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Place on their heads that crown difain'd with gore, 
Which thofe dire hands from my (lain father tore. Pope. 
To blot ; to fully with infamy.—Some theologicians de¬ 
file places erefted for religion, by defending oppreflions, 
difaining their profeffions by publifliing odious untruths 
upon report of others. Sir J. Hayward. 
The worthinefs of praife difiains his worth. 
If he that’s prais’d hrmfelf brings the praife forth. 
Shakefpeare. 
DIS'TANCE, f. [difiance, Fr. djlantia, Lat.] Difiance 
is fpace' confidered barely in length between any two 
beings, without confidering any thing elfe between them. 
Locke .—As he lived but a few miles difiance from her fa¬ 
ther’s houfe, he had frequent opportunities of feeing her. 
Addifon .—Remotenefs in place : 
Ctefar is (fill difpos’d to give us terms, 
And waits at difance till lie hears from Cato. Addifon. 
The fpace kept between two antagonifts in fencing.—• 
We come to fee fight ; to fee thy pafs, thy Hock, thy re- 
verfe, thy difance. Shakefpeare. —Contrariety; oppolition: 
Banquo was your enemy, 
So is he mine ; and in fuch bloody difance , 
That every minute of his being thrufts 
Againft my near’ft of life. Shakefpeare. 
A fpace marked on the courfe where horfes run.—This 
was the horfe that ran the whole field out of difance, 
and won the race. L'Ef range. —Space of time.—You 
mull do it by difance of time. 2 Efd. v.47.—Remote¬ 
nefs in time either paft or future—To judge right of 
bleffings prayed for, and yet at a difance, we mult be 
able to know things future. Smalridge. —Ideal disjunc¬ 
tion ; mental feparation.—The qualities that effeft our 
fenfes are, in the things themfelves, fo united and blend¬ 
ed, that there is no feparation, no difance between them. 
Locke. —Refpect, diflant behaviour.—’Tisby refpect and 
difance that authority is upheld. Atterbury. —If a man 
makes me keep my difance , the comfort is, he keeps his 
at the fame time. Swift. —Retraction of kindnefs; re- 
ferve ; alienation : 
On the part of heav’n, 
Now alienated, difayicc and diftalte. 
Anger, and juft rebuke, and judgment giv’n. Milton. 
To DIS'TANCE, zi. a. To place remotely; to throw 
off from the view.—That which gives a relievo to a bowl, 
is the quick light, or white, which appears to be on the 
fide neareft to us, and the black by confequence difances 
the objeCt. Dryden. —To leave behind at a race the length 
of a diltance; to conquer in a race with great fuperiority : 
Each daring lover, with advent’rous pace, 
Purfu’d his willies in the dang’rous race ; 
Like thefwift hind the bounding damfel flies, 
Strains to the goal; the difanc'd lover dies. Gay. 
DIS'TANT, adj. [di/lans, Lat.] Remote in place; not 
near.—Narrownefs of mind fliould be cured by reading 
hiltories of pall ages, and of nations and countries difant 
from our own. Watts. 
The wond’rous rock the Parian marble (hone, 
And feem’d to difant fight of folid (tone. Pope. 
Remote in time either paft or future. Remote to a cer¬ 
tain degree : as, ten years, ten miles, difant. Referved ; 
Ihy. Remote in nature; not allied.—What belides this 
unhappy fervility to cultom can reconcile men, that own 
Chriltianity, to a practice fo widely diftant from it ? Go - 
vemment of the Tongue. —Not obvious ; not plain.—It was 
one of the firft diftinCtions of a well-bred man to exprefs 
every thing obfeene in modeft terms and difant phrafes ; 
while the clown clothed thole ideas in plain homely terms 
that are the moft obvious and natural. Addifon. 
DISTA'STE,y. Averfion of the palate; difrelifli; dif- 
gu!t,--.He gives the reafon of the difafe of fatiety, and of 
thepleafure in novelty in meats and drinks. Bacon. —dif- 
like ; uneafinefs.—Profperity is not without many fears 
and difafes, and adverfity is not without comforts and 
hopes. Bacon. —Anger ; alienation of affeCtion.—Julius 
Caefar was by acclamation termed king, to try how the 
people would take it: the people (hewed great murmur 
and difafe at it : 
With ftern difafe avow’d, 
To their own diftriCts drive the fuitor crowd. Pope. 
To DISTA'STE, v. a. To fill the mouth with naufe=>- 
oufnefs, or difrelilh : 
Dang’rous conceits are in their nature poifons, 
Which at the firft are fcarce found to difafe. 
But, with a little aCt upon the blood, 
Burn like the mines of fulphur. Shakfpeare. 
To dillike ; to loath.—I am unwilling to believe that he 
doth it with a defign to play tricks, and fly-blow my words 
to make others difafe them. Stilling feet. —To offend ; to 
difguft.—He thought it no policy to difafe the Englilh or 
Irilh by a courfe of reformation, but fought to pleafe 
them. Davies. —.To vex; to exafperate ; to four.—The 
whittling of the winds is better mufic to contented minds, 
than the opera to the fpleenful, ambitious, dileafed, dif- 
tafed, and diftradted, fouls. Pope. 
DISTA'STEFUL, adj. Naufeous to the palate; dif- 
gufting..—What to one palate is fweet and delicious, to 
another is odious and dfafeful. Glanvife. —Offenfive ; 
uripleafing.—The vifitation, though fomewhat df afeful 
to the Irilh lords, was fweet and welcome to the common 
people. Davies. 
None but a fool dfafeful truth will tell ; 
So it be new and pleafe, ’tis full as well. Dryden. 
Malignant; malevolent.—The ground might be the dif. 
tafeful averfenefs of the Chriftian from the Jew. Brown. 
DISTEM'PER, f. A difproportionate mixture of 
parts ; want of a due temper of ingredients. A difeafe ; 
a malady; the peccant predominance of fome humour; 
properly a flight illnefs; indifpolition.—.They heighten 
dfempers to difeafes. Suckling. —It argues ficknels and 
difemper in the mind, as well as in the body, when a man is 
continually turning and tolling. South. —Want of due 
temperature.—It was a reafonable conjetfture, that thofe 
countries which were fituated diredtly under the tropic, 
were of a difemper uninhabitable. Raleigh. —Bad confti- 
tution of the mind; predominance of any paflion or ap¬ 
petite : 
If little faults, proceeding on difemper , 
Shall not be wink’d at, how fliall we ftretch our eye 
At capital crimes ? Shakefpeare. 
Want of due balance between contraries.—The true tem¬ 
per of empire is a thing rare, and hard to keep ; for both 
temper and difemper confift of contraries. Bacon. —Ill hu¬ 
mour of mind ; depravity of inclination.—I was not for¬ 
getful of thofe fparks, which fome men’s dfempers for¬ 
merly ftudied to kindle in parliament. King Charles.—* 
Tumultuous diforder: 
Still as you rife, the ftate exalted too, 
Finds no difemper while ’tis chang’d by you. Waller. 
Diforder; uneafinefs: 
There is a ficknefs, 
Which puts fome of us in difemper ; but 
I cannot name the difeafe, and it is caught 
Of you that yet are well. Shakefpeare. 
DISTEM'PER, f. in painting, a term ufed for the 
working up of colours with water and glue. If the co¬ 
lours are prepared with water only, that kind of paint¬ 
ing is called limning. If with oil, it is called painting in 
oil , or Amply painting. If the colours are mixed with 
fize, whites of eggs, or any glutinous matter, inftead of 
oil, then it called painting in difemper. 
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