Dictionary: DIS'ARD – DIS-A-VOUCH'

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DIS'ARD, n. [Sax. dysig, foolish.]

A prattler; a boasting talker. [Obs.]

DIS-ARM', v.t. [s as z; Fr. desarmer; Sp. and Port. desarmar; dis and arm.]

  1. To deprive of arms; to take the arms or weapons from, usually by force or authority; as, he disarmed his foes; the prince gave orders to disarm his subjects. With of before the thing taken away; as, to disarm one of his weapons.
  2. To deprive of means of attack or defense; as, to disarm a venomous serpent.
  3. To deprive of force, strength or means of annoyance; to render harmless; to quell; as, to disarm rage or passion.
  4. To strip; to divest of any thing injurious or threatening; as, piety disarms death of its terrors.

DIS-ARM'A-MENT, a.

Act of disarming.

DIS-ARM'ED, pp.

Deprived of arms; stripped of the means of defense or annoyance; rendered harmless; subdued.

DIS-ARM'ING, ppr.

Stripping of arms or weapons; subduing; rendering harmless.

DIS-AR-RANGE', v.t. [dis and arrange.]

To put out of order; to unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of parts. – Warton. [See Derange, which is more generally used.]

DIS-AR-RANG'ED, pp.

Put out of order; disturbing.

DIS-AR-RANGE'MENT, n.

The act of disturbing order or method; disorder. – Baxter.

DIS-AR-RANG'ING, ppr.

Putting out of order; disturbing the arrangement of.

DIS-AR-RAY', a.

  1. Disorder; confusion; loss or want of array or regular order. – Dryden.
  2. Undress. Spenser.

DIS-AR-RAY', v.t. [dis and array.]

  1. To undress; to divest of clothes. – Spenser.
  2. To throw into disorder; to rout; as, troops. – Milton.

DIS-AR-RAY'ED, pp.

Divested of clothes or array; disordered.

DIS-AR-RAY'ING, ppr.

Divesting of clothes; throwing into disorder.

DIS-AS-SI-DU'I-TY, n.

Want of assiduity or care. [Not used.] – Wotton.

DIS-AS-SO'CIATE, v.t.

To disunite; to disconnect things associated.

DIS-AS-SO'CIA-TED, pp.

Disunited.

DIS-AS-SO'CIA-TING, ppr.

Disuniting.

DIS-AS'TER, n. [diz'aster; Fr. desastre; Sp. and Port. id.; It. disastro; dis and astre; Gr. αςηρ, a star; a word of astrological origin.]

  1. A blast or stroke of an unfavorable planet. [Obs.] – Shak.
  2. Misfortune; mishap; calamity; any unfortunate event, especially a sudden misfortune; as, we met with many disasters on the road.

DIS-AS'TER, v.t.

To blast by the stroke of an unlucky planet; also, to injure; to afflict. – Shak. Thomson.

DIS-AS'TER-ED, pp.

Blasted; injured; afflicted.

DIS-AS'TROUS, a.

  1. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning loss or injury; as, the day was disastrous; the battle proved disastrous; their fate was disastrous. Fly the pursuit of my disastrous love. – Dryden.
  2. Gloomy; dismal; threatening disaster. The moon / In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. – Milton.

DIS-AS'TROUS-LY, adv.

Unfortunately; in a dismal manner.

DIS-AS'TROUS-NESS, n.

Unfortunateness; calamitousness.

DIS-AU'THOR-IZE, v.t. [dis and authorize.]

To deprive of credit or authority. [Little used.] – Wotton.

DIS-A-VOUCH', v.t. [dis and avouch. See Vow.]

To retract profession; to deny; to disown. [Little used.] – Davies.