Dictionary: DIS-TRAIN'ING – DIS'TRICT-COURT

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DIS-TRAIN'ING, ppr.

Seizing for debt, or for neglect of suit and service.

DIS-TRAIN'OR, n.

He who seizes goods for debt or service. – Blackstone.

DIS-TRAUGHT', a. [Obs. See DISTRACT.]

DIS-TREAM', v.i. [dis and stream.]

To spread or flow over. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.

DIS-TRESS', n. [Fr. detresse; Norm. id.; from the Celtic, W. trais, violence, treisiaw, to strain or force. See Stress.]

  1. The act of distraining; the taking of any personal chattel from a wrong-doer, to answer a demand, or procure satisfaction for a wrong committed. – Blackstone.
  2. The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. A distress of household goods shall be impounded under cover. If the lessor does not find sufficient distress on the premises, &c. – Blackstone.
  3. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer great distress from the gout, or from the loss of near friends.
  4. Affliction; calamity; misery. On earth distress of nations. – Luke xxi.
  5. A state of danger; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, or want of provisions or water, &c.

DIS-TRESS', v.t.

  1. To pain; to afflict with pain or anguish; applied to the body or the mind. Literally, to press or strain.
  2. To afflict greatly; to harass; to oppress with calamity; to make miserable. Distress not the Moabites. – Deut. ii. We are troubled on every side, but not distressed. – 2 Cor. iv.
  3. To compel by pain or suffering. There are men who can neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of duty. – Federalist, Hamilton.

DIS-TRESS'ED, pp.

Suffering great pain or torture; severely afflicted; harassed; oppressed with calamity or misfortune.

DIS-TRESS'ED-NESS, n.

A state of being greatly pained. – Scott.

DIS-TRESS'FUL, a.

  1. Inflicting or bringing distress; as, a distressful stroke. – Shak.
  2. Indicating distress; proceeding from pain or anguish; as, distressful cries. – Pope.
  3. Calamitous; as, a distressful event. – Watts.
  4. Attended with poverty; as, distressful bread. – Shak.

DIS-TRESS'FUL-LY, adv.

In a painful manner.

DIS-TRESS'ING, ppr.

  1. Giving severe pain; oppressing with affliction.
  2. adj. Very afflicting; affecting with severe pain; as, a distressing sickness.

DIS-TRESS'ING-LY, adv.

With extreme pain.

DIS-TRIB'U-TA-BLE, a. [See Distribute.]

That may be distributed; that may be assigned in portions. – Ramsay.

DIS-TRIB'UTE, v.t. [L. distribuo; dis and tribuo, to give or divide.]

  1. To divide among two or more; to deal; to give or bestow in parts or portions. Moses distributed lands to the tribes of Israel. Christ distributed the loaves to his disciples.
  2. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
  3. To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds or species.
  4. To give in charity. Distributing to the necessities of the saints. – Rom. xii.
  5. In printing, to separate types, and place them in their proper cells in the cases.

DIS-TRIB'U-TED, pp.

Divided among a number; dealt out; assigned in portions; separated; bestowed.

DIS-TRIB'U-TER, n.

One who divides or deals out in parts; one who bestows in portions; a dispenser.

DIS-TRIB'U-TING, ppr.

Dividing among a number; dealing out; dispensing.

DIS-TRI-BU'TION, n. [L. distributio.]

  1. The act of dividing among a number; a dealing in parts or portions; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
  2. The act of giving in charity; a bestowing in parts. – Bacon. Atterbury.
  3. Dispensation; administration to numbers; a rendering to individuals; as, the distribution of justice.
  4. The act of separating into distinct parts or classes; as, the distribution of plants into genera and species.
  5. In architecture, the dividing and disposing of the several parts of the building, according to some plan, or to the rules of the art.
  6. In rhetoric, a division and enumeration of the several qualities of a subject.
  7. In general, the division and disposition of the parts of any thing.
  8. In printing, the taking a form apart; the separating of the types, and placing each letter in its proper cell in the cases.

DIS-TRIB'U-TIVE, a.

  1. That distributes; that divides and assigns in portions; that deals to each his proper share; as, distributive justice.
  2. That assigns the various species of a general term.
  3. That separates or divides; as, a distributive adjective.

DIS-TRIB'U-TIVE, n.

In grammar, a word that divides or distributes, as such and every, which represent the individuals of a collective number as separate.

DIS-TRIB'U-TIVE-LY, adv.

By distribution; singly; not collectively. – Hooker. Watts.

DIS-TRIB'U-TIVE-NESS, n.

Desire of distributing. [Little used.] – Fell.

DIS'TRICT, n. [L. districtus, from distringo, to press hard, to bind; It. distretto. See Distrain.]

  1. Properly, a limited extent of country; a circuit within which power, right or authority may be exercised, and to which it is restrained; a word applicable to any portion of land or country, or to any part of a city or town, which is defined by law or agreement. A governor, a prefect, or a judge may have his district. Some of the states are divided into districts for the choice of senators, representatives or electors. Cities and towns are divided into districts for various purposes, as for schools, &c. The United States are divided into districts for the collection of the revenue.
  2. A region; a territory within given lines; as, the district of the earth which lies between the tropics, or that which is north of a polar circle.
  3. A region; a country; a portion of territory without very definite limits; as, the districts of Russia covered by forest.

DIS'TRICT, v.t.

To divide into districts or limited portions of territory. Legislatures district states for the choice of senators. In New England, towns are districted for the purpose of establishing and managing schools.

DIS'TRICT-COURT, n.

A court which has cognizance of certain causes within a district defined by law. The district-courts of the United States are courts of subordinate jurisdiction.