Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 59
Disavouch (v. t.) To disavow. [R.] -- Daniel.
Disavowed (imp. & p. p.) of Disavow.
Disavowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disavow.
Disavow (v. t.) 否認，推翻（前言）；拒絕接受 To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
A solemn promise made and disavowed. -- Dryden.
Disavow (v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. -- Ford.
Disavow (v.) Refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children" [ant: {avouch}, {avow}].
Disavowal (n.) 否認，否定；拒絕 The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.
An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. -- Richardson.
Disavowal (n.) Denial of any connection with or knowledge of [syn: {disavowal}, {disclaimer}].
Disavowance (n.) Disavowal. [Obs.] -- South.
Disavower (n.) One who disavows.
Disavowment (n.) Disavowal. [R.] -- Wotton.
Disbanded (imp. & p. p.) of Disband.
Disbanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disband.
Disband (v. t.) 解散；遣散 To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling. -- Knolles.
Disband (v. t.) To divorce. [Obs.]
And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded. -- Milton.
Disband (v. i.) 解散；遣散；散去 To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.
When both rocks and all things shall disband. -- Herbert.
Human society would in a short space disband. -- Tillotson.
Disband (v.) Cause to break up or cease to function; "the principal disbanded the political student organization."
Disband (v.) Stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting" [syn: disband, dissolve].
Disbandment (n.) The act of disbanding.
Disbandment (n.) The act of disbanding; "the orchestra faced the prospect of disbandment."
Disbarred (imp. & p. p.) of Disbar.
Disbarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbar.
Disbar (v. t.) (Law) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such. -- Abbott.
Disbar (v.) Remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred."
Disbark (v. t.) To disembark. -- Pope.
Disbark (v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark. [R.] -- Boyle.
Disbarment (n.) Act of disbarring.
Disbarment (n.) The act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law.
Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade. [Obs.]
Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself. -- B. Jonson.
Disbecome (v. t.) To misbecome. [Obs.] -- Massinger.
Disbelief (n.) The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. -- Tillotson.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. -- Carlyle.
Syn: Distrust; unbelief; incredulity; doubt; skepticism. -- Disbelief, Unbelief. Unbelief is a mere failure to admit; disbelief is a positive rejection. One may be an unbeliever in Christianity from ignorance or want of inquiry; a unbeliever has the proofs before him, and incurs the guilt of setting them aside. Unbelief is usually open to conviction; disbelief is already convinced as to the falsity of that which it rejects.
Men often tell a story in such a manner that we regard everything they say with unbelief. Familiarity with the worst parts of human nature often leads us into a disbelief in many good qualities which really exist among men.
Disbelief (n.) Doubt about the truth of something [syn: incredulity, disbelief, skepticism, mental rejection].
Disbelief (n.) A rejection of belief [syn: unbelief, disbelief] [ant: belief].
Disbelieved (imp. & p. p.) of Disbelieve.
Disbelieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disbelieve.
Disbelieve (v. t.) Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. -- J. S. Mill.
Disbelieve (v.) Reject as false; refuse to accept [syn: disbelieve, discredit] [ant: believe].
Disbeliever (n.) One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. -- I. Watts.
Disbench (v. t.) To drive from a bench or seat. [R.] -- Shak.
Disbench (v. t.) (Eng. Law) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges. -- Mozley & W.
Disbend (v. t.) To unbend. [Obs.] -- Stirling.
Disbind (v. t.) To unbind; to loosen. [Obs.] -- Mede.
Disblame (v. t.) To clear from blame. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Disbodied (a.) Disembodied. [R.]
Disboscation (n.) Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. -- Sir W. Scott.
Disbowel (v. t.) To disembowel. [R.] -- Spenser.
Disbranch (v. t.) To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. -- Shak.
Disbud (v. t.) (Hort.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.
Disbud (v.) Thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers.
Disbud (v.) Destroy undeveloped horn buds (of cattle).
Disburden (v. t.) To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.
He did it to disburden a conscience. -- Feltham.
My
mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. -- Hammond.
Syn: To unload; unburden; discharge; free.
Disburden (v. i.) To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind. -- Milton.
Disburden (v.) Take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey" [syn: unburden, disburden] [ant: burden, burthen, weight, weight down].
Disburgeon (v. t.) To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] -- Holland.
Disbursed (imp. & p. p.) of Disburse.
Disbursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburse.
