Dictionary: DIS-EN-CUM'BER-ING – DIS-EN-TRANC'ED

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DIS-EN-CUM'BER-ING, ppr.

Freeing from encumbrance.

DIS-EN-CUM'BRANCE, n.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or any thing burdensome or troublesome. – Spectator.

DIS-EN-GAGE', v.t. [dis and engage.]

  1. To separate, as substance from any thing with which it is in union; to free; to loose; to liberate; as, to disengage a metal from extraneous substances. Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process. – Lavoisier.
  2. To separate from that to which one adheres, or is attached; as, to disengage a man from a party.
  3. To disentangle; to extricate; to clear from impediments, difficulties or perplexities; as, to disengage one from broils or controversies.
  4. To detach; to withdraw; to wean; as, to disengage the heart or affections from earthly pursuits.
  5. To free from any thing that commands the mind, or employs the attention; as, to disengage the mind from study; to disengage one's self from business.
  6. To release or liberate from a promise or obligation; to set free by dissolving an engagement; as, the men, who were enlisted, are now disengaged; the lady, who had promised to give her hand in marriage, is disengaged. Let it be observed, that disengaged properly implies previous engagement; and is not to be confounded with unengaged, which does not always imply prior engagement. This distinction is sometimes carelessly overlooked.

DIS-EN-GAG'ED, pp.

  1. Separated; detached; set free; released; disjoined; disentangled.
  2. adj. Vacant; being at leisure; not particularly occupied; not having the attention confined to a particular object. [This word is thus used by mistake for unengaged, not engaged.]

DIS-EN-GAG'ED-NESS, n.

  1. The quality or state of being disengaged; freedom from connection; disjunction.
  2. Vacuity of attention.

DIS-EN-GAGE'MENT, n.

  1. A setting free; separation; extrication. It easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. – Lavoisier.
  2. The act of separating or detaching.
  3. Liberation or release from obligation.
  4. Freedom from attention; vacancy; leisure.

DIS-EN-GAG'ING, ppr.

Separating; loosing; setting free; detaching; liberating; releasing from obligation.

DIS-EN-NO'BLE, v.t.

To deprive of title, or of that which ennobles. – Guardian.

DIS-EN-NO'BLED, pp.

Deprived of title or of that which ennobles.

DIS-EN-ROLL', v.i.

To erase from a roll or list. – Donne.

DIS-EN-ROLL'ED, pp.

Erased from a roll.

DIS-EN-ROLL'ING, ppr.

Erasing from a roll or list.

DIS-EN-SLAVE', v.t.

To free from bondage. – South.

DIS-EN-TAN'GLE, v.t. [dis and entangle.]

  1. To unravel; to unfold; to untwist; to loose, separate or disconnect things which are interwoven, or united without order; as, to disentangle net-work; to disentangle a skain of yarn.
  2. To free; to extricate from perplexity; to disengage from complicated concerns; to set free from impediments or difficulties; as, to disentangle one's self from business, from political affairs, or from the cares and temptations of life.
  3. To disengage; to separate.

DIS-EN-TAN'GLED, pp.

Freed from entanglement; extricated.

DIS-EN-TAN'GLING, ppr.

Freeing from entanglement; extricating.

DIS-EN-TER', v. [See DISINTER.]

DIS-EN-THRALL', v. [See DISINTHRALL.]

DIS-EN-THRONE', v.t. [dis and enthrone.]

To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority; as, to disenthrone a king. – Milton.

DIS-EN-THRON'ED, pp.

Deposed; deprived of sovereign power.

DIS-EN-THRON'ING, ppr.

Deposing; depriving of royal authority.

DIS-EN-TI'TLE, v.t.

To deprive of title. – South.

DIS-EN-TI'TLED, pp.

Deprived of title.

DIS-EN-TRANCE', v.t. [dis and entrance.]

To awaken from a trance, or from deep sleep; to arouse from a revery. – Hudibras.

DIS-EN-TRANC'ED, pp.

Awakened from a trance, sleep or revery.