Webster's Dictionary 1913

4699

Disseverance

Dis‐sev″er‐ance (?), n. [OF. dessevrance.] The act of disserving; separation.

4700

Disseveration

Dis‐sev′er‐a″tion (?), n. The act of disserving; disseverance.

4701

Disseverment

Dis‐sev″er‐ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. dessevrement.] Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.

4702

Disshadow

Dis‐shad″ow (?), v. t. To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.

4703

Dissheathe

Dis‐sheathe″ (?), v. i. To become unsheathed. Sir W. Raleigh.

4704

Disship

Dis‐ship″ (?), v. t. To dismiss from service on board ship. Hakluyt.

4705

Disshiver

Dis‐shiv″er (?), v. t. & i. To shiver or break in pieces.

4706

Dissidence

Dis″si‐dence (?), n. [L. dissidentia: cf. F. dissidence. See Dissident, a.] Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. I. Taylor.It is the dissidence of di...

4707

Dissident

Dis″si‐dent (?), a. [L. dissidens, -entis, p. pr. of dissidere to sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See Sit.] No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; ...

4708

Dissident (2)

Dis″si‐dent, n.(Eccl.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc� as a laudab...

4709

Dissidently

Dis″si‐dent‐ly, adv. In a dissident manner.

4710

Dissilience

{ Dis‐sil″i‐ence (?; 106), Dis‐sil″i‐en‐cy (?), } n. The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.

4711

Dissilient

Dis‐sil″i‐ent (?), a. [L. dissiliens, -entis, p. pr. of dissilire to leap asunder: dis- + salire to leap.] Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscin...

4712

Dissilition

Dis′si‐li″tion (?), n. The act of bursting or springing apart. Boyle.

4713

Dissimilar

Dis‐sim″i‐lar (?), a. [Pref. dis- + similar: cf. F. dissimilaire.] Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.This part very ...

4714

Dissimilarity

Dis‐sim′i‐lar″i‐ty (?), n. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.

4715

Dissimilarly

Dis‐sim″i‐lar‐ly (?), adv. In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.

4716

Dissimilate

Dis‐sim″i‐late (?), v. t. To render dissimilar.

4717

Dissimilation

Dis‐sim′i‐la″tion (?), n. The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.

4718

Dissimile

Dis‐sim″i‐le (?), n. [L. dissimile, neut. of dissimilis unlike.] (Rhet.) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

4719

Dissimilitude

Dis′si‐mil″i‐tude (?), n. [L. dissimilitudo, fr. dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.] 1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.Dissimilitude between the Divinity and imag...

4720

Dissimulate

Dis‐sim″u‐late (?), a. [L. dissimulatus, p. p. of dissimulare. See Dissemble.] Feigning; simulating; pretending. Henryson.

4721

Dissimulate (2)

Dis‐sim″u‐late (?), v. i. To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

4722

Dissimulation

Dis‐sim′u‐la″tion (?), n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocris...

4723

Dissimulator

Dis‐sim″u‐la′tor (?), n. One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

4724

Dissimule

Dis‐sim″ule (?), v. t. & i. [F. dissimuler. See Dissimulate.] To dissemble. Chaucer.

4725

Dissimuler

Dis‐sim″u‐ler (?), n. A dissembler.