Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-SEM'IN-A-TING, ppr.

Scattering and propagating; spreading.

DIS-SEM'IN-A-TION, n.

The act of scattering and propagating, like seed; the act of spreading for growth and permanence. We trust the world is to be reformed by the dissemination of evangelical doctrines.

DIS-SEM'IN-A-TOR, n.

One who disseminates; one who spreads and propagates.

DIS-SEN'SION, n. [L. dissensio; dis and sentio, to think; Fr. dissension.]

Disagreement in opinion, usually a disagreement which is violent, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; strife; discord; quarrel; breach of friendship and union. Debates, dissensions, uproars are thy joy. – Dryden. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension with them. – Acts xv. We see dissensions in church and state, in towns, parishes, and families, and the word is sometimes applied to differences which produce war; as, the dissensions between the houses of York and Lancaster in England.

DIS-SEN'SIOUS, a.

Disposed to discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. [Little used.] – Shak. Ascham.

DIS-SENT', n.

1. Difference of opinion; disagreement.
2. Declaration of disagreement in opinion; as, they entered their dissent on the journals of the house.
3. Contrariety of nature; opposite quality. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

DIS-SENT', v.i. [L. dissensio; dis and sentio, to think.]

1. To disagree in opinion; to differ; to think in a different or contrary manner; with from. There are many opinions in which men dissent from us, as they dissent from each other.
2. To differ from an established church, in regard to doctrines, rites or government.
3. To differ; to be of a contrary nature. [Less proper.] – Hooker.

DIS-SENT-A'NE-OUS, a.

Disagreeable; contrary.

DIS'SENT-A-NY, a.

Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Not used.] – Milton.

DIS-SENT-A'TION, n.

Act of dissenting.

DIS-SENT'ER, n.

1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or one who declares his disagreement.
2. One who separates from the service and worship of any established church. The word is in England particularly applied to those who separate from, or who do not unite with, the church of England.

DIS-SEN'TIENT, a.

Disagreeing; declaring dissent.

DIS-SEN'TIENT, n.

One who disagrees and declares his dissent.

DIS-SENT'ING, ppr.

Disagreeing in opinion; separating from the communion of an established church. It is used as an adjective; as, a dissenting minister or congregation.

DIS-SEN'TIOUS, a.

Disposed to disagreement or discord.

DIS-SEP'I-MENT, n. [L. dissepimentum; dissepio, to separate; dis and sepio, to inclose or guard.]

In botany, the partitions that are formed in ovaries, by the united sides of cohering carpels, and which separate the inside into cells. – Lindley.

DIS-SERT', v.i. [L. dissero, diserto.]

To discourse or dispute. [Little in use.]

DIS-SERT-A'TION, n. [L. dissertatio, from disserto, to discourse, from dissero, id.; dis and sero, to sow, that is, to throw. Dissero is, to throw out, to cast abroad.]

1. A discourse, or rather a formal discourse, intended to illustrate a subject.
2. A written essay, treatise or disquisition; as, Plutarch's dissertation on the poets; Newton's dissertations on the prophecies.

DIS-SERT-A'TOR, n.

One who writes a dissertation; one who debates. – Boyle.

DIS-SERVE', v.t. [disserv'. dis and serve.]

To injure; to hurt; to harm; to do injury or mischief to. He took the first opportunity to disserve him. – Clarendon. Too much zeal often disserves a good cause. – Anon.

DIS-SERV'ED, pp.

Injured.

DIS-SERV'ICE, n.

Injury; harm; mischief; as, violent remedies often do a disservice.

DIS-SERV'ICE-A-BLE, a.

Injurious; hurtful.

DIS-SERV'ICE-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being injurious; tendency to harm. – Norris.

DIS-SERV'ING, ppr.

Injuring.