to depofe ; to ftrip of ecclefiaftical 
veftments.—Let- him. be ftript, and difordered-, I would 
fain fee him walk in querpo, that the world may behold 
the infide of a friar. Drydcn. 
DISOR'DERED, adj. Diforderly; irregular; vitious; 
loofe ; • unreftrained in behaviour ; debauched : 
Here do you keep a hundred knights and fquires, 
Men fo diforder'd, fo debauch’d and bold, 
That this our court, infected with their manners, 
Shews like a riotous inn. Skakcfpeare. 
DISOR'DERED, part. Put out of order, thrown into 
confufion, ruffled, difturbed as to the health of the body, 
difcompofed as to the date of the mind. 
DISOR'DEREDNESS,/! Irregularity; want of or¬ 
der; confufion.—By that diforderednefs of the foldiers, a 
treat advantage was offered unto the enemy. Knolles. 
° DISOR'DERLY, adj. Confufed, unmethodical; with¬ 
out proper diftribution.—Thofe obfolete laws of Henry I. 
were but diforderly, confufed, and general things; rather 
cafes and (hells of adminilfration than inftitutions. Hale. 
, —Irregular; tumultuous.—A d/orderly multitude con¬ 
tending with the body of the legiilature, is like a man in 
a fit under the condutf of one in the fulnefs of his health 
and ftrength. Addfon. —Lawlefs; contrary to law ; inor¬ 
dinate ; contrary to the rules of life ; vitious.—He re¬ 
proved them for their diforderly aflemblies againft the 
peaceable people of the realms. Hayward. 
DISOR'DERLY, adv. Without rule; without me¬ 
thod ; irregularly ; confufedly.—Naked favages fighting 
diforderly with ftones, by appointment of their comman¬ 
ders, may truly and abfolutely be faid to war. Raleigh. 
—Without law' ; inordinately.—We behaved not our- 
felves diforderly among you. z Theff. 
DISOR'DIN ATE, adj. Not living by the rules of vir¬ 
tue ; inordinate : 
Thefe not di/ordinate, yet caufelefs fuffer 
The punifhment of dilfolute days. Milton. 
DISOR'DINATELY, adv. Inordinately; vitioufly; 
DISO'RIENTATED, adj. Turned from the eaft ; 
turned from the right direction ; thrown out of the px-o- 
per place. Harris. 
To DISO'WN, v. a. To deny ; not to allow : 
Then they, who brother’s better claim dijown, 
Expel their parents, and ufurp the throne. Drydcn. 
To abnegate ; to renounce.—.When an author has pub= 
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licly difowned a fpurious piece, they have difputed his 
name with him. Swift. 
To DISPA'CE, v. a. [from dis and fpatior, .Lat.] To 
beftirr 
Thus-wife long time he did himfelf difpace 
There round about. Spcn/cr, 
To DISPA'ND, v. a. [difpando, Lat.] To difplay ; to 
fpread abroad. 
DISPAN'SION, f. [from difpanfus, Lat.] The aCt of 
difplaying ; the a£t of fpreading ; diffufion ; dilatation. 
To DISPA'R AGE, v. a. [from difpar, Lat.] Tomarry 
any one to another of inferior condition. To match im» 
equally ; to injure by union with fomething inferior in 
excellence. To injure by a comparifon with fomething 
of lefs value. To treat with contempt; to ruock; ta 
flout; to reproach : 
Ahaz, his fottifli conqueror, he. drew 
God’s altar to difparage and difplace, 
For one of Syrian mode. Milton. 
To bring reproach upon ; to be the caufe of difgrace.— 
His religion fat eafily, naturally, and gracefully, upon, 
him, without any of thofe forbidding appearances which 
fometimes difparage the actions of men ftncerely pious. 
Atterbury. 
DISPA'RAGE,_/i Abbreviated for metre’s fake from 
difparagement: 
Her friends with counfel fage 
Difluaded her from fuch a difparage. Spenfer. 
DISPA'R AGEMENT,yi Injurious union or compa-i 
rifon with fomething of inferior excellence.—They take 
it for a difparagement to fort themfelves with any other 
than the enemies of the public peace. L’E/lrange .—[In 
law.] Matching an heir in marriage under his or her 
degree, or againft decency. Cowell .—You wrongfully do 
require Mopfa to fo great a difparagement, as to wed her 
father’s fervant. Sidney. —She was much affeftionate to 
her own kindred, which did ftir great envy in the lords 
of the king’s fide, who counted her blood a difparagement 
to be mingled with the king’s. Bacon. —Reproach ; dif¬ 
grace; indignity.—Reafon is a weak, diminutive light, 
compared to revelation; but it ought to be no difpa. 
ragemcnt to a ftar that it is not a fun. South. —It has to 
before the perfon or thing difparaged.—The play was 
never intended for the ftage ; nor, without difparagement, 
to the author, could have lucceeded. Dryden. 
Then to our age, when not to pleafure bent. 
This feem an honour, not difparagement. Denham. 
DISPA'R AGER,y. One that difgraces; one that treats 
with indignity; one that contrives an unequal match. 
DIS'PARATES,yi \_difparata, Lat.] Things fo un¬ 
like that they cannot be compared with each other. 
DISPA'RITY,yi [from difpar, Lat.] Inequality; dif¬ 
ference in degree either of rank or excellence.—Between 
Elihu and the reft of Job’s familiars, the greateft di/pa¬ 
rity was but in years. Hooker. —Men ought not to atfo- 
ciate and join themfelves together in the fame office, 
under a difparity of condition. Ayliffe. —-Some members 
mu ft prelide, and others obey ; and a difparitykn the out¬ 
ward condition is neceftary to keep feveral orders in mu¬ 
tual dependence on each other. Rogers. —Diflimilitude ; 
unlikenefs. 
To DISPA'RIC, v. a. To throw open a park ; to fet 
at large ; to releale from enclofure : 
You have fed upon my figniories, 
Dfpark’d my parks, and fell’d my foreft woods. Slakefp. 
To DISPA'RT, v. a. [departir, Fr. difpertior, Lat.] To 
divide in two; to feparate; to break ; to burl!; to rive : 
The pilgrim oft 
At dead of night, ’mid his orifon, hears, 
Aghaft, the voice of tint c=difparting tow’rs. Dier. 
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