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To DISTEM'PER, v. a. To difeafe : 
Young Ton, it argues a dfemper'd head, 
So foon to bid good-morrow to thy bed. Skakefpeare. 
To diforder.—He dijlemptred himfelf one night with long 
and hard dudy. Boyle. —To didurb 5 to till with per¬ 
turbation ; to ruffle : 
Thou fee’ll me much dfemper'd in my mind ; 
Pull’d back, and then pufli’d forward, to be kind. Dryd. 
To deprive of temper or moderation.—They will have 
admirers among poderity, and be equally celebrated by 
thole whole minds will not be difempered by intered, paf- 
fion, or partiality. Addifon. —To make difaff’edted or ma¬ 
lignant : 
Once more to-day well met, dfemper'd lords ; 
The king by me requeds your prefence llraight. Skakefp. 
DISTEM'PER ATE, adj. Immoderate.—Aquinasob- 
jedteth the difempered heat, which he fuppofeth to be in 
all places diredtly under the fun. Raleigh. —Vitiated.— 
Is it poflible there can be (even to the mod diftemperate 
palate) any fuch fvveetnefs in it. Whole Duty of Man. 
DISTEM'PERATURE,y. Intemperatenefs ; excefs 
of heat or cold, or other qualities.—They were confumed 
by the difcommodities of the country, and the difempcra- 
ture of the air. Abbot. 
Through this difemperature we fee 
The feafons alter ; hoary-headed frolts 
Fall in the frelh lap of the crimfon rofe. Skakefpeare. 
Violent tumultuoufnefs; outrageoufnefs. 
of the mind : 
Thy earlinefs doth me allure 
Thou art uprous’d by fome dijlemperature. Skakefpeare. 
Confufion; commixture of contrarieties; lofs of regu¬ 
larity : 
Tell how the world fell into this difeafe. 
And how fo great difemperature did grow-. Daniel. 
DISTEM'PERED, part. Difeafed, morbid ; didurb- 
ed, difaftedled. 
DISTEM'PEREDNESS, /. The date of being dif¬ 
eafed. Scott. 
DISTEM'PERING, adj. Didurbing, didradling. 
To DISTE'ND, v. a. [difendo , Lat.] To dretch out 
in breadth.—Avoid enormous heights of feven dories, 
as well as irregular forms; and the contrary fault, of 
low df ended fronts, is as unfeemly. Wotton. 
Thus all day long the full dif ended clouds 
Indulge their genial dores, Thomfon. 
DISTE'NT, part. paff. \diflentus , Lat.] Spread. Not 
fed: 
Some others were new driven and difent 
Into great ingots and to wedges fquare, 
Some in round plates withouten moniment. Spenfer. 
Svvoln: 
Th’ effufive fouth 
Warms the wide airland o’er the void of heaven 
Breathes the big clouds, with vernal diowers difent. 
Thomfon. 
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To DISTER'MINATE, v. a. \_diferminare, Lat.] To 
bound place from place, or to feparate one place from 
another. 
To DISTIIRO'NIZE, v. a. To dethrone; to depofe 
from fovereignty. Not ufed: 
By his death he it recovered ; 
But Peridure and Vigent him dfhronized. Spenfer. 
DIS'TICH, f. \_difichon, Lat.) A couplet; a couple 
of lines; an epigram confiding only of two verfes.—The 
French compare anagrams, by themfelves, to gems; but 
when they are cad into a difich , or epigram, to gems en- 
chafed in enamelled gold. Camden. 
'I'he bard, whofe difich all commend, 
In power, a fervant; out of power, a friend. Pope. 
DISTI'CHIA, or Distichiasis,/. [from double, 
and 5-1%°?, a row.) A difeafe of the eye-lids, which con-- 
fids in their having fupernumerary or a double row of 
hairs. 
DIS'TICFIUS, adj. [from <$ir, double, and a 
row.] In botany, it is applied to leaves which grow in 
two rows or two lines, as the fir, drervilla, &c. It is alfo 
applied to fpikes of flowers which point two ways. 
To DISTIL', v. n. \_difillo , Lat.) To drop ; to fall by 
drops: 
In vain kind feafons dwell’d the teeming grain; 
Soft fliow’rs difill'd, and funs grew w r arm, in vain. Pope. 
To flow gently and filently.—The Euphrates difilleth out 
Pwtilrhitmn of th e mountains of Armenia, and falleth into the gulf of 
Perfia. Raleigh .—To life a dill; to pradlife the adt of 
DISTE'NT,/] The fpace through which any thing 
is fpread ; breadth.—Thofe arches are the gracefulled, 
which, keeping prccifely the fame height, fliall yet be 
didended one-fourteenth part longer ; which addition of 
difent will confer much to their beauty, and detradl but 
little from their drength. Wotton. 
DISTEN'TION,/. Idifentio, Lat.] The aft of dretch¬ 
ing ; date of things dretched.—Wind and difention of the 
bowels are figns of a bad digedion in the intedines ; for 
in dead animals, when there is no digedion at all, the 
difention is in the greated extremity. Arbuthnot. —Breadth; 
fpace occupied by the thing didended. The adt of fepa- 
ratir.g one part from another ; divarication.—Our legs do 
labour more in elevation than in difention. Wotton. 
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didillation : 
Have I not been 
Thy pupil long ? Had thou not learn’d me how 
To make perfumes, difil, preferve ? Skakefpeare. 
To DISTIL', v. a. To let fall in drops ; to drop any 
thing down.—They pour down rain, according to the 
vapour thereof, which the clouds do drop and difil upon 
man abundantly, fob. 
The dew, which on the tender grafs 
The evening had difill'd, 
To pure rofe-water turned was, 
The dtades with fweets that fill’d. Drayton. 
To force by fire through the veflels of didillation; to 
exalt, feparate, or purify, by fire : as, dfilled fpirits : 
There hangs a vap’rous drop, profound; 
I’ll catch it ere it comes to ground ; 
And that, difill'd by magic flights, 
Shall raife up artificial fprights. Skakefpeare. 
To draw by didillation ; to extract by the force of fire.— 
The liquid dif Hied from benzoin is fubject to frequent 
vicillitudes of fluidity and firmnefs. Boyle. —To diflolve 
or melt: 
Swords by the lightning’s fubtle force difill'd , 
And the cold (heath with running metal fill’d. Addifon. 
DISTIL'LABLE, adj. That which may be di(Li 1 led. 
DISTILLA'TION, f. \_difillatio, Lat. from difillo, to 
drop by little and little.] The add of dropping, or fall¬ 
ing in drops. The act of pouring out in drops. That 
which falls in drops.—The adt of diddling by fire.—The 
ferum of the blood, by a drong dif illation, affords a fpi- 
rit, or volatile alkaline fait, and tw o kinds of oil, and an 
earth. Arbuthnot. —The fubdance drawn by the dill.—I 
fuffered the pangs of an egregious death, to be dopt in 
like a drong dif illation, with clothes. Skakefpeare. 
The principles of didillation, and redtification, with a 
figure of the common dill, have been already given un¬ 
der the article Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 190, 191. The 
objedt of this article is therefore to invedigate and ex¬ 
plain that department of didillation, which relates to the 
profeflion of a difliller and redlifier of ardent fpirit: a 
profeflion now become of confiderable importance in a 
commercial view, both in England and Scotland, and of 
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