Dictionary: DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TE-LY – DIS-CURS'IVE-LY

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DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TE-LY, adv.

Distinctly; with minute distinction; particularly. – Johnson.

DIS-CRIM'IN-ATE-NESS, n.

Distinctness; marked difference. – Dict.

DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TING, ppr.

  1. Separating; distinguishing; marking with notes of difference.
  2. adj. Distinguishing; peculiar; characterized by peculiar differences; as, the discriminating doctrines of the gospel.
  3. adj. That discriminates; able to make nice distinctions; as, a discriminating mind. – Journ. of Science.

DIS-CRIM-IN-A'TION, n.

  1. The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as, the discrimination between right and wrong.
  2. The state of being distinguished. – Stillingfleet.
  3. Mark of distinction. – K. Charles.

DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TIVE, a.

  1. That makes the mark of distinction; that constitutes the mark of difference; characteristic; as, the discriminative features of men.
  2. That observes distinction; as, discriminative providence. – More.

DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TIVE-LY, adv.

With discrimination or distinction. – Foster.

DIS-CRIM'IN-A-TOR, n.

One who discriminates.

DIS-CRIM'IN-OUS, a.

Hazardous. [Not used.] – Harvey.

DIS-CROWN', v.t.

To deprive of a crown.

DIS-CROWN'ED, pp.

Deprived of a crown.

DIS-CROWN'ING, ppr.

Depriving of a crown. – Campbell.

DIS-CU'BI-TO-RY, a. [L. discubitorius; discumbo; dis and cubo, to lie down or lean.]

Leaning; inclining; or fitted to a leaning posture. – Brown.

DIS-CULP'ATE, v.t. [Fr. disculper; Sp. disculpar; dis and L. culpa, a fault.]

To free from blame or fault; to exculpate; to excuse. Neither does this effect of the independence of nations disculpate the author of an unjust war. – Trans. of Vattel. Hist. of California.

DIS-CUL'PA-TED, pp.

Cleared from blame; exculpated.

DIS-CUL'PA-TING, ppr.

Freeing from blame; excusing,

DIS-CUL-PA'TION, n.

Exculpation.

DIS-CULP'A-TO-RY, a.

Tending to exculpate.

DIS-CUM'BEN-CY, n. [L. discumbens. See Discubitory.]

The act of leaning at meat, according to the manner of the ancients. – Brown.

DIS-CUM'BER, v.t. [dis and cumber.]

To unburden; to throw off anything cumbersome; to disengage from any troublesome weight, or impediment; to disencumber. [The latter is generally used.] – Pope.

DIS-CURE', v.t.

To discover; to reveal. [Not used.] – Spenser.

DIS-CUR'RENT, a.

Not current. [Not used.] Sandys.

DIS-CUR'SION, n. [L. discurro; dis and curro, to run.]

A running or rambling about. – Bailey.

DIS-CURS'IST, n. [See Discourse.]

A disputer. [Not in use.] – L. Addison.

DIS-CURS'IVE, a. [Sp. discursivo, from L. discurro, supra.]

  1. Moving or roving about; desultory. – Bacon.
  2. Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discoursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty. – Hale.

DIS-CURS'IVE-LY, adv.

Argumentatively; in the form of reasoning or argument. – Hale.