Disburse (v. t.) 支付，支出，分配 To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. -- Macaulay.
{Disbursing officer}, 出納員；出納主管；支付官 An officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.
Disburse (v.) Expend, as from a fund [syn: {disburse}, {pay out}].
Disbursement (n.) 支付，支出；支付款 The act of disbursing or paying out.
The disbursement of the public moneys. -- U. S. Statutes.
Disbursement (n.) That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
Disbursement (n.) Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) [syn: {expense}, {disbursal}, {disbursement}].
Disbursement (n.) The act of spending or disbursing money [syn: {spending}, {disbursement}, {disbursal}, {outlay}].
Disbursement. () Literally, to take money out of a purse. Figuratively, to pay out money; to expend money; and sometimes it signifies to advance money.
Disbursement. () A master of a ship makes disbursements, whether with his own money or that of the owner, when he defrays expenses for the ship.
Disbursement. () An executor, guardian, trustee, or other accountant, is said to have made disbursements when he expended money on account of the estate which he holds. These, when properly made, are always allowed in the settlement of the accounts.
Disburser (n.) 支出者 One who disburses money.
Disburser (n.) Someone who spends money to purchase goods or services [syn: spender, disburser, expender].
Disburthened (imp. & p. p.) of Disburthen.
Disburthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburthen.
Disburthen (v. t.) To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]
Disc (n.) A flat round plate.
Disc (n.) (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.
Compare: Disk
Disk, (n.) [Written also disc.] A discus; a quoit.
Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. -- Pope.
Disk, (n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
Disk, (n.) (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
Disk, (n.) (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
Disk, (n.) (Bot.) The whole surface of a leaf.
Disk, (n.) (Bot.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.
Disk, (n.) (Bot.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
Disk (Zool.) The anterior surface or oral area of c[oe]lenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
Disk (Zool.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
Disk (Zool.) In owls, the space around the eyes.
Disk engine, A form of rotary steam engine.
Disk shell (Zool.), Any species of Discina.
Disc (n.) Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove [syn: phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc, platter].
Disc (n.) Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky" [syn: disk, disc, saucer].
Disc (n.) (Computer science) A memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored [syn: magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, disc].
Disc (n.) A flat circular plate [syn: disk, disc].
DISC, () Defense Information System Council (mil., USA)
Disc
Disc drive, () British spelling of "{disk", normally only used for "{compact disc."
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Discage (v. t.) To uncage. [R.] -- Tennyson.
Discal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.
Discalceate (v. t.) To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Discalceate (a.) (Used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals; "discalced friars" [syn: discalced, discalceate, unshod] [ant: calced, shod].
Discalceated (a.) Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.
Discalced (a.) Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced. "The foundation of houses of discalced friars." – Cardinal Manning's St. Teresa.
Discalced (a.) (Used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals; "discalced friars" [syn: discalced, discalceate, unshod] [ant: calced, shod].
Discalceation (n.) The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Discamp (v. t.) [See Decamp.] To drive from a camp. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Compare: Decamp
Decamp (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Decamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Decamping.] To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly. -- Macaulay.
Decamp (v. i.) Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.
The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. -- Goldsmith.
Decamp (v.) Leave a camp; "The hikers decamped before dawn" [syn: decamp, break camp].
Decamp (v.) Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" [syn: abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off].
Decamp (v.) Leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" [syn: decamp, skip, vamoose].
Discandy (v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. [Obs.]
Discant (n.) See Descant, n.
Discant (n.) A decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody [syn: descant, discant].
Discapacitate (v. t.) To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [R.]
Discard (v. i.) (Card Playing) 【牌】去牌；墊牌 To make a discard.
Discard (n.) (Card Playing) 拋棄，丟棄 [U] The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Discarded (imp. & p. p.) of Discard.
Discarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discard.
Discard (v. t.) (Card Playing) 拋棄，摒棄，丟棄；【牌】擲出（無用的牌）；墊出（另一花色牌張） To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
Discard (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. -- Swift.
Discard (v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.
A man discards the follies of boyhood. -- I. Taylor.
Syn: To dismiss; displace; discharge; cashier.
Discard (n.) Anything that is cast aside or discarded.
Discard (n.) (Cards) The act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit.
Discard (n.) Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable [syn: discard, throwing away].
Discard (v.) Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away].
Discardure (n.) Rejection; dismissal. [R.] -- Hayter.
Discarnate (a.) Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." -- Glanvill.
Discase (v. t.) To strip; to undress. -- Shak.
Discase (v.) Get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment, tog].
Discede (v. i.) To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.]
I dare not discede from my copy a tittle. -- Fuller.
Discept (v. i.) To debate; to discuss. [R.]
One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished. -- R. Browning.
Disceptation (n.) Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic]
Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. -- Strype.
Disceptation (n.) A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [syn: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing].
Disceptator (n.) [L.] One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] -- Cowley.
Discerned (imp. & p. p.) of Discern.
Discerning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discern.
Discern (v. t.) [W] 分辨，識別；看出，察覺到 [+that] [+wh-]； 認識，領悟 To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. -- Boyle.
A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Discern (v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. -- Prov. vii. 7.
Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. -- Beattie.
I wake, and I discern the truth. -- Tennyson.
Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See {Perceive}.
Discern (v. i.) 辨明，分清 [W] To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. -- Jonah iv. 11.
Discern (v. i.) To make cognizance. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Discern (v.) Detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn: {spot}, {recognize}, {recognise}, {distinguish}, {discern}, {pick out}, {make out}, {tell apart}].
Discernance (n.) Discernment. [Obs.]
Discerner (n.) One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.
A great observer and discerner of men's natures. -- Clarendon.
Discernible (a.) 可識別的 Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.
The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Perceptible; distinguishable; apparent; visible; evident; manifest.
Discernible (a.) Perceptible by the senses or intellect; "things happen in the earth and sky with no discernible cause"; "the newspaper reports no discernible progress in the negotiations"; "the skyline is easily discernible even at a distance of several miles" [syn: {discernible}, {discernable}] [ant: {indiscernible}].
Discernible (a.) Capable of being perceived clearly; "an essay with a meaning that was not always discernible."
Discernible (a.) Capable of being seen or noticed; "a discernible change in attitude"; "a clearly evident erasure in the manuscript"; "an observable change in behavior" [syn: {discernible}, {evident}, {observable}].
Discernibleness (n.) The quality of being discernible.
Discernibly (adv.) In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.
Discerning (a.) 有識別力的；眼光敏銳的；discern 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. -- Macaulay.
Discerning (a.) Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" [ant: {undiscerning}].
Discerning (a.) Unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: {discerning}, {discreet}].
Discerning (a.) Quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {apprehensive}, {discerning}].
Discerning (a.) Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color."
Discerningly (adv.) In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. -- Garth.
Discernment (n.) [U] 洞察；識別；洞察力；識別能力；敏銳 The act of discerning.
Discernment (n.) The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.
Syn: Judgment; acuteness; discrimination; penetration; sagacity; insight. -- {Discernment}, {Penetration}, {Discrimination}. Discernment is keenness and accuracy of mental vision; penetration is the power of seeing deeply into a subject in spite of everything that intercepts the view; discrimination is a capacity of tracing out minute distinctions and the nicest shades of thought. A discerning man is not easily misled; one of a penetrating mind sees a multitude of things which escape others; a discriminating judgment detects the slightest differences.
Discernment (n.) The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: {understanding}, {apprehension}, {discernment}, {savvy}].
Discernment (n.) Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" [syn: {taste}, {appreciation}, {discernment}, {perceptiveness}].
Discernment (n.) Perception of that which is obscure [syn: {discernment}, {perceptiveness}].
Discernment (n.) The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations [syn: {sagacity}, {sagaciousness}, {judgment}, {judgement}, {discernment}].
Discernment (n.) The trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment" [syn: {discretion}, {discernment}].
Discerp (v. t.) 扯碎 To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] -- Stukeley.
Discerp (v. t.) To separate; to disunite. [R.] -- Bp. Hurd. Discerpibility.
Discerp (v.) Divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war" [syn: {dismember}, {take apart}, {discerp}].
Discerp (v.) Cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: {discerp}, {sever}, {lop}].
Discerpibility (n.) Alt. of Discerptibility.
Discerptibility (n.) Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] -- Wollaston. Discerpible
Discerpible (a.) Alt. of Discerptible.
Discerptible (a.) 可撕碎的 Capable of being discerped. [R.]
Discerption (n.) 分裂 The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts. -- Bp. Hall.
Discerptive (a.) Tending to separate or disunite parts. -- Encys.Dict.
Discession (n.) Departure. [Obs.]