Dictionary: DIS-A-VOW' – DIS-BURD'EN

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DIS-A-VOW', v.t. [dis and avow. See Vow.]

  1. 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.
  2. To deny; to disown; to reject.
  3. 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.

  1. Denial; a disowning. A disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. – Clarissa.
  2. 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.

  1. To retire from military; to separate; to break up; as, the army, at the close of the war, disbands.
  2. To separate; to dissolve connection. Human society may disband. [Improper.] – Tillotson.
  3. To be dissolved. [Not used.] When both rocks and all things shall be disband. – Herbert.

DIS-BAND', v.t. [dis and band; Fr. debander.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.]

  1. To cut off or separate, as the branch of a tree. [Little used.]
  2. 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.]

  1. To remove a burden from; to unload; to discharge. – Milton.
  2. 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.