Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-A-NOINT', v.t.

To render consecration invalid. – Milton.

DIS-AP-PAR'EL, v.t.

To disrobe; to strip of raiment. – Junius.

DIS-AP-PAR'EL-ED, pp.

Disrobed; stripped of garments.

DIS-AP-PAR'EL-ING, ppr.

Disrobing.

DIS-AP-PEAR', v.i. [dis and appear.]

1. To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to become invisible by vanishing or departing, or by being enveloped in any thing that conceals, or by the interposition of an object. Darkness disappears at the access of light, and light disappears at the approach of darkness. A ship disappears by departure to a distance; the sun disappears in a fog, or behind a cloud, or in setting.
2. To cease; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
3. To withdraw from observation. The debtor disappears when he absconds.

DIS-AP-PEAR'ANCE, n.

Cessation of appearance; a removal from sight.

DIS-AP-PEAR'ED, pp.

Removed from sight; vanished; become invisible.

DIS-AP-PEAR'ING, n.

A vanishing or removal from sight.

DIS-AP-PEAR'ING, ppr.

Vanishing; receding from the sight; becoming invisible.

DIS-AP-POINT', v.t. [dis and appoint; properly, to unfix or unsettle.]

1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped, or expected. We say, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions or expectations are disappointed. A bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil. The man promised me a visit, but he disappointed me. Without counsel purposes are disappointed. – Prov. xv.
2. To frustrate; to prevent an effect intended. The retiring foe / Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. – Addison.

DIS-AP-POINT'ED, pp.

Defeated of expectation, hope, desire or design; frustrated.

DIS-AP-POINT'ING, ppr.

Defeating of expectation, hope, desire or purpose; frustrating.

DIS-AP-POINT'MENT, n.

Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire or intention; miscarriage of design or plan. We are apt to complain of the disappointment of our hopes and schemes; but disappointments often prove blessings, and save us from calamity or ruin. – Anon.

DIS-AP-PRE'CI-ATE, v.t. [dis and appreciate.]

To undervalue; not to esteem.

DIS-AP-PRE'CI-A-TED, pp.

Undervalued.

DIS-AP-PRE'CIA-TING, ppr.

Undervaluing.

DIS-AP-PRO-BA'TION, n. [dis and approbation.]

A disapproving; dislike; the act of the mind which condemns what is supposed to be wrong, whether the act is expressed or not. We often disapprove when we do not express disapprobation.

DIS-AP'PRO-BA-TO-RY, a.

Containing disapprobation; tending to disapprove.

DIS-AP-PRO'PRI-ATE, a. [dis and appropriate.]

Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church property; a disappropriate church is one from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe and tithes are severed. The appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, two ways. – Blackstone.

DIS-AP-PRO'PRI-ATE, v.t.

1. To sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use. The appropriations of the several parsonages would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. – Blackstone.
2. To deprive of appropriated property, as a church.

DIS-AP-PROV'AL, n.

Disapprobation; dislike.

DIS-AP-PROVE', v.t. [Fr. desapprouver; dis and approve.]

1. To dislike; to condemn in opinion or judgment; to censure as wrong. We often disapprove the conduct of others, or public measures, whether we express an opinion or not. It is often followed by of; as, to disapprove of behavior. But modern usage inclines to omit of.
2. To manifest dislike or disapprobation; to reject, as disliked, what is proposed for sanction. The sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.

DIS-AP-PROV'ED, pp.

Disliked; condemned; rejected.

DIS-AP-PROV'ING, ppr.

Disliking; condemning; rejecting from dislike.

DIS-AP-PROV'ING-LY, adv.

By disapprobation.