Dictionary: DIS-IN-FEC'TION – DIS-IN-TER'MENT

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DIS-IN-FEC'TION, n.

Purification from infecting matter. – Med. Repos.

DIS-IN-GE-NU'I-TY, n. [dis and ingenuity.]

Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of candor. – Clarendon. [This word is little used, or not at all, in the sense here explained. See Ingenuity. We now use in lieu of it, disingenuousness.]

DIS-IN-GEN'U-OUS, a. [dis and ingenuous.]

  1. Unfair; not open, frank and candid; meanly artful; illiberal; applied to persons.
  2. Unfair; meanly artful; unbecoming true honor and dignity; as, disingenuous conduct; disingenuous schemes.

DIS-IN-GEN'U-OUS-LY, adv.

In a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly and candidly; with secret management.

DIS-IN-GEN'U-OUS-NESS, n.

  1. Unfairness; want of candor; low craft; as, the disingenuousness of a man, or of his mind.
  2. Characterized by unfairness, as conduct or practices.

DIS-IN-HAB'IT-ED, pp.

Deprived of inhabitants.

DIS-IN-HER'I-SON, n. [dis and inherit.]

  1. The act of cutting off from hereditary succession; the act of disinheriting. – Bacon. Clarendon.
  2. The state of being disinherited. – Taylor.

DIS-IN-HER'IT, v.t. [dis and inherit.]

To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; to prevent as an heir from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. A father sometimes disinherits his children by will. In England, the crown is descendible to the eldest son, who cannot be disinherited by the will of his father.

DIS-IN-HER'IT-ED, pp.

Cut off from an inheritance.

DIS-IN-HER'IT-ING, ppr.

Depriving of an hereditary estate or right.

DIS-IN-HUME', v.t.

To disinter.

DIS-IN'TE-GRA-BLE, a. [dis and integer.]

That may be separated into integrant parts; capable of disintegration. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure to the atmosphere. – Kirwan.

DIS-IN'TE-GRATE, v.t. [dis and integer.]

To separate the integrant parts of. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. – Kirwan.

DIS-IN'TE-GRA-TED, pp.

Separated into integrant parts without chimical action.

DIS-IN'TE-GRA-TING, ppr.

Separating into integrant parts.

DIS-IN-TE-GRA'TION, n.

The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of constituent parts. – Kirwan.

DIS-IN-TER', v.t. [dis and inter.]

  1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried.
  2. To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view. The philosopher … may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.] – Addison.

DIS-IN'TER-ESS-ED, or DIS-IN'TER-ESS-MENT, a. [or n.; See DISINTERESTED, &c.]

DIS-IN'TER-EST, n. [dis and interest.]

  1. What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Little used or not at all.] – Glanville.
  2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage. – Johnson.

DIS-IN'TER-EST, v.t.

To disengage from private interest or personal advantage. [Little used.] – Feltham.

DIS-IN'TER-EST-ED, a.

  1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. It is important that a judge should be perfectly disinterested.
  2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as, a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested.]

DIS-IN'TER-EST-ED-LY, adv.

In a disinterested manner.

DIS-IN'TER-EST-ED-NESS, n.

The state or quality of having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or event; freedom from bias or prejudice, on account of private interest; indifference. – Brown.

DIS-IN'TER-EST-ING, a.

Uninteresting. [The latter is the word now used.]

DIS-IN-TER'MENT, n.

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth.