Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-EASE', v.t. [dize'ze.]

1. To interrupt or impair any or all the natural and regular functions of the several organs of a living body; afflict with pain or sickness; to make morbid; used chiefly in the passive participle, as a diseased body, a diseased stomach; but diseased may here be considered as an adjective.
2. To interrupt or render imperfect the regular functions of the brain, or of the intellect; to disorder; to derange.
3. To infect; to communicate disease to, by contagion.
4. To pain; to make uneasy. – Locke.