Webster's Dictionary 1913

4537

Disprison

Dis‐pris″on (?), v. t. To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. Bulwer.

4538

Disprivilege

Dis‐priv″i‐lege (?), v. t. To deprive of a privilege or privileges.

4539

Disprize

Dis‐prize″ (?), v. t. [Cf. Dispraise.] To depreciate. Cotton (Ode to Lydia).

4540

Disprofess

Dis′pro‐fess″ (?), v. t. To renounce the profession or pursuit of.His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.

4541

Disprofit

Dis‐prof″it (?), n. Loss; damage. Foxe.

4542

Disprofit (2)

Dis‐prof″it, v. i. & i. To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. Bale.

4543

Disprofitable

Dis‐prof″it‐a‐ble (?), a. Unprofitable.

4544

Disproof

Dis‐proof″ (?), n. [Pref. dis- + proof. Cf. Disprove.] A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.I need not o...

4545

Disproperty

Dis‐prop″er‐ty (?), v. t. To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. Shak.

4546

Disproportion

Dis′pro‐por″tion (?), n. [Pref. dis- + proportion: cf. F. disproportion.] 1. Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the...

4547

Disproportion (2)

Dis′pro‐por″tion, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disproportioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disproportioning.] To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; t...

4548

Disproportionable

Dis′pro‐por″tion‐a‐ble (?), a. Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. — Dis′pro‐por″tion‐a‐ble‐ness, n.Hammond. — Dis′...

4549

Disproportional

Dis′pro‐por″tion‐al (?), a. Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; ...

4550

Disproportionality

Dis′pro‐por′tion‐al″i‐ty (?), n. The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.

4551

Disproportionally

Dis′pro‐por″tion‐al‐ly, adv. In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.

4552

Disproportionate

Dis′pro‐por″tion‐ate (?), a. Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body ...

4553

Dispropriate

Dis‐pro″pri‐ate (?), v. t. [L. dis- + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper.] To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

4554

Disprovable

Dis‐prov″a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being disproved or refuted. Boyle.

4555

Disproval

Dis‐prov″al (?), n. Act of disproving; disproof.

4556

Disprove

Dis‐prove″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disproved (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disproving.] [Pref. dis- + prove: cf. OF. desprover.] 1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refut...

4557

Disprover

Dis‐prov″er (?), n. One who disproves or confutes.

4558

Disprovide

Dis′pro‐vide″ (?), v. t. Not to provide; to fail to provide. Boyle.

4559

Dispunct

Dis‐punct″ (?), a. Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous.That were dispunct to the ladies. B. Jonson.

4560

Dispunct (2)

Dis‐punct″, v. t. [See 1st Dispunge.] To expunge. Foxe.

4561

Dispunge

Dis‐punge″ (?), v. t. [L. dispungere to prick apart, i.e., check off the debts and credits of an account; dis- + pungere to prick.] To expunge; to erase.

4562

Dispunge (2)

Dis‐punge″, v. t. See Disponge.

4563

Dispunishable

Dis‐pun″ish‐a‐ble (?), a. Without penal restraint; not punishable. Swift.