Dictionary: DIS-HON'OR-A-RY – DIS-IN-FECT'ING

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DIS-HON'OR-A-RY, a. [dizon'orary.]

Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening the reputation. – Holmes.

DIS-HON'OR-ED, pp.

Disgraced; brought into disrepute.

DIS-HON'OR-ER, n.

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity. – Milton.

DIS-HON'OR-ING, ppr.

Disgracing; bringing into disrepute; treating with indignity.

DIS-HORN', v.t. [dis and horn.]

To deprive of horns. – Shak.

DIS-HORN'ED, pp.

Stripped of horns.

DIS-HORN'ING, ppr.

Depriving of horns.

DIS-HU'MOR, n. [dis and humor.]

Peevishness; ill humor. – Spectator.

DISH'-WASH-ER, n.

The name of a bird, the mergus. – Johnson.

DISH'-WA-TER, n.

Water in which dishes are washed.

DIS-IM-PARK', v.t. [dis, in and park.]

To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or seclusion. [Little used.] – Spectator.

DIS-IM-PROVE'MENT, n. [dis and improvement.]

Reduction from a better to a worse state; the contrary to improvement or melioration; as, the disimprovement of the earth. [Little used.] – Norris. Swift.

DIS-IN-CAR'CE-RATE, v.t. [dis and incarcerate.]

To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. [Not much used.] – Harvey.

DIS-IN-CLIN-A'TION, n. [dis and inclination.]

Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing less than hate. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. – Arbuthnot.

DIS-IN-CLINE', v.t. [dis and incline.]

To excite dislike or slight aversion; to make disaffected; to alienate from. His timidity disinclined him from such an arduous enterprise.

DIS-IN-CLIN'ED, pp.

Not inclined; averse.

DIS-IN-CLIN'ING, ppr.

Exciting dislike or slight aversion.

DIS-IN-CLOSE', v.t. [dis and inclose.]

To open an inclosure; to throw open what has been inclosed; to dispark.

DIS-IN-COR'PO-RATE, v.t.

  1. To deprive of corporate power; to disunite a corporate body, or an established society. – Hume.
  2. To detach or separate from a corporation or society. – Bacon.

DIS-IN-COR'PO-RA-TED, pp.

Deprived of corporate powers.

DIS-IN-COR'PO-RA-TING, ppr.

Depriving of corporate powers.

DIS-IN-COR'POR-A-TION, n.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. – Warton.

DIS-IN-FECT', v.t. [dis and infect.]

To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.

DIS-IN-FECT'ED, pp.

Cleansed from infection.

DIS-IN-FECT'ING, ppr.

Purifying from infection.