Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-A-GREE'A-BLE-NESS – DIS-AN-NUL'
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- Unsuitableness; contrariety.
- Unpleasantness; offensiveness to the mind, or to the senses; as, the disagreeableness of another's manners; the disagreeableness of a taste, sound, or smell.
DIS-A-GREE'A-BLY, adv.
Unsuitably; unpleasantly; offensively.
DIS-A-GREED', pp.
of Disagree.
DIS-A-GREE'ING, ppr.
Differing; not according or coinciding.
DIS-A-GREE'MENT, a.
- Difference, either in form or essence; dissimilitude; diversity; as, the disagreement of two ideas, of two pictures, of two stories or narrations.
- Difference of opinion or sentiments. – Hooker.
- Unsuitableness.
DIS-AL-LI'ED, a.
Separated from alliance.
DIS-AL-LI'ED, pp.
Improperly allied.
DIS-AL-LIEGE', v.t.
To alienate from allegiance. [Not in use.] – Milton.
DIS-AL-LOW', v.t. [dis and allow.]
- To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; not to make or suppose lawful; not to authorize; to disprove. God disallows that Christians should conform to the immoral practices of the world. A good man disallows every kind of profaneness.
- To testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent. But if her father shall disallow her in the day that he heareth, not any of her vows or her bonds … shall stand. – Num. xxx.
- Not to approve; not to receive; to reject. To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious. – 1 Pet. ii.
- Not to allow or admit as just; to reject; as, to disallow an account or charge.
DIS-AL-LOW'A-BLE, a.
Not allowable; not to be suffered.
DIS-AL-LOW'ANCE, n.
Disapprobation; refusal to admit of permit; prohibition; rejection.
DIS-AL-LOW'ED, pp.
Not granted, permitted, or admitted; disapproved; rejected.
DIS-AL-LOW'ING, ppr.
Not permitting; not admitting; disapproving; rejecting.
DIS-AL-LY', v.t. [dis and ally.]
To form an improper alliance. – Milton.
DIS-AL-LY'ING, ppr.
Forming a disadvantageous alliance.
DIS-AN'CHOR, v.t. [dis and anchor.]
To force from its anchors, as a ship.
DIS-AN'CHOR-ED, pp.
Forced from its anchors.
DIS-AN'CHOR-ING, ppr.
Forcing a ship from its anchors.
DIS-AN-GEL'IC-AL, a.
Not angelical. [Not used.] – Coventry.
DIS-AN'I-MATE, v.t. [dis and animate.]
- To deprive of life. [Not used.]
- To deprive of spirit or courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject. – Boyle.
DIS-AN'I-MA-TED, pp.
Discouraged; dispirited.
DIS-AN'I-MAT-ING, ppr.
Discouraging; disheartening.
DIS-AN-I-MA'TION, n.
- The act of discouraging; depression of spirits.
- Privation of life. [Not used.] – Brown.
DIS-AN-NEX', v.t.
To separate; to disunite.
DIS-AN-NUL', v.
An improper word. [See Annul.]