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DISQIJAMA'TION,/. Not much ufed. The aft of 
taking off the fcales of fifties. Scott. 
To DISQTJA'NTITY, v.a. Toleflen; to diminifh. 
Not ufed. 
Be entreated 
Of fifty to difquantity your train ; 
And the remainders, that fliall (fill depend, 
To be fuch men as may befort your age. Shahefpeare. 
DISQJJI'ET, f. Uneafinefs; reftleflfhefs; want of 
tranquillity; vexation; difturbanee; anxiety.—He that, 
upon a true principle, lives without any difquitt of thought, 
may be faid to be happy. VEf range. 
DISQUl'ET, adj. Unquiet; uneafy ; reftlefs: 
I pray you, hufband, be not difquiet ; 
The meat was well if you were fo content. Shahefpeare. 
To DISQUI'ET, v. a. To difturb ; to make uneafy ; 
to harafs ; to vex ; to fret; to deprive of tranquillity.— 
Why art thou fo vexed, O my foul ? arid why art thou 
fo difquieled within me r Pfalm. —By anger and impatience 
the mind is difquieted, and is not able eafily to compofe it- 
leIf to prayer'. Duppa. 
DISQUI'ETER, f. A difturber; a harafler. 
DISQUI'ETLY, adv. Without reft; anxioufly ; un- 
eafily ; without calmnefs.—Treachery, and all ruinous 
diforders, follow us difquietly to our graves. Shahefpeare. 
DISQUI'ETNESS, f Uneafinefs; reffleffnefs; anxie¬ 
ty; difturbanee: 
All otherwife, faid he, I riches rede, 
And deem them root of all difquictnefs. Spcnfer. 
DISQUI'ETUDE, f. Uneafinefs; anxiety ; difturb- 
ance; want of tranquillity.—Little happinefs attends a 
great character, and to a multitude of difquietudes the de¬ 
lire of it fubjefts an ambitious mind. Addifon .—It is the 
belt prefervative from all thofe temporal fears and difqui- 
ctudes, which corrupt the enjoyment, and embitter the 
lives of men. Rogers. 
DISQyiSl'TION, f. [difquiftio, Lat.] Examination; 
difputative enquiry.—The royal fociety had a good effeft, 
as it turned many of the greateft geniufes to the difquifi- 
tions of natural knowledge. Addifon. 
To DISRA'NK, v. a. To degrade from hjs rank. To 
put out of order.—And not difrank one hair of your phy- 
fiognomy. Green. 
DIS'RATIONA'RE, v. a. [alawterm.] Tojuftify; 
to clear one's felf of a fault; to traverfe an indiftment. 
DISREGA'RD, f. Slight notice ; negleft; contempt. 
To DISREGA'RD, v.a. To flight; to negleft; to 
contemn.—Since we are to do good to the poor, to ftran- 
gers, to enemies, thofe whom nature is too apt to make us 
defpife, difregard , or hate, then undoubtedly we are apt 
to do good to all. Spratt. 
Studious of good, man difregarded fame, 
And ufeful knowledge was his eldeft aim. Blachnore. 
DISREGARD'FUL, adj. Negligent; contemptuous. 
DISREGARD'FULLY, adv. Negligently; contemp- 
tuoufly. 
DISRE'LISH, f. Bad tafte; naufeoufnefs. Diflike 
of the palate ; fqueamiftinefs.—'Bread or tobacco may be 
neglefted, where they are (hewn not to be ufeful to health, 
becaufe of an indifferency or difrelijh to them. Locke. 
To DISRE'LISH, v. a. To make naufeous ; to infeft 
with an unpleafant tafte.—The fame anxiety and folici- 
tude that embittered the purfuit, difrclijhes the fruition it- 
felf. Rogers .—To want a tafte of; to diflike.—The world 
is become too bufy for me : every body is fo concerned 
for the public, that all private enjoyments are loft, or 
difrelijhed. Pope. 
DISREPUTA'TION,/. Difgrace; dilhonour.—-I will 
tell you what was the courfe in the happy days of queen 
Elizabeth, whom it is no difreputation to follow. Bacon. — 
Lofs of reputation ; ignominy.—Gluttony is not of fo 
great difreputation amongft men as drunkennefs. Taylor , 
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DISREPU'TE,/. Ill charadter ; dilhonour; want of 
reputation,—How ftudioufly did they cafta fiurupon the 
king s perfon, and bring his governing principles under a 
dfrepute. South. 
DISRESPE'CT, f Incivility; want of reverence; 
irreverence ; an aft approaching to rudenefs._What is 
more ufual to warriors than impatience of bearing the 
leaft affront or difrefpeEl? Pope. 
DISRESPECT'FUL, adj. Irreverent; uncivil. 
DISRESPECT'FULLY, adv. Irreverently; uncivilly. 
■—We cannot believe our pofterity will think fo difrefpek- 
fully of their great grandmothers, as that they made them, 
felves monftrous to appear amiable. Addifon. 
To DISRO'BE, v.a. To undrefs; fo uncover; to 
ftrip.—Who will be prevailed with to difrobe himfelf at 
once of all his old opinions, and pretences to knowledge 
and learning, and turn himfelf out (lark naked in queft 
afrefli of new notions? Locke. 
DISRU'PT, adj. \_de, Lat. from, and rumpo, to break.] 
Broken, rent, dilacerated. 
DISRU'PTION,/. [ difruptio , Lat.] The aft of break¬ 
ing afunder.—This fecures them from difruption , which 
they would be in danger of, upon a hidden ftretch or con¬ 
tortion. Ray. —Breach; rent; dilaceration.—The agent 
which effefted this difruption, and diflocation of the ftrata> 
was feated within the qarth. Woodward. 
If raging winds invade the atmofphere. 
Their force its curious texture cannot tear, 
Nor make difruption in the threads of air. Blachnore , 
DISS, a town in the county of Norfolk, thirteen miles 
from Norwich, and ninety-two from London, fituated oa 
the mod fouthern confines of the county. The market, 
which is well ftored with yarn and linen cloth, belides 
other goods, is on Fridays ; and a fair on November 9. 
It is a neat flourifhing town ; the ftreets well paved, wide, 
and always clean. Itcarries on conliderable manufactories 
of hempen-cloth, hofe, and (lays. Here is alfo a free, 
grammar fchool, well endowed. 
DISS ATISFAC'TION, f. The date of being diflatis- 
fied; dilcontent; want of fomething to complete the 
wifts.—He that changes his condition, out of impatience 
and diffatisfaElion , when he has tried a new one, willies for 
his old again. L’Ef range. —In vain we try to remedy the 
defefts of our acquifition, by varying the objeft : the 
fame diffatisfaElion purfues us through the circle of created 
goods. Rogers. 
DISSATISFAC'TORINESS,/. Inability to give con¬ 
tent. 
DISSATISFAC'TORY, adj. That which is unable to 
give content. 
To DISSA'TISFY, v.a. To difeontent; to difpleafe. 
—The advantages of life will not hold out to the length 
of defire ; and, fince they are not big enough to fatisfy, 
they ftiould not be big enough to diffatisfy. Collier. —To 
fail to pleafe ; to offend by the want of (omething requi- 
fite.—I dill retain fome of my notions, after your lord- 
lhip’s having appeared diffatisfied with them. Locke. 
DISSA'Y, a town-of .France, in the department of the 
Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Poitiers: two leagues and a half north-north-eaft of Poi¬ 
tiers. 
DISS'DORF, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and Old Mark of Brandenburg: fixteen 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Salzwedel. 
To DISSE'AT, v.a. To diflodge from a feat of any 
kind: 
This pu(h 
Will cheer me ever, or diffeat me now. Shakefpeare. 
To DISSECT, v. a. \_diffeco, Lat. ] To cut in pieces. It 
is ufed chiefly of anatomical enquiries, made by feparation 
of the parts of animal bodies: 
No ma(k, no trick, no favour, no referve; 
DffeEl your mind, examine every nerve. Rofcommo'n. 
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