Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-PRO-FESS', v.i.

To renounce the profession of. – Spenser.

DIS-PROF'IT, n. [dis and profit.]

Loss; detriment; damage. [Little used.]

DIS-PROOF', n. [dis and proof.]

Confutation; refutation; a proving to be false or erroneous; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a fact, argument, principle or allegation.

DIS-PROP'ER-TY, v.t.

To deprive of property; to dispossess. [Not used.] – Shak.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION, n. [dis and proportion.]

1. Want of proportion of one thing to another, or between the parts of a thing; want of symmetry. We speak of the disproportion of a man's arms to his body; of the disproportion of the length of an edifice to its highth.
2. Want of proper quantity, according to rules prescribed; as, the disproportion of the ingredients in a compound.
3. Want of suitableness or adequacy; disparity; inequality; unsuitableness; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION, v.t.

To make unsuitable in form, size, length or quantity; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly. To shape my legs of an unequal size / To disproportion me in every part. – Shak.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-A-BLE, a.

Disproportional; not in proportion; unsuitable in form, size or quantity to something else; inadequate. Note. The sense in which this word is used is generally anomalous. In its true sense, that may be made disproportional, it is rarely or never used. The regular word which ought to be used is disproportional, as used by Locke.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitableness to something else.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-A-BLY, adv.

With want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitably to something else. – Tillotson.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-AL, a.

Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form or quantity; unequal; inadequate. A disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body. The studies of youth should not be disproportional to their capacities. [This is the word which ought to be used for disproportionable.]

DIS-PRO-POR-TION-AL'I-TY, n.

The state of being disproportional.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-AL-LY, adv.

Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity or value; inadequately; unequally.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-ATE, a.

Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else, in bulk, form or value; inadequate. In a perfect form of the body, none of the limbs are disproportionate. It is wisdom not to undertake a work with disproportionate means.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-ATE-LY, adv.

In a disproportionate degree; unsuitably; inadequately.

DIS-PRO-POR'TION-ATE-NESS, n.

Unsuitableness in form, bulk or value; inadequacy.

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

To destroy appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use. – Anderson. [See Disappropriate, which is more regularly formed, and more generally used.]

DIS-PROV'A-BLE, a.

Capable of being disproved or refuted. – Boyle.

DIS-PROVE', v.t. [dis and prove.]

1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to disprove an assertion, a statement, an argument, a proposition.
2. To convict of the practice of error. [Not in use.] – Hooker.
3. To disallow or disapprove. [Not in use.] – Hooker.

DIS-PROV'ED, pp.

Proved to be false or erroneous; refuted.

DIS-PROV'ER, n.

One that disproves or confutes.

DIS-PROV'ING, ppr.

Proving to be false or erroneous; confuting; refuting.

DIS-PUNGE', v.t. [dis and spunge.]

To expunge; to erase: also, to discharge as from a sponge. [Ill formed and little used.] – Wotton. Shak.

DIS-PUN'ISH-A-BLE, a. [dis and punishable.]

Without penal restraint; not punishable. – Swift.

DIS-PURSE', v.

For Disburse. [Not in use.] – Shak.

DIS-PUR-VEY', v.t.

To unprovide. [Not in use.]