Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-AD-VAN-TA'GEOUS – DIS-AGREE'A-BLE
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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.
Unfavorableness to success; inconvenience; loss.
DIS-AD-VENT'URE, n.
Misfortune. [Not used.] – Raleigh.
Unprosperous. [Not used.] – Spenser.
DIS-AF-FECT', v.t. [dis and affect.]
- 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.
- To disdain, or dislike. – Hall.
- 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.
The quality of being disaffected.
DIS-AF-FECT'ING, ppr.
Alienating the affections; making less friendly.
DIS-AF-FEC'TION, n.
- 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.
- Disorder; bad constitution; in a physical sense. [Little used.] – Wiseman.
Not well disposed; not friendly. – Blount.
DIS-AF-FIRM', v.t. [disafferm'; dis and affirm.]
- To deny; to contradict. – Davies.
- To overthrow or annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.
DIS-AF-FIRM'ANCE, n.
- Denial; negation; disproof; confutation. – Hale.
- 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.
The act or operation of separating an aggregate body into its component parts.
DIS-A-GREE', v.t. [dis and agree.]
- 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.
- To differ, as in opinion; as, the best judges sometimes disagree. Who shall decide when doctors disagree? – Pope.
- To be unsuitable. Medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.
- 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.
- Contrary; unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous. [Little used.] This conduct was disagreeable to her natural sincerity. – Broome.
- 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.