Dictionary: DIS-SET'TLE – DIS-SI-PA'TION

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DIS-SET'TLE, v.t.

To unsettle. [Not used.] – More.

DIS-SEV'ER, v.t. [dis and sever. In this word, dis, as in dispart, can have no effect, unless to augment the signification; as dis and sever both denote separation.]

To dispart; to part in two; to divide asunder; to separate; to disunite, either by violence or not. When with force, it is equivalent to rend and burst. It may denote either to cut or to tear asunder. In beheading, the head is dissevered from the body. The lightning may dissever a branch from the stem of a tree. Jealousy dissevers the bonds of friendship. The reformation dissevered the Catholic church; it dissevered Protestants from Romanists.

DIS-SEV'ER-ANCE, n.

The act of dissevering; separation.

DIS-SEV-ER-A'TION, n.

Act of dissevering.

DIS-SEV'ER-ED, pp.

Disparted; disjoined; separated.

DIS-SEV'ER-ING, n.

The act of separating; separation.

DIS-SEV'ER-ING, ppr.

Dividing asunder; separating; tearing or cutting asunder.

DIS'SI-DENCE, n. [infra.]

Discord.

DIS'SI-DENT, a. [L. dissideo, to disagree; dis and sedeo, to sit.]

Not agreeing.

DIS'SI-DENT, n.

A dissenter; one who separates from the established religion; a word applied to the members of the Lutheran, Calvinistic and Greek churches in Poland. Encyc.

DIS-SIL'I-ENCE, n. [L. dissilio; dis and salio, to leap.]

The act of leaping or starting asunder.

DIS-SIL'I-ENT, a.

Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force, as the dry pod or capsule of a plant; as, a dissilient pericarp. Martyn.

DIS-SI-LI'TION, n.

The act of bursting open; the act of starting or springing different ways. Boyle.

DIS-SIM'I-LAR, a. [dis and similar.]

Unlike, either in nature, properties or external form; not similar; not having the resemblance of; heterogeneous. Newton denominates dissimilar, the rays of light of different refrangibility. The tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

DIS-SIM-I-LAR'I-TY, n.

Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.

DIS-SIM'I-LE, n. [dissim'ily.]

Comparison or illustration by contraries. [Little used.]

DIS-SIM-IL'I-TUDE, n. [L. dissimilitudo.]

Unlikeness; want of resemblance; as, a dissimilitude of form or character.

DIS-SIM-U-LA'TION, n. [L. dissimulatio; dis and simulatio, from simulo, to make like, similis, like.]

The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; a feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Dissimulation may be simply concealment of the opinions, sentiments or purpose; but it includes also the assuming of a false or counterfeit appearance which conceals the real opinions or purpose. Dissimulation among statesmen is sometimes regarded as a necessary vice, or as no vice at all. Let love be without dissimulation. – Rom. xii.

DIS-SIM'ULE, v.t.

To dissemble. [Not in use.] – Elyot.

DIS'SI-PA-BLE, a. [See Dissipate.]

Liable to be dissipated; that may be scattered or dispersed. The heat of those plants is very dissipable. – Bacon.

DIS'SI-PATE, v.i.

To scatter; to disperse; to separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to vanish. A fog or cloud gradually dissipates, before the rays or heat of the sun. The heat of a body dissipates; the fluids dissipate.

DIS'SI-PATE, v.t. [L. dissipatus, dissipo; dis and an obsolete verb, sipo, to throw. We perhaps see its derivatives in siphon, prosapia and sept, and sepio, to inclose, may be primarily to repel, and thus to guard.]

  1. To scatter; to disperse; to drive asunder. Wind dissipates fog; the heat of the sun dissipates vapor; mirth dissipates care and anxiety; the cares of life tend to dissipate serious reflections. Scatter, disperse and dissipate are in many cases synonymous; but dissipate is used appropriately to denote the dispersion of things that vanish, or are not afterward collected; as, to dissipate fog, vapor or clouds. We say, an army is scattered or dispersed, but not dissipated. Trees are scattered or dispersed over a field, but not dissipated.
  2. To expend; to squander; to scatter property in a wasteful extravagance; to waste; to consume; as, a man has dissipated his fortune in the pursuit of pleasure.
  3. To scatter the attention.

DIS'SI-PA-TED, pp.

  1. Scattered; dispersed; wasted; consumed; squandered.
  2. adj. Loose; irregular; given to extravagance in the expenditure of property; devoted to pleasure and vice; as, a dissipated man; a dissipated life.

DIS'SI-PA-TING, ppr.

Scattering; dispersing; wasting; consuming; squandering; vanishing.

DIS-SI-PA'TION, n.

  1. The act of scattering; dispersion; the state of being dispersed; as, the dissipation of vapor or heat.
  2. In physics, the insensible loss or waste of the minute parts of a body, which fly off, by which means the body is diminished or consumed.
  3. Scattered attention; or that which diverts and calls off the mind from any subject. – Swift.
  4. A dissolute, irregular course of life; a wandering from object to object in pursuit of pleasure; a course of life usually attended with careless and exorbitant expenditures of money, and indulgence in vices, which impair or ruin both health and fortune. What! is it proposed then to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance, by filling his pockets with money? – P. Henry, Wirt's Sketches.