Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-PENS'ED, pp.

Distributed; administered.

DIS-PENS'ER, n.

One who dispenses; one who distributes; one who administers; as, a dispenser of favors or of the laws.

DIS-PENS'ING, ppr.

1. Distributing; administering.
2. adj. That may dispense with; granting dispensation; that may grant license to omit what is required by law, or to do what the law forbids; as, a dispensing power.

DIS-PEO'PLE, v.t. [dis and people.]

To depopulate; to empty of inhabitants, as by destruction, expulsion, or other means. – Milton. Pope.

DIS-PEO'PLED, pp.

Depopulated; deprived of inhabitants.

DIS-PEO'PLER, n.

One who depopulates; a depopulator; that which deprives of inhabitants.

DIS-PEO'PLING, ppr.

Depopulating.

DIS-PERGE', v.t. [disperj'; L. dispergo.]

To sprinkle. [Not in use.]

DIS-PERM'OUS, a. [Gr. δι, δις, and σπερμα, seed.]

In botany, two-seeded; containing two seeds only; as, umbellate and stellate plants are dispermous.

DIS-PERSE', v.i. [dispers'.]

1. To be scattered; to separate; to go or move into different parts; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock.
2. To be scattered; to vanish; as fog or vapors.

DIS-PERSE', v.t. [dispers'; L. dispersus, from dispergo; di, dis, and spargo, to scatter; Fr. disperser.]

1. To scatter; to drive asunder; to cause to separate into different parts; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
2. To diffuse; to spread. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. – Prov. xv. [It should be diffuse.]
3. To dissipate; as, the fog or the cloud is dispersed.
4. To distribute. – Bacon.

DIS-PERS'ED, pp.

Scattered; driven apart; diffused; dissipated.

DIS-PERS'ED-LY, adv.

In a dispersed manner; separately. – Hooker.

DIS-PERS'ED-NESS, n.

The state of being dispersed or scattered.

DIS-PERSE'NESS, n. [dispers'ness.]

Thinness; a scattered state. [Little used.] – Brerewood.

DIS-PERS'ER, n.

One who disperses; as, the disperser of libels. – Spectator.

DIS-PERS'ING, ppr.

Scattering; dissipating.

DIS-PER'SION, n.

1. The act of scattering.
2. The state of being scattered, or separated into remote parts; as, the Jews, in their dispersion, retain their rites and ceremonies.
3. By way of eminence, the scattering or separation of the human family, at the building of Babel.
4. In optics, the divergency of the rays of light, or rather the separation of the different colored rays, in refraction, arising from their different refrangibilities. The point of dispersion, is the point where refracted rays begin to diverge.
5. In medicine and surgery, the removing of inflammation from a part, and restoring it to its natural state.

DIS-PERS'IVE, a.

Tending to scatter or dissipate. – Green.

DIS-PIR'IT, v.t. [dis and spirit.]

1. To depress the spirits; to deprive of courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject; to cast down. We may be dispirited by afflictions, by obstacles to success, by poverty, and by fear. When fear is the cause, dispirit is nearly equivalent to intimidate or terrify.
2. To exhaust the spirits or vigor of the body. [Not usual.] – Collier.

DIS-PIR'IT-ED, pp.

Discouraged; depressed in spirits; dejected; intimidated.

DIS-PIR'IT-ED-LY, adv.

Dejectedly.

DIS-PIR'IT-ED-NESS, n.

Want of courage; depression of spirits.

DIS-PIR'IT-ING, ppr.

Discouraging; disheartening; dejecting; intimidating.

DIS-PIT'E-OUS, a.

Having no pity; cruel; furious. [Not used.] – Spenser.