Dictionary: DIS-TAST'ED – DIS-TERM-IN-A'TION

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DIS-TAST'ED, pp.

Disrelished; disliked; offended; displeased.

DIS-TASTE'FUL, a.

  1. Nauseous; unpleasant or disgusting to the taste.
  2. Offensive; displeasing; as, a distasteful truth. – Dryden.
  3. Malevolent; as, distasteful looks. – Shak.

DIS-TASTE'FUL-LY, adv.

In a displeasing or offensive manner.

DIS-TASTE'FUL-NESS, n.

Disagreeableness; dislike. – Whitlock.

DIS-TAST'ING, ppr.

Disrelishing; disliking; offending; displeasing.

DIS-TAST'IVE, n.

That which gives disrelish or aversion. – Whitlock.

DIS-TEM'PER, n. [dis and temper.]

  1. Literally, an undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Hence,
  2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body, or of any part of it; a state in which the animal economy is deranged or imperfectly carried on. [See Disease.] It is used of the slighter diseases, but not exclusively. In general, it is synonymous with disease, and is particularly applied to the diseases of brutes.
  3. Want of due temperature, applied to climate; the literal sense of the word, but not now used. Countries under the tropic of a distemper uninhabitable. – Ralegh.
  4. Bad constitution of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite. – Shak.
  5. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles; as, the temper and distemper of an empire consist of contraries. [Not now used.] – Bacon.
  6. Ill humor of mind; depravity of inclination. [Not used.] – King Charles.
  7. Political disorder; tumult. – Waller.
  8. Uneasiness; ill humor or bad temper. There is a sickness, / Which puts some of us in distemper. – Shak.
  9. In painting, the mixing of colors with something besides oil and water. When colors are mixed with size, whites of eggs, or other unctuous or glutinous matter, and not with oil, it is said to be done in distemper.

DIS-TEM'PER, v.t.

  1. To disease; to disorder; to derange the functions of the body or mind. – Shak. Boyle.
  2. To disturb; to ruffle. – Dryden.
  3. To deprive of temper or moderation. – Dryden.
  4. To make disaffected, ill humored, or malignant. – Shak. [This verb is seldom used, except in the participles.]

DIS-TEM'PER-ANCE, n.

Distemperature.

DIS-TEM'PER-ATE, a.

Immoderate. [Little used.] – Ralegh.

DIS-TEM'PER-A-TURE, n.

  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a noxious state; as, the distemperature of the air or climate.
  2. Violent tumultuousness; outrageousness. – Johnson.
  3. Perturbation of mind. – Shak.
  4. Confusion; commixture of contrarieties; loss of regularity; disorder. – Shak.
  5. Slight illness; indisposition. – Brewer.

DIS-TEM'PER-ED, pp. [or a.]

  1. Diseased in body, or disordered in mind. We speak of a distempered body, a distempered limb, a distempered head or brain.
  2. Disturbed; ruffled; as, distempered passions.
  3. Deprived of temper or moderation; immoderate; as, distempered zeal. – Dryden.
  4. Disordered; biased; prejudiced; perverted; as, mind distempered by interest or passion. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of disordered faculties. – Buckminster.
  5. Disaffected; made malevolent. Distempered lords. – Shak.

DIS-TEM'PER-ING, ppr.

Affecting with disease or disorder; disturbing; depriving of moderation.

DIS-TEND', v.t. [L. distendo; dis and tendo, to tend, to stretch, from the root of teneo, to hold, Gr. τεινω, to stretch. Class Dn.]

  1. To stretch or spread in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge; to expand; to swell; as, to distend a bladder; to distend the bowels; to distend the lungs. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]
  2. To spread apart; to divaricate; as, to distend the legs. We seldom say, to distend a plate of metal, and never, I believe, to distend a line; extend being used in both cases. We use distend chiefly to denote the stretching, spreading or expansion of any thing, by means of a substance inclosed within it, or by the elastic force of something inclosed. In this case, the body distended swells or spreads in all directions, and usually in a spherical form. A bladder is distended by inflation, or by the expansion of rarefied air within it. The skin is distended in boils and abscesses, by matter generated within them. This appropriation of the word has not always been observed.

DIS-TEND'ED, pp.

Spread; expanded; dilated by an inclosed substance or force.

DIS-TEND'ING, ppr.

Stretching in all directions; dilating; expanding.

DIS-TEN-SI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality or capacity of being distensible.

DIS-TEN'SI-BLE, a.

Capable of being distended or dilated.

DIS-TEN'SION, n.

The act of stretching. [See Distention.]

DIS-TENT', a.

Spread. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

DIS-TENT', n.

Breadth. [Not used.] – Wotton.

DIS-TEN'TION, n. [L. distentio.]

  1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being distended; as, the distention of the lungs or bowels.
  2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
  3. An opening, spreading or divarication; as, the distention of the legs.

DIS-TER', v.t. [L. dis and terra.]

To banish from a country. [Not used.]

DIS-TERM'IN-ATE, a. [L. disterminatus.]

Separated by bounds. [Obs.] – Hale.

DIS-TERM-IN-A'TION, n.

Separation. [Obs.] – Hammond.