Dictionary: DIS-SAT-IS-FAC'TO-RY – DIS-SEM'IN-A-TED

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DIS-SAT-IS-FAC'TO-RY, a.

Unable to give content. – Johnson. Rather, giving discontent; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different states, to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the states, as difficult for the convention. – Hamilton. Mitford.

DIS-SAT'IS-FI-ED, pp.

  1. Made discontented; displeased.
  2. adj. Discontented; not satisfied; not pleased; offended. – Locke.

DIS-SAT'IS-FY, v.t.

To render discontented; to displease; to excite uneasiness by frustrating wishes or expectations.

DIS-SAT'IS-FY-ING, ppr.

Exciting uneasiness or discontent.

DIS-SEAT', v.t.

To remove from a seat. – Shak.

DIS-SECT', v.t. [L. disseco, dissectus; dis and seco, to cut; Fr. dissequer.]

  1. To cut in pieces; to divide an animal body, with a cutting instrument, by separating the joints; as, to dissect a fowl. Hence appropriately,
  2. To cut in pieces, as an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of examining the structure and use of its several parts; to anatomize. Also, to open any part of a body to observe its morbid appearances, or to ascertain the cause of death or the seat of a disease.
  3. To divide into its constituent parts, for the purpose of examination; as, dissect your hand; dissect a paragraph. – Roscommon. Pope.

DIS-SECT'ED, pp.

Cut in pieces; separated by parting the joints; divided into its constituent parts; opened and examined.

DIS-SEC'TING, ppr.

Cutting in pieces; dividing the parts; separating constituent parts for minute examination.

DIS-SEC'TION, a. [L. dissectio.]

  1. The act of cutting in pieces an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of examining the structure and uses of its parts; anatomy. Dissection was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. – Encyc.
  2. The act of separating into constituent parts, for the purpose of critical examination.

DIS-SEC'TOR, n.

One who dissects; an anatomist.

DIS-SEIZE', v.t. [dis and seize; Fr. dessaisir.]

In law, to dispossess wrongfully; to deprive of actual seizin or possession; followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. A man may suppose himself disseized, when he is not so. – Blackstone.

DIS-SEIZ'ED, pp.

Put out of possession wrongfully or by force; deprived of actual possession.

DIS-SEIZ-EE', n.

A person put out of possession of an estate unlawfully.

DIS-SEIZ'IN, n.

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing of a person of his lands, tenements, or incorporeal hereditaments; a deprivation of actual seizin. – Blackstone.

DIS-SEIZ'ING, ppr.

Depriving of actual seizin or possession; putting out of possession.

DIS-SEIZ'OR, n.

One who puts another out of possession wrongfully; he that dispossesses another. – Blackstone.

DIS-SEM'BLANCE, n. [dis and semblance.]

Want of resemblance. [Little used.] Osborne.

DIS-SEM'BLE, v.i.

To be hypocritical; to assume a false appearance; to conceal the real fact, motives, intention or sentiments under some pretense. Ye have stolen and dissembled also. – Josh. vii. He that hateth, dissembleth with his lips. – Prov. xxvi.

DIS-SEM'BLE, v.t. [L. dissimulo; dis and simulo, from similis, like; Fr. dissimuler; It. dissimulare; Sp. disimular; Arm. diçzumula.]

  1. To hide under a false appearance; to conceal; to disguise; to pretend that not to be which really is; as, I will not dissemble the truth; I can not dissemble my real sentiments. [This is the proper sense of this word.]
  2. To pretend that to be which is not; to make a false appearance of. This is the sense of simulate. Your son Lucentio / Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him, / Or both dissemble deeply their affections. – Shak.

DIS-SEM'BLED, pp.

Concealed under a false appearance; disguised.

DIS-SEM'BLER, n.

One who dissembles; a hypocrite; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance.

DIS-SEM'BLING, ppr.

Hiding under a false appearance; acting the hypocrite.

DIS-SEM'BLING-LY, adv.

With dissimulation; hypocritically; falsely. – Knolles.

DIS-SEM'I-NATE, v.t. [L. dissemino; dis and semino, to sow, from semen, seed.]

  1. Literally, to sow; to scatter seed; but seldom or never used in its literal sense. But hence,
  2. To scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread. Thus, principles, opinions and errors are disseminated, when they are spread and propagated. To disseminate truth or the gospel is highly laudable.
  3. To spread; to diffuse. A uniform heat disseminated through the body of the earth. – Woodward.
  4. To spread; to disperse. The Jews are disseminated through all the trading parts of the world. – Addison. [The second is the most proper application of the word, as it should always include the idea of growth or taking root. The fourth sense is hardly vindicable.]

DIS-SEM'IN-A-TED, pp.

  1. Scattered, as seed; propagated; spread.
  2. In mineralogy, occurring in portions less than a hazel nut; being scattered.