Dictionary: DIS-AD-VAN-TA'GEOUS – DIS-AGREE'A-BLE

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DIS-AD-VAN-TA'GEOUS, a.

Unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; not adapted to promote interest, reputation, or other good; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. We are apt to view characters in the most disadvantageous lights.

DIS-AD-VAN-TA'GEOUS-LY, adv.

In a manner not favorable to success, or to interest, profit, or reputation; with loss or inconvenience.

DIS-AD-VAN-TA'GEOUS-NESS, n.

Unfavorableness to success; inconvenience; loss.

DIS-AD-VENT'URE, n.

Misfortune. [Not used.] – Raleigh.

DIS-AD-VENT'UR-OUS, a.

Unprosperous. [Not used.] – Spenser.

DIS-AF-FECT', v.t. [dis and affect.]

  1. To alienate affection; to make less friendly to; to make less faithful to a person, party, or cause, or less zealous to support it; to make discontented or unfriendly; as, an attempt was made to disaffect the army.
  2. To disdain, or dislike. – Hall.
  3. To throw into disorder. – Hammond.

DIS-AF-FECT'ED, pp. [or a.]

Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favor or support; unfriendly; followed by with or to; as, these men are disaffected with the government, or disaffected to the king, or to the administration.

DIS-AF-FECT'ED-LY, adv.

In a disaffected manner.

DIS-AF-FECT'ED-NESS, n.

The quality of being disaffected.

DIS-AF-FECT'ING, ppr.

Alienating the affections; making less friendly.

DIS-AF-FEC'TION, n.

  1. Alienation of affection, attachment, or good will; want of affection; or more generally, positive enmity, dislike, or unfriendliness; disloyalty. It generally signifies more than indifference; as, the disaffection of people to their prince or government; the disaffection of allies; disaffection to religion.
  2. Disorder; bad constitution; in a physical sense. [Little used.] – Wiseman.

DIS-AF-FEC'TION-ATE, a.

Not well disposed; not friendly. – Blount.

DIS-AF-FIRM', v.t. [disafferm'; dis and affirm.]

  1. To deny; to contradict. – Davies.
  2. To overthrow or annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.

DIS-AF-FIRM'ANCE, n.

  1. Denial; negation; disproof; confutation. – Hale.
  2. Overthrow or annulment, by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment.

DIS-AF-FIRM'ED, pp.

Denied; contradicted; overthrown.

DIS-AF-FIRM'ING, ppr.

Denying; contradicting; annulling.

DIS-AF-FOR'EST, v.t. [dis and afforest.]

To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges. By Charter 9 Hen. III many forests were disafforested. – Blackstone.

DIS-AF-FOR'EST-ED, pp.

Stripped of forest privileges.

DIS-AF-FOR'EST-ING, ppr.

Depriving of forest privileges.

DIS-AG'GRE-GATE, v.t. [dis and aggregate.]

To separate an aggregate mass into its component parts. – Dispensatory.

DIS-AG'GRE-GA-TED, pp.

Separated, as an aggregate mass.

DIS-AG'GRE-GA-TING, ppr.

Separating, as the parts of an aggregate body.

DIS-AG-GRE-GA'TION, n.

The act or operation of separating an aggregate body into its component parts.

DIS-A-GREE', v.t. [dis and agree.]

  1. To differ; to be not accordant coincident; to be not the same; to be not exactly similar. Two ideas disagree, when they are not the same, or when they are not exactly alike. The histories of the same fact often disagree.
  2. To differ, as in opinion; as, the best judges sometimes disagree. Who shall decide when doctors disagree? – Pope.
  3. To be unsuitable. Medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.
  4. To differ; to be in opposition. Men often reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it disagrees with their reason or preconceived opinions. – Anon. It is usually followed by with. But we say, I disagree to your proposal. The use of from after disagree is not common.

DIS-AGREE'A-BLE, a.

  1. Contrary; unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous. [Little used.] This conduct was disagreeable to her natural sincerity. – Broome.
  2. Unpleasing; offensive to the mind, or to the senses; but expressing less than disgusting and odious. Behavior may be disagreeable to our minds; food may be disagreeable to the taste; many things are disagreeable to the sight; sounds may be disagreeable to the ear, and odors to the smell. Whatever is disagreeable gives some pain or uneasiness.