Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-A-VOW' – DIS-BURD'EN
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DIS-A-VOW', v.t. [dis and avow. See Vow.]
- To deny; to disown; to deny to be true, as a fact or charge respecting one's self; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the fact. A man may disavow his name or signature; he may disavow a knowledge of a fact, or his concern in a transaction. Opposed to own or acknowledge.
- To deny; to disown; to reject.
- To dissent from; not to admit as true or justifiable; not to vindicate. The envoy disavowed some parts of the President's proclamation.
DIS-A-VOW'AL, n.
- Denial; a disowning. A disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. – Clarissa.
- Rejection; a declining to vindicate.
DIS-A-VOW'ED, pp.
Denied; disowned.
DIS-A-VOW'ING, ppr.
Denying; disowning; rejecting as something not to be maintained or vindicated.
DIS-A-VOW'MENT, n.
Denial; a disowning. – Wotton.
DIS-BAND', v.i.
- To retire from military; to separate; to break up; as, the army, at the close of the war, disbands.
- To separate; to dissolve connection. Human society may disband. [Improper.] – Tillotson.
- To be dissolved. [Not used.] When both rocks and all things shall be disband. – Herbert.
DIS-BAND', v.t. [dis and band; Fr. debander.]
- To dismiss from military service; to break up a band, or body of men enlisted; as, to disband an army or a regiment; to disband troops.
- To scatter; to disperse. – Woodward.
DIS-BAND'ED, pp.
Dismissed from military service; separated.
DIS-BAND'ING, ppr.
Dismissing from military service; separating; dissolving connection.
DIS-BARK', v.t. [Fr. debarquer, or dis and bark; a word not well formed, and little used. We now use debark and disembark.]
To land from a ship; to put on shore. – Pope.
DIS-BE-LIEF', n. [dis and belief.]
Refusal of credit or faith; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. – Tillotson.
DIS-BE-LIEVE', v.t. [dis and believe.]
Not to believe; to hold not to be true or not to exist; to refuse to credit. Some men disbelieve the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the immortality of the soul.
DIS-BE-LIEV'ED, pp.
Not believed; discredited.
DIS-BE-LIEV'ER, n.
One who refuses belief; one who denies a thing to be true or real. – Watts.
DIS-BE-LIEV'ING, ppr.
Withholding belief; discrediting.
DIS-BENCH', v.t. [dis and bench.]
To drive from a bench or seat. – Shak.
DIS-BLAME', v.t.
To clear from blame. [Not used.] – Chaucer.
DIS-BO'DIED, a.
Disembodied, which is the word now used.
DIS-BOW'EL, v.t. [dis and bowel.]
To take out the intestines. – Spenser.
DIS-BOW'EL-ED, pp.
Eviscerated; deprived of intestines.
DIS-BOW'EL-ING, ppr.
Taking out the intestines.
DIS-BRANCH', v.t. [dis and branch.]
- To cut off or separate, as the branch of a tree. [Little used.]
- To deprive of branches. [Little used.] – Evelyn.
DIS-BUD', v.t.
To deprive of buds or shoots. – Gardeners.
DIS-BURD'EN, v.i. [dis and burden. See Burden.]
- To remove a burden from; to unload; to discharge. – Milton.
- To throw off a burden; to disencumber; to clear of any thing weighty, troublesome or cumbersome; as, to disburden one's self of grief or care; to disburden of superfluous ornaments.
DIS-BURD'EN, v.t.
To ease the mind; to be relieved. – Milton.