Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 62
Discontinuance (n.) (Law) 中止；廢止；撤銷（訴訟） That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. -- Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.
Syn: Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break.
Discontinuance (n.) The act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) [syn: discontinuance, discontinuation] [ant: continuance, continuation].
Discontinuance, pleading. A chasm or interruption in the pleading.
Discontinuance, It is a rule, that every pleading, must be an answer to the whole of what is adversely alleged. Com. Dig. Pleader, E 1, ri 4; 1 Saund. 28, n. 3; 4 Rep. 62, a. If, therefore, in an action of trespass for breaking a close, and cutting three hundred trees, the defendant pleads as to cutting all but two hundred trees, some matter of justification or title, and as to the two hundred trees says nothing, the plaintiff is entitled to sign judgment, as by nil dicit against him, in respect of the two hundred trees, and to demur, or reply to the plea, as to the remainder of the trespasses. On the other hand, if he demurs or replies to the plea, without signing, judgment for the part not answered, the whole action is said to be discontinued. For the plea, if taken by the plaintiff as an answer to the, whole action, it being, in fact, a partial answer only, is, in contemplation of law, a mere nullity, and a discontinuance takes place. And such discontinuance will amount to error on the record; such error is cured, however, after verdict, by the statute of Jeo fails, 32 H. VIII. c. 80; and after judgment by nil dicit, confession, or non sum informatus, by stat. 4 Ann. c. 16. It is to be observed, that as to the plaintiff's course of proceeding, there is a distinction between a case like this, where the defendant does not profess to answer the whole, and a case where, by the commencement of his plea, he professes to do so, but, in fact, gives a defective and partial answer, applying to part only. The latter case amounts merely to insufficient pleading, and the plaintiff's course, therefore, is not to sign judgment for the part defectively answered, but to demur to the whole plea. 1 Saund. 28, n.
Discontinuance, It is to be observed, also, that where the part of pleading to which no answer is given, is immaterial, or such as requires no separate or specific answer for example, if it be mere matter of allegation, the rule does not in that case apply. Id. See Com. Dig. Pleader, W; Bac. Abr. Pleas, P.
Discontinuance, estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter.
Discontinuance, The term discontinuance is used to distinguish those cases where the party whose freehold is ousted, can restore it only by action, from those in which he ma restore it by entry. Co. Litt. 325 a 3 Bl. Com. 171; Ad. Ej. 35 to 41; Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; Cruise's Dig. Index, b.. t..5 2 Saund. Index, h.t.
Discontinuance, practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought. 3 Bl. Com. 296. See Continuance. A discontinuance, also, is an entry upon the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.
Discontinuance, The plaintiff cannot discontinue his action after a demurrer joined and entered, or after a verdict or a writ of inquiry without leave of court. Cro. Jac. 35 1, Lilly's Abr. 473; 6 Watts & Serg. 1417. The plaintiff is, on discontinuance, generally liable for costs. But in some cases, he is not so liable. See 3 Johns. R. 249; 1 Caines' R. 116; 1 Johns. R. 143; 6 Johns. R. 333; 18 Johns. R. 252; 2 Caines' Rep. 380; Com. Dig. Pleader, W 5; Bac. Abr. Pleas' P.
Discontinuation (n.) Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Discontinued (imp. & p. p.) of Discontinue
Discontinuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discontinue
Discontinue (v. t.) To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Discontinue (v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.
Discontinuee (n.) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
Discontinuity (n.) Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
Discontinuous (a.) Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
Discontinuous (a.) Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
Disconvenience (n.) Unsuