Dictionary: DIS-A-GREE'A-BLE-NESS – DIS-AN-NUL'

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DIS-A-GREE'A-BLE-NESS, n.

  1. Unsuitableness; contrariety.
  2. Unpleasantness; offensiveness to the mind, or to the senses; as, the disagreeableness of another's manners; the disagreeableness of a taste, sound, or smell.

DIS-A-GREE'A-BLY, adv.

Unsuitably; unpleasantly; offensively.

DIS-A-GREED', pp.

of Disagree.

DIS-A-GREE'ING, ppr.

Differing; not according or coinciding.

DIS-A-GREE'MENT, a.

  1. Difference, either in form or essence; dissimilitude; diversity; as, the disagreement of two ideas, of two pictures, of two stories or narrations.
  2. Difference of opinion or sentiments. – Hooker.
  3. Unsuitableness.

DIS-AL-LI'ED, a.

Separated from alliance.

DIS-AL-LI'ED, pp.

Improperly allied.

DIS-AL-LIEGE', v.t.

To alienate from allegiance. [Not in use.] – Milton.

DIS-AL-LOW', v.t. [dis and allow.]

  1. To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; not to make or suppose lawful; not to authorize; to disprove. God disallows that Christians should conform to the immoral practices of the world. A good man disallows every kind of profaneness.
  2. To testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent. But if her father shall disallow her in the day that he heareth, not any of her vows or her bonds … shall stand. – Num. xxx.
  3. Not to approve; not to receive; to reject. To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious. – 1 Pet. ii.
  4. Not to allow or admit as just; to reject; as, to disallow an account or charge.

DIS-AL-LOW'A-BLE, a.

Not allowable; not to be suffered.

DIS-AL-LOW'ANCE, n.

Disapprobation; refusal to admit of permit; prohibition; rejection.

DIS-AL-LOW'ED, pp.

Not granted, permitted, or admitted; disapproved; rejected.

DIS-AL-LOW'ING, ppr.

Not permitting; not admitting; disapproving; rejecting.

DIS-AL-LY', v.t. [dis and ally.]

To form an improper alliance. – Milton.

DIS-AL-LY'ING, ppr.

Forming a disadvantageous alliance.

DIS-AN'CHOR, v.t. [dis and anchor.]

To force from its anchors, as a ship.

DIS-AN'CHOR-ED, pp.

Forced from its anchors.

DIS-AN'CHOR-ING, ppr.

Forcing a ship from its anchors.

DIS-AN-GEL'IC-AL, a.

Not angelical. [Not used.] – Coventry.

DIS-AN'I-MATE, v.t. [dis and animate.]

  1. To deprive of life. [Not used.]
  2. To deprive of spirit or courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject. – Boyle.

DIS-AN'I-MA-TED, pp.

Discouraged; dispirited.

DIS-AN'I-MAT-ING, ppr.

Discouraging; disheartening.

DIS-AN-I-MA'TION, n.

  1. The act of discouraging; depression of spirits.
  2. Privation of life. [Not used.] – Brown.

DIS-AN-NEX', v.t.

To separate; to disunite.

DIS-AN-NUL', v.

An improper word. [See Annul.]