Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-TIN'GUISH-ER – DIS-TRAIN'ED
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DIS-TIN'GUISH-ER, n.
- He or that which distinguishes, or that separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. – Brown.
- One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer. Dryden.
DIS-TIN'GUISH-ING, ppr.
- Separating from others by a note of diversity; ascertaining difference by a mark.
- Ascertaining, knowing, or perceiving a difference.
- adj. Constituting difference, or distinction from every thing else; peculiar; as, the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity.
DIS-TIN'GUISH-ING-LY, adv.
With distinction; with some mark of preference. – Pope.
Distinction; observation of difference. – Graunt.
DIS-TI'TLE, v.t.
To deprive of right. – B. Jonson.
DIS-TI'TLED, pp.
Deprived of right.
DIS-TI'TLING, ppr.
Depriving of right.
DIS-TORT', a.
Distorted. – Spenser.
DIS-TORT', v.t. [L. distortus, distorqueo; dis and torqueo, to twist, Fr. tordre, Sp. torcer.]
- To twist out of natural or regular shape; as, to distort the neck, the limbs, or the body; to distort the features.
- To force or put out of the true posture or direction. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge distort the understanding. – Tillotson.
- To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
DIS-TORT'ED, pp.
Twisted out of natural or regular shape; wrested; perverted.
DIS-TORT'ING, ppr.
Twisting out of shape; wresting; perverting.
DIS-TOR'TION, n. [L. distortio.]
- The act of distorting or wresting; a twisting out of regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
- The state of being twisted out of shape; deviation from natural shape or position; crookedness; grimace.
- A perversion of the true meaning of words.
DIS-TRACT', a.
Mad. [Not in use.]
DIS-TRACT', v.t. [L. distractus, distraho; dis and traho, to draw. See Draw and Drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.]
- Literally, to draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate. Hence, to divide; to separate; and hence, to throw into confusion. Sometimes in a literal sense. Contradictory or mistaken orders may distract an army.
- To turn or draw from any object; to divert from any point, toward another point, or toward various other objects; as, to distract the eye or the attention. If he can not avoid the eye of the observer, he hopes to distract it by a multiplicity of the object. – South.
- To draw toward different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; as, to distract the mind with cares; you distract me with your clamor. While I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted. – Ps. lxxxviii.
- To disorder the reason; to derange the regular operations of intellect; to render raving or furious; most frequently used in the participle distracted.
DIS-TRACT'ED, pp.
- Drawn apart; drawn in different directions; diverted from its object; perplexed; harassed; confounded.
- adj. Deranged; disordered in intellect; raving; furious; mad; frantic. – Locke.
DIS-TRACT'ED-LY, adv.
Madly; furiously; wildly. – Shak.
A state of being mad; madness. – Bp. Hall.
DIS-TRACT'ER, n.
One who distracts. – More.
DIS-TRACT'ING, ppr.
Drawing apart; separating; diverting from an object; perplexing; harassing; disordering the intellect.
DIS-TRAC'TION, n. [L. distractio.]
- The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
- Confusion from multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; as, the family was in a state of distraction. [See 1 Cor. vii.]
- Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions. Never was known a night of such distraction. – Dryden.
- Madness; a state of disordered reason; franticness; furiousness. [We usually apply this word to a state of derangement which produces raving and violence in the patient.]
- Folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity. On the supposition of the truth of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, irreligion is nothing better than distraction. – Buckminster.
DIS-TRACT'IVE, a.
Causing perplexity; as, distractive cares. – Dryden.
DIS-TRAIN', v.i.
To make seizure of goods. On whom I can not distrain for debt. – Camden. For neglecting to do suit to the lord's court, or other personal service, the lord may distrain of common right. Blackstone. [In this phrase, however, some word seems to be understood; as, to distrain goods.]
DIS-TRAIN', v.t. [L. distringo; dis and stringo. See Strain. Blackstone writes distrein.]
- To seize for debt; to take a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the possession of the injured party, to satisfy a demand, or compel the performance of a duty; as, to distrain goods for rent, or for an amercement.
- To rend; to tear. [Obs.] – Spenser.
DIS-TRAIN'A-BLE, a.
That is liable to be taken for distress. – Blackstone.
DIS-TRAIN'ED, pp.
Seized for debt or to compel the performance of duty.