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Mullc craveth your acquaintance : many are of fuch dif- 
proportioned fpirits, that they avoid her company. Peacham. 
There fits deformity to mock my body, 
To fliape my legs of an unequal fize, 
To difproportion me in every part. Shakefpeare. 
DISPROPOR'TIONABLE, ad). Unfuitable in form 
or quantity ; not duly regulated in regard to fomething 
elfe.—Doubts and fears are the (harped paffions : through 
thefe falfe optics all that you fee is like the evening flia- 
dows, difproportionable to the truth, and firangely longer 
than the true fubdance. Suckling. 
DISPROPORTION ABLENESS, f. Unfuitablenefs 
to fomething elfe. 
DISPROPOR'TIONABLY, adv. Unfuitably; not 
fymmetrically.—We have no reafon to think much to fa- 
crifice to God our deared intereds in this world, if we 
confider how difproportionably great the reward of ourfuf- 
ferings (hall be in another. Tillotfpn. 
DISPROPOR'TIONAL, adj. Difproportionable ; un- 
fymmetrica! ; unfuitable in quantity or form to fomething 
elfe. 
DISPROPORTIONALLY, adv. Unfuitably with re- 
fpeCt to quantity or value. 
DISPROPORTIONATE, adj. Unfymmetrical ; un¬ 
fuitable to fomething elfe either in bulk, form, or value. 
—None of our members are crooked or didorted, or dif. 
proportionate to the red, either in excefs or defeCt. Ray. 
DISPROPORTIONATELY, adv. Unfuitably; un- 
fymmetrically. 
DISPROPORTIONATENESS, f. Unfuitablenefs in 
bulk, form, or value. 
To DISPRO'VE, v. a. To confute an affertion; to con¬ 
vict of error or falfehood.—It is eafier to affirm, than to 
difprove. Holder. 
The traitor’s odious name 
I fird return, and then difprove thy claim. Dryden. 
To conviCt a practice of error.—They behold thofe things 
difproved, difannulled, and rejected, which ufe had made 
in a manner natural. Hooker. —To difapprove ; to difal¬ 
low.—Some things are good, yet in fo mean a degree of 
goodnefs, that men are only not difproved , nor difidlowed 
of God for them. Hooker. 
DISPRO'VER, f. One that difproves or confutes. 
One that blames; a cenfurer: if the following palfage 
be not ill printed for difapprover. —The (ingle example 
that our annals have yielded of two extremes, within fo 
fliort time, by mod of the fame commenders and dfprovers, 
would require no dight memorial. Wotton. 
To DISPUN'GE, v. a. To died, as from a full fpunge 
fqueezed: 
O fov’reign miffrefsof true melancholy, 
The pois’nous damp of night difpunge upon me. Shake/. 
DISPU'NISHABLE, adj. Without penal redraint.— 
No leafes of any part of the faid lands diall ever be made, 
other than leafes for years not exceeding thirty-one, in 
pofleffion, and not in reverfion or remainder, and not dif- 
punifiable of wade. Swift. 
To DISPU'RSE, v. a. To pay; to difburfe. It is not 
certain that the following paffage fiiould not be written 
dijburfe: 
Many a pound of my own proper dore, 
Becaufe I would not tax the needy commons, 
Have I difpurfcd to the garrifons, 
And never aik’d for reditution. Shakefpeare . 
DISPURVEY'ANCE, f Want ofprovifion: 
No fort fo fencible, no walls fo drdng, 
But that continual battery will rive, 
Or daily fiege through dijpurveyance long. 
And lack ol re(kewes, will to parley drive. Spenfer. 
DISPUTABLE, adj. Liable to coated ; controvert- 
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ble ; that for which fomething may be alleged on oppo- 
fite (ides.—It they are not in themfelves difputable, why 
are they fo much difputed ? South. —Lawful to be con- 
teded.—Until any point is determined to be a law, it re¬ 
mains dfputable by every fubjeCt. Swift. [Of perfons.] 
Improperly ufed for, fond of deputation.'—He is too dj~ 
putable for me. Shakefpeare. 
DIS'PUTANT, f. \_difputans, Lat.] A controvertid ; 
an arguer; a reafoner.—Our difputants put me in mind 
of the (kuttle-fiffi, that, when lie is unable to extricate 
himfelf, blackens all the water about him till he becomes 
invifible. SpeElator. 
DIS'PUTANT, adj. Difputing; engaged in contro- 
verfy. Not in ufe. 
Thou there wad found 
Among the graved rabbies, difputant 
On points and queftions fitting Mofes’ chair. Milton. 
DISPUTATION, f. [from difputatio, Lat.] The (kill 
ofcontroverfy ; argumentation.—Confider what the learn¬ 
ing of difputation is, and how they are employed for the 
advantage of themfelves or others, whofe bufinefs is only 
the vain odentation of founds. Locke. —Controverfy ; ar- 
gumental conted.—Well do I find, by the wife knitting 
together of your anfwer, that any difputation I can ufe is 
as much too weak as I unworthy. Sidney. 
DISPUTATIOUS, adj. Inclined to difpute; cavil¬ 
ling.—A man mud be of a very dijputatious temper, that 
ehters into date controverfies with any of the fair fex. 
Addifon. 
DISPU'TATIVE, adj. Difpofed to debate ; argumen¬ 
tative.—Perhaps this practice might not fo ealily be per¬ 
verted, as to raife a cavilling, difputative, and fceptical 
temper in the minds of youth. Hiatts. 
To DISPUTE, v. n. [difputo, Lat.] To contend by ar¬ 
gument ; to altercate; to debate ; to argue; to contro¬ 
vert.—If attempts of the pen have often proved unfit, 
thofe of the fvvord are more fo, and fighting is a vvorfe 
expedient than difputing. Decay of Piety. 
To DISPUTE, v. a. To contend for, whetherby words 
or action.—Things were difputed before they came to be 
determined : men afterwards were not to difpute any 
longer, but to obey. Hooker. 
So difpute the prize, 
As if you fought before Cydaria’s eyes. Dryden. 
To quedion ; to reafon about. To difeufs; to think on: 
Difpute it like a man. 
-1 diall do fo ; 
But I mud alfo feel it as a man. Shakefpeare. 
DISPUTE, f. Conted; controverfy; argumental con¬ 
tention.—The quedion being about a faCt, it is begging 
it, to bring as a proof an hypothefis which is the very 
thing in difpute. Locke. 
DISPU'TELESS, adj. Undifputed; uncontrovertible. 
DISPU'TER, f. A controvertid; one given to argu¬ 
ment and oppolition.—Both were vehement difpuiers 
againd the heathen idolatry. Stillingfleet. 
DISQUALIFICATION,/". That which difqualifies] 
that which makes unfit.—It is recorded as a fufficient dif. 
qualification of a wife, that, fpeaking of her hulband, (he 
laid, God forgive him. SpeElator. 
To DfSQUA'LIFY, v. a. To make unfit; to difable 
by fome natural or legal impediment.—Such perfons as 
(hall confer benefices on unworthy and difqualified perfons, 
after a notice or correction given, (hall for that turn be 
deprived of the power of prefenting unto fuch benefices. 
Aylijfe. —It has commonly for before the objective noun. 
—I know no employment for which piety d/qualifies. 
Swift. —To deprive of a right of claim by fome pofitive 
redriCtion ; to difable ; to except from any grant. Swift 
has from. —The church of England is the only body of 
Chridians which difqualifies thofe, who are employed to 
preach its doCtrine, from, (haring in the civil power, far¬ 
ther than as fenators. Swift. 
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