Webster's Dictionary 1913

3889

Discontentful

Dis′con‐tent″ful (?), a. Full of discontent.

3890

Discontenting

Dis′con‐tent″ing, a. 1. Discontented. Shak.2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.

3891

Discontentive

Dis′con‐tent″ive (?), a. Relating or tending to discontent. “Pride is ever discontentive.” Feltham.

3892

Discontentment

Dis′con‐tent″ment (?), n. The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.

3893

Discontinuable

Dis′con‐tin″u‐a‐ble (?), a. Admitting of being discontinued.

3894

Discontinuance

Dis′con‐tin″u‐ance (?), n. 1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as...

3895

Discontinuation

Dis′con‐tin′u‐a″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. discontinuation.] Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.Upon any discontinuation o...

3896

Discontinue

Dis′con‐tin″ue (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Discontinued (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Discontinuing.] [Cf. F. discontinuer.] To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or hab...

3897

Discontinue (2)

Dis′con‐tin″ue, v. i. 1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.2. To be separated or severed; to part.Thyself shalt discontinue from thin...

3898

Discontinuee

Dis′con‐tin′u‐ee″ (?), n.(Law) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

3899

Discontinuer

Dis′con‐tin″u‐er (?), n. One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller.

3900

Discontinuity

Dis‐con′ti‐nu″i‐ty (?), n. Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. “Discontinuity of surface.” Boyle.

3901

Discontinuor

Dis′con‐tin″u‐or (?), n.(Law) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

3902

Discontinuous

Dis′con‐tin″u‐ous (?), a. 1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.2. Exhib...

3903

Disconvenience

Dis′con‐ven″ience (?), n. Unsuitableness; incongruity. Bacon.

3904

Disconvenient

Dis′con‐ven″ient (?), a. Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. Bp. Reynolds.

3905

Discophora

‖Dis‐coph″o‐ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � disk + � to bear.] (Zoöl.) A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species. — Dis‐coph″o‐rous (#), a.

3906

Discord

Dis″cord′ (?), n. [OE. discord, descord, OF. discorde, descorde, F. discorde, from L. discordia, fr. discors, -cordis, discordant, disagreeable; dis- + cor, cordis, heart; cf. F...

3907

Discord (2)

Dis‐cord″ (?), v. i. [OE. discorden, descorden, from the French. See Discord, n.] To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.The one discording with the other....

3908

Discordable

Dis‐cord″a‐ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. descordable.] That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.

3909

Discordance

{ Dis‐cord″ance (?), Dis‐cord″an‐cy (?), } n. [Cf. F. discordance.] State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.There will arise a thousand discordances of...

3910

Discordant

Dis‐cord″ant (?), a. [OE. discordant, descordaunt, OF. descordant, discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. See Discord, n.] 1. Disagreeing; incongru...

3911

Discordful

Dis‐cord″ful (?), a. Full of discord; contentious. “His discordful dame.” Spenser.

3912

Discordous

Dis‐cord″ous (?), a. Full of discord.

3913

Discorporate

Dis‐cor″po‐rate (?), a. Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. Jas. II.

3914

Discorrespondent

Dis‐cor′re‐spond″ent (?), a. Incongruous. W. Montagu.

3915

Discost

Dis‐cost″ (?), v. i. Same as Discoast.