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And bitter penance with an iron whip 
Was wont him once to difple ev’ry day. Spcnfer. 
DISPLEA'S ANCE, f. Anger; difeontent. Obfolcte: 
Cordell faid, (lie lov’d him as behov’d ; 
Whofe timple anfwer, wanting colours fair 
To paint it forth, him to dijplcafancc mov’d. Spcnfcr. 
DISPLEA'S ANT, adj. Unpleafing; effenfive ; un- 
pleafant.—What to one is a molt grateful odour, to an¬ 
other is noxious and difpleafant ; and it were a mifery to 
fome to lie dretched on a bed of rofes. Glanville. 
To DISPLEA'SE, v. a. To offend ; to make angry.— 
God was difpleafed with this thing, i C/iron. xxi. 7. 
To DISPLEA'SE, v. n. To difguft ; to raife averfion. 
•—Sweet and dinking commonly ferve our turn for thefe 
ideas, which, in effect, is little more than to call them 
pleafing or difpleafing ; though the fmell of a rofe and vio¬ 
let, both fweet, are certainly very didinft ideas. Locke. 
DISPLEA'SINGNESS, f. Offenfivenefs ; quality of 
offending.—It is a midake to think that men cannot 
change the difpleafngnefs or indifferency that is in ac¬ 
tions, into pleafure and defire, if they will do but what 
is in their power. I.ocke. 
DISPLEA'SURE, f. Uneafinefs ; pain received.—■ 
When good is propofed, its abfence carries difplcajure. or 
pain with it. Locks. —Offence ; pain given.—Now fhall I 
be more blamelefs than .the Philidine-s, though Ido them 
a difplcajure. Judges. —Anger; indignation.—Though the 
reciprocalnefs of the injury ought to allav the difpleajure 
at it, yet men fo much more confider what they futfer 
than what they do. Decay of Piety. 
You’ve flievvn how much you my content defign ; 
Yet ah ! would heav’n’s dfpleafurc pafs like mine ! Dryd. 
State of difgrace ; date of being difcountenanced ; dif- 
favour.—He went into Poland, being in dfpleafurc with 
the pope for overmuch familiarity, peacham. 
To DISPLE A'SURE, v. a. To difpleafe ; not to gain 
favour; not to win affection. A word not now in ufe .— 
When the way of plea faring or difpleafuring lieth by the 
favourite, it is impotlible any other fhould be over great. 
Bacon. 
To DISPLO'DE, v. a. [ dfplodo , I.at.] To difperfe with 
a loud noife ; to vent with violence : 
Stood rank’d of feraphim another row. 
In pofture to difplodc their fecond tire 
Of thunder. Milton. 
DISPLO'SION, f. [from fdifplofus, Lat. ] The aft of 
difploding; a fudden burft or difperfion with noife and 
violence. 
DISPLU'MED, adj. Stript of plumes.—You have 
fent them to us with their arms reverfed, their fiiields 
broken, their imprefles defaced : and fo difplumed, de¬ 
graded, and metamorphofed, fuch unfeathered two-leg¬ 
ged things, that we no longer know them. Burke. 
DISPONDHi'US, or Dispondee,/, in the Greek and 
Latin poetry, a double fpondee or foot, confiding of four 
longfyllables; as-jiiramentum, concludentes, Savfxcc'^cvToiv. 
DISPO'RT, J\ Play; fport; padime ; diverfipn ; a- 
mufement; merriment.—His dfports were ingenious and 
manlike, whereby he always learned fomewluit. Hayzu. 
She lid not hear, but her dfports purfu’d ; 
And ever bade him day, till time the tide renew’d. Spenf. 
To DISPO'RT, v. a. To divert: 
He often, but attended with weak guard, 
Comes hunting this way to difport himfelf. Shakcfpcare. 
To DISPO'RT, v. n. To play; to toy; to wanton : 
Loofe to the winds their airy garments dew ; 
The glitt’ring textures of the filmy dew 
Dipt in the riched tinfture of the (kies, 
Where light difports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. 
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DISPO'SAL, f. The aft of difrofing or regulating 
any tiling; regulation; difpenfation; didribution: 
Tax not divine difpofal; wifed men 
Have err’d, and by bad women been deluded. Milton. 
The power of didribution ; the right of be do wing.— 
Are not the bledings both of this world and the next in 
his difpofal? Atterbury. —Government; management; con- 
duft.—We diall get more true and clear knowledge by 
one rule, than by taking up principles, and thereby put¬ 
ting our minds into the dfpofals of others. Locke .—Eda- 
blilhment in a new date; difmifiion into new hands.—I 
am called off from public didertations by a domedic af¬ 
fair of great importance, which is no lefs than the difpo¬ 
fal of my fider for life. Tatler. 
To DISPO'SE, v. a. [ difpofer , Fr. difpono , Lat.] To 
employ,to various purpofes ; to diffufe : 
Thus, whilft die did her various pow’r difpofe, 
The world was free from tyrants, wars, and woes. Prior. 
To give; to place; to bedow.—Of what you gathered, 
as mod your own, you have difpofed much in works of 
public piety. Spratt. —To turn to any particular end or 
confequence : 
Endure, and conquer: Jove will foon difpofe 
To future good our pad and p re fent woes. Drydcn. 
To adapt; to form for any purpofe : 
But if thee lid unto the court to throng, 
And there to haunt after the hoped prey, 
Then mud thou thee difpofe another way. Ilubberd. 
To frame the mind; to give a propenfion ; to incline: 
with to. —Sufpicions difpofe kings to tyranny, hufbands to 
jealoufy, and wife-men to irrefolution and melancholy. 
Bacon. —To make fit: with for. —This may difpofe me, 
perhaps, for the reception of truth ; but helps me not to 
it. Locks. —To regulate; toadjud: 
Wak’d by the cries, th’ Athenian chief arofe 
The knightly forms of combat to difpofe. Drydcn , 
To Dispose of. To apply to any purpofe; to transfer 
to any other perfon or ufe.—All men are naturally in a 
date of perfeft freedom to order their aftions, and difpofe 
of their podedions and perfons, as they think fit, within 
the bounds of the law of nature. Locke. —To put into the 
hands of another.—I have difpofed of her to a man of 
bufinefs, who will let her fee, that to be well drelfed, in 
good humour, and cheerful in her family, are the arts 
and fciences of female life. Tatler. —To give away by au¬ 
thority.—A rural judge dijpos’d of beauty’s prize. Wal¬ 
ler. —To direft.—The lot is cad into the lap; but the 
whole difpofng thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs. —To con- 
duft; to behave.—They mud receive indruftions how to 
difpofe of themfelves when they come, which mud be in 
the nature of laws unto them. Bacon. —To place in any 
condition 
For the remaining doubt, 
What to refolve, and how difpofe of me, , 
Be warn’d to cad that ufelefs care afide. Drydcn. 
To put away by any means.—They require more water 
than can be found, and more than can be difpofed of if it 
was found. Burnett. 
To DISPO'SE, v. n. To bargain ; to make terms. Ob- 
folete 
When die faw you did fufpeft 
She had dijpos’d with Ccefar, and that your rage 
Would not be purg’d, die fent word die was dead. Shakef 
DISPO'SE, f. Power; management; difpofal: with 
at or to : 
All that is mine I leave at thy difpofe ; 
My goods, my lands, my reputation. Shakefpeare. 
Of all your goodnefs leaves to our difpofe , 
Our liberty’s the only gift we clioofe. Drydcn. 
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