Dictionary: DIS-COM-MEND'ING – DIS-CON-NECT'ED

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DIS-COM-MEND'ING, ppr.

Blaming; censuring.

DIS-COM'MO-DATE, v.t.

To incommode. [Not used.]

DIS-COM-MODE', v.t. [dis and commode, Fr.]

To put to inconvenience; to incommode; to molest; to trouble.

DIS-COM-MOD'ED, pp.

Put to inconvenience; molested; incommoded.

DIS-COM-MOD'ING, ppr.

Putting to inconvenience; giving trouble to.

DIS-COM-MO'DI-OUS, a.

Inconvenient; troublesome. – Spenser.

DIS-COM-MO'DI-OUS-LY, adv.

In a discommodious manner.

DIS-COM-MOD'I-TY, n.

Inconvenience; trouble; hurt; disadvantage. – Bacon.

DIS-COM'MON, v.t. [dis and common.]

  1. To appropriate common land; to separate and inclose common. – Cowel.
  2. To deprive of the privileges of a place. – Warton.

DIS-COM'MON-ED, pp.

Appropriated, as land.

DIS-COM'MON-ING, ppr.

Appropriating; separating or inclosing common land.

DIS-COM-PLEX'ION, v.t.

To change the complexion or color. [Not used.] – Beaum.

DIS-COM-POSE', v.t. [discompo'ze; dis and compose.]

  1. To unsettle; to disorder; to disturb; applied to things.
  2. To disturb peace and quietness; to agitate; to ruffle; applied to the temper or mind; expressing less agitation than fret and vex, or expressing vexation with decorum. – Swift.
  3. To displace; to discard. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

DIS-COM-POS'ED, pp.

Unsettled; disordered; ruffled; agitated; disturbed.

DIS-COM-POS'ING, ppr.

Unsettling; putting out of order; ruffling; agitating; disturbing tranquility.

DIS-COM-PO-SI'TION, n.

Inconsistency. [Not used.]

DIS-COM-POS'URE, n. [discompo'zhur.]

Disorder; agitation; disturbance; perturbation; as, discomposure of mind. – Clarendon.

DIS-CON-CERT', v.t. [dis and concert.]

  1. To break or interrupt any order, plan or harmonious scheme; to defeat; to frustrate. The emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. Their schemes were disconcerted.
  2. To unsettle the mind; to discompose; to disturb; to confuse. An unexpected question may disconcert the ablest advocate in his argument.

DIS-CON-CERT'ED, pp.

Broken; interrupted; disordered; defeated; unsettled; discomposed; confused.

DIS-CON-CERT'ING, ppr.

Disordering; defeating; discomposing; disturbing.

DIS-CON-CER'TION, n.

The act of disconcerting. – Federalist, Hamilton.

DIS-CON-FORM'I-TY, n. [dis and conformity.]

Want of agreement or conformity; inconsistency. – Hakewill.

DIS-CON-GRU'I-TY, n. [dis and congruity.]

Want of congruity; incongruity; disagreement; inconsistency. – Hale.

DIS-CON-NECT', v.t. [dis and connect.]

To separate; to disunite; to dissolve connection. The commonwealth would, in a few generations, crumble away, be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. – Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals. – Walsh.

DIS-CON-NECT'ED, pp.

Separated; disunited. This word is not synonymous with unconnected, though often confounded with it. Disconnected implies a previous connection; unconnected does not necessarily imply any previous union.