Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-EN-TRANC'ING – DIS-FOR-EST
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DIS-EN-TRANC'ING, ppr.
Arousing from a trance, sleep or revery.
DIS-E-SPOUSE', v.t. [disespouz'; dis and espouse.]
To separate after espousal or plighted faith; to divorce. – Milton.
DIS-E-SPOUS'ED, pp.
Separated after espousal; released from obligation to marry.
DIS-E-SPOUS'ING, ppr.
Separating after plighted faith.
DIS-E-STAB'LISH, v.t.
To remove from establishment.
DIS-E-STEEM', n. [dis and esteem.]
Want of esteem; slight dislike; disregard. It expresses less than hatred or contempt. – Locke.
DIS-E-STEEM', v.t.
To dislike in a moderate degree; to consider with disregard, disapprobation, dislike or slight contempt; to slight. But if this sacred gift you disesteem. – Denham.
DIS-E-STEEM'ED, pp.
Disliked; slighted.
DIS-E-STEEM'ING, ppr.
Disliking; slighting.
Disesteem; bad repute.
DIS-EX'ER-CISE, v.t.
To deprive of exercise. [A bad word.] – Milton.
DIS-FAN'CY, v.t.
To dislike. [Not used.] – Hammond.
DIS-FA'VOR, n. [dis and favor.]
- Dislike; slight displeasure; discountenance; unfavorable regard; disesteem; as, the conduct of the minister incurred the disfavor of his sovereign.
- A state of unacceptableness; a state in which one is not esteemed or favored, or not patronized, promoted or befriended; as, to be in disfavor at court.
- An ill or disobliging act; as, no generous man will do a disfavor to the meanest of his species.
DIS-FA'VOR, v.t.
To discountenance; to withdraw or withhold from one, kindness, friendship or support; to check or oppose by disapprobation; as, let the man be countenanced or disfavored, according to his merits.
DIS-FA'VOR-ED, pp.
Discountenanced; not favored.
DIS-FA'VOR-ER, n.
One who discountenances. – Bacon.
DIS-FA'VOR-ING, ppr.
Discountenancing.
DIS-FEA'TURE, v.
To deprive of features; to disfigure.
DIS-FIG-U-RA'TION, n. [See Disfigure.]
- The act of disfiguring, or marring external form.
- The state of being disfigured; some degree of deformity.
DIS-FIG'URE, v.t. [dis and figure.]
- To change to a worse form; to mar external figure; to impair shape or form and render it less perfect and beautiful; as, the loss of a limb disfigures the body.
- To mar; to impair; to injure beauty, symmetry or excellence.
DIS-FIG'UR-ED, pp.
Changed to a worse form; impaired in form or appearance.
DIS-FIG'URE-MENT, n.
Change of external form to the worse; defacement of beauty. – Milton. Suckling.
DIS-FIG'UR-ER, n.
One who disfigures.
DIS-FIG'UR-ING, ppr.
Injuring the form or shape; impairing the beauty or form.
DIS-FOR-EST, v. [See DISAFFOREST.]