Webster's Dictionary 1913

4267

Disinvestiture

Dis′in‐ves″ti‐ture (?; 135), n. The act of depriving of investiture. Ogilvie.

4268

Disinvigorate

Dis′in‐vig″or‐ate (?), v. t. To enervate; to weaken. Sydney Smith.

4269

Disinvolve

Dis′in‐volve″ (?), v. t. To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. Dr. H. More.

4270

Disjection

Dis‐jec″tion (?), n. [L. disjicere, disjectum, to throw asunder, disperse; dis- + jacere to throw.] Destruction; dispersion. Bp. Horsley.

4271

Disjoin

Dis‐join″ (dĭs‐join″), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disjoined (–joind″); p. pr. & vb. n.Disjoining.] [OF. desjoindre, F. disjoindre, déjoindre, fr. L. disjungere; dis- + jungere to join. ...

4272

Disjoin (2)

Dis‐join″, v. i. To become separated; to part.

4273

Disjoint

Dis‐joint″ (?), a. [OF. desjoint, p. p. of desjoindre. See Disjoin.] Disjointed; unconnected; — opposed to conjoint. Milton.

4274

Disjoint (2)

Dis‐joint″, n. [From OF. desjoint, p. p. of desjoindre. See Disjoint, v. t.] Difficult situation; dilemma; strait. “I stand in such disjoint.” Chaucer.

4275

Disjoint (3)

Dis‐joint″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disjointed; p. pr. & vb. n.Disjointing.] 1. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out o...

4276

Disjoint (4)

Dis‐joint″, v. i. To fall in pieces. Shak.

4277

Disjointed

Dis‐joint″ed, a. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. — Dis‐joint″ed‐ly, adv. — Dis‐joint″ed‐ness, n.

4278

Disjointly

Dis‐joint″ly, adv. In a disjointed state. Sandys.

4279

Disjudication

Dis‐ju′di‐ca″tion (?), n. Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. Boyle.

4280

Disjunct

Dis‐junct″ (dĭs‐jŭṉkt″), a. [L. disjunctus, p. p. of disjungere to disjoin. See Disjoin, and cf. Disjoint.] 1. Disjoined; separated.2. (Zoöl.) Having the head, thorax, and abdom...

4281

Disjunction

Dis‐junc″tion (?), n. [L. disjunctio.] 1. The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.2. A disjunctive proposition. Coleridge.

4282

Disjunctive

Dis‐junc″tive (?), a. [L. disjunctivus: cf. F. disjonctif.] 1. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.2. (Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. “Disjunctive notes.” Moor...

4283

Disjunctive (2)

Dis‐junc″tive, n. (a) (Gram.) A disjunctive conjunction. (b) (Logic) A disjunctive proposition.

4284

Disjunctively

Dis‐junc″tive‐ly, adv. In a disjunctive manner; separately. Dr. H. More.

4285

Disjuncture

Dis‐junc″ture (?; 135), n. The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation. Fuller.

4286

Disk

Disk (dĭsk), n. [L. discus, Gr. δίσκοσ. See Dish.] [Written also disc.] 1. A discus; a quoit.Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. Pope.2. A flat, circular plate; as, ...

4287

Disk clutch

Disk clutch. (Engin.) A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.

4288

Diskindness

Dis‐kind″ness (?), n. Unkindness; disservice. A. Tucker.

4289

Diskless

Disk″less (?), a. Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

4290

Dislade

Dis‐lade″ (?), v. t. To unlade. Heywood.

4291

Disleal

Dis‐leal″ (?), a. [See Disloyal, Leal.] Disloyal; perfidious. “Disleal knight.” Spenser.

4292

Disleave

Dis‐leave″ (?), v. t. To deprive of leaves.The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

4293

Dislike

Dis‐like″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disliked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disliking.] 1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.Every nation dislikes an impost. Jo...