Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-COM-MEND'ING – DIS-CON-NECT'ED
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DIS-COM-MEND'ING, ppr.
Blaming; censuring.
DIS-COM'MO-DATE, v.t.
To incommode. [Not used.]
DIS-COM-MODE', v.t. [dis and commode, Fr.]
To put to inconvenience; to incommode; to molest; to trouble.
DIS-COM-MOD'ED, pp.
Put to inconvenience; molested; incommoded.
DIS-COM-MOD'ING, ppr.
Putting to inconvenience; giving trouble to.
Inconvenient; troublesome. – Spenser.
DIS-COM-MO'DI-OUS-LY, adv.
In a discommodious manner.
DIS-COM-MOD'I-TY, n.
Inconvenience; trouble; hurt; disadvantage. – Bacon.
DIS-COM'MON, v.t. [dis and common.]
- To appropriate common land; to separate and inclose common. – Cowel.
- To deprive of the privileges of a place. – Warton.
DIS-COM'MON-ED, pp.
Appropriated, as land.
DIS-COM'MON-ING, ppr.
Appropriating; separating or inclosing common land.
DIS-COM-PLEX'ION, v.t.
To change the complexion or color. [Not used.] – Beaum.
DIS-COM-POSE', v.t. [discompo'ze; dis and compose.]
- To unsettle; to disorder; to disturb; applied to things.
- To disturb peace and quietness; to agitate; to ruffle; applied to the temper or mind; expressing less agitation than fret and vex, or expressing vexation with decorum. – Swift.
- To displace; to discard. [Not in use.] – Bacon.
DIS-COM-POS'ED, pp.
Unsettled; disordered; ruffled; agitated; disturbed.
DIS-COM-POS'ING, ppr.
Unsettling; putting out of order; ruffling; agitating; disturbing tranquility.
Inconsistency. [Not used.]
DIS-COM-POS'URE, n. [discompo'zhur.]
Disorder; agitation; disturbance; perturbation; as, discomposure of mind. – Clarendon.
DIS-CON-CERT', v.t. [dis and concert.]
- To break or interrupt any order, plan or harmonious scheme; to defeat; to frustrate. The emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. Their schemes were disconcerted.
- To unsettle the mind; to discompose; to disturb; to confuse. An unexpected question may disconcert the ablest advocate in his argument.
DIS-CON-CERT'ED, pp.
Broken; interrupted; disordered; defeated; unsettled; discomposed; confused.
DIS-CON-CERT'ING, ppr.
Disordering; defeating; discomposing; disturbing.
DIS-CON-CER'TION, n.
The act of disconcerting. – Federalist, Hamilton.
DIS-CON-FORM'I-TY, n. [dis and conformity.]
Want of agreement or conformity; inconsistency. – Hakewill.
DIS-CON-GRU'I-TY, n. [dis and congruity.]
Want of congruity; incongruity; disagreement; inconsistency. – Hale.
DIS-CON-NECT', v.t. [dis and connect.]
To separate; to disunite; to dissolve connection. The commonwealth would, in a few generations, crumble away, be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. – Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals. – Walsh.
DIS-CON-NECT'ED, pp.
Separated; disunited. This word is not synonymous with unconnected, though often confounded with it. Disconnected implies a previous connection; unconnected does not necessarily imply any previous union.