Dictionary: DIS-CON-NECT'ING – DIS-CON-TIN'U-ING

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DIS-CON-NECT'ING, ppr.

Separating; disuniting.

DIS-CON-NEC'TION, n.

The act of separating, or state of being disunited; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members, but weakness, disconnection and confusion. – Burke.

DIS-CON-SENT', v.i. [dis and consent.]

To differ; to disagree; not to consent. – Milton.

DIS-CON'SO-LANCE, n.

Disconsolateness.

DIS-CON'SO-LATE, a. [dis and L. consolatus. See Console.]

  1. Destitute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; hopeless or not expecting comfort; sad; dejected; melancholy; as, a parent, bereaved of an only child and disconsolate.
  2. Not affording comfort; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of a winter's night. – Ray.

DIS-CON'SO-LATE-LY, adv.

In a disconsolate manner; without comfort.

DIS-CON'SO-LATE-NESS, n.

The state of being disconsolate or comfortless.

DIS-CON-SO-LA'TION, n.

Want of comfort. – Jackson.

DIS-CON-TENT', a.

Uneasy; dissatisfied. – Hayward.

DIS-CON-TENT', n. [dis and content.]

Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction at any present state of things.

DIS-CON-TENT', v.t.

To make uneasy at the present state; to dissatisfy.

DIS-CON-TENT'ED, pp. [or a.]

Uneasy in mind; dissatisfied; unquiet; as, discontented citizens make bad subjects.

DIS-CON-TENT'ED-LY, adv.

In a discontented manner or mood.

DIS-CON-TENT'ED-NESS, n.

Uneasiness of mind; inquietude; dissatisfaction. – Addison.

DIS-CON-TENT'FUL, a.

Full of discontent.

DIS-CON-TENT'ING, a.

Giving uneasiness.

DIS-CON-TENT'MENT, n.

The state of being uneasy in mind; uneasiness; inquietude; discontent. – Hooker. Bacon.

DIS-CON-TIN'U-A-BLE, a.

That may be discontinued.

DIS-CON-TIN'U-ANCE, n. [See Discontinue.]

  1. Want of continuance; cessation; intermission; interruption of continuance; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse. – Atterbury.
  2. Want of continued connection or cohesion of parts; want of union; disruption. – Bacon.
  3. In law, a breaking off or interruption of possession, as where a tenant in tail makes a feoffment in fee-simple, or for the life of the feoffee, or in tail, which he has not power to do; in this case, the entry of the feoffee is lawful during the life of the feoffor; but if he retains possession after the death of the feoffor, it is an injury which is termed a discontinuance, the legal estate of the heir in tail being discontinued, till a recovery can be had in law. – Blackstone.
  4. Discontinuance of a suit, is when a plaintif leaves a chasm in the proceedings in his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day; in which case the defendant is not bound to attend. Formerly the demise of the king caused a discontinuance of all suits; but this is remedied by statute I Edw. VI. – Blackstone.

DIS-CON-TIN-U-A'TION, n.

Breach or interruption of continuity; disruption of parts; separation of parts which form a connected series. – Newton.

DIS-CON-TIN'UE, v.i.

  1. To cease; to leave the possession, or lose an established or long enjoyed right. Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. – Jer. xvii.
  2. To lose the cohesion of parts; to suffer disruption or separation of substance. [Little used.] – Bacon.

DIS-CON-TIN'UE, v.t. [dis and continue.]

  1. To leave off; to cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to stop; to put an end to; as, to discontinue the intemperate use of spirits. Inveterate customs are not discontinued without inconvenience. The depredations of our commerce were not to be discontinued. – T. Pickering.
  2. To break off; to interrupt.
  3. To cease to take or receive; as, to discontinue a daily paper.

DIS-CON-TIN'U-ED, pp.

Left off; interrupted; broken off.

DIS-CONTIN'U-ER, n.

One who discontinues a rule or practice.

DIS-CON-TIN'U-ING, ppr.

Ceasing; interrupting; breaking off.