Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TE-LY – DIS-CURS'IVE-LY
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DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TE-LY, adv.
Distinctly; with minute distinction; particularly. – Johnson.
Distinctness; marked difference. – Dict.
DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TING, ppr.
- Separating; distinguishing; marking with notes of difference.
- adj. Distinguishing; peculiar; characterized by peculiar differences; as, the discriminating doctrines of the gospel.
- adj. That discriminates; able to make nice distinctions; as, a discriminating mind. – Journ. of Science.
- The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as, the discrimination between right and wrong.
- The state of being distinguished. – Stillingfleet.
- Mark of distinction. – K. Charles.
- That makes the mark of distinction; that constitutes the mark of difference; characteristic; as, the discriminative features of men.
- That observes distinction; as, discriminative providence. – More.
DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TIVE-LY, adv.
With discrimination or distinction. – Foster.
One who discriminates.
DIS-CRIM'IN-OUS, a.
Hazardous. [Not used.] – Harvey.
DIS-CROWN', v.t.
To deprive of a crown.
DIS-CROWN'ED, pp.
Deprived of a crown.
DIS-CROWN'ING, ppr.
Depriving of a crown. – Campbell.
DIS-CU'BI-TO-RY, a. [L. discubitorius; discumbo; dis and cubo, to lie down or lean.]
Leaning; inclining; or fitted to a leaning posture. – Brown.
DIS-CULP'ATE, v.t. [Fr. disculper; Sp. disculpar; dis and L. culpa, a fault.]
To free from blame or fault; to exculpate; to excuse. Neither does this effect of the independence of nations disculpate the author of an unjust war. – Trans. of Vattel. Hist. of California.
DIS-CUL'PA-TED, pp.
Cleared from blame; exculpated.
DIS-CUL'PA-TING, ppr.
Freeing from blame; excusing,
DIS-CUL-PA'TION, n.
Exculpation.
DIS-CULP'A-TO-RY, a.
Tending to exculpate.
DIS-CUM'BEN-CY, n. [L. discumbens. See Discubitory.]
The act of leaning at meat, according to the manner of the ancients. – Brown.
DIS-CUM'BER, v.t. [dis and cumber.]
To unburden; to throw off anything cumbersome; to disengage from any troublesome weight, or impediment; to disencumber. [The latter is generally used.] – Pope.
DIS-CURE', v.t.
To discover; to reveal. [Not used.] – Spenser.
DIS-CUR'RENT, a.
Not current. [Not used.] Sandys.
DIS-CUR'SION, n. [L. discurro; dis and curro, to run.]
A running or rambling about. – Bailey.
DIS-CURS'IST, n. [See Discourse.]
A disputer. [Not in use.] – L. Addison.
DIS-CURS'IVE, a. [Sp. discursivo, from L. discurro, supra.]
- Moving or roving about; desultory. – Bacon.
- Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discoursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty. – Hale.
DIS-CURS'IVE-LY, adv.
Argumentatively; in the form of reasoning or argument. – Hale.