Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-AL-LOW', v.t. [dis and allow.]

1. To refuse permission, or not to permit; not to grant; not to make or suppose lawful; not to authorize; to disprove. God disallows that Christians should conform to the immoral practices of the world. A good man disallows every kind of profaneness.
2. To testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent. But if her father shall disallow her in the day that he heareth, not any of her vows or her bonds … shall stand. – Num. xxx.
3. Not to approve; not to receive; to reject. To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious. – 1 Pet. ii.
4. Not to allow or admit as just; to reject; as, to disallow an account or charge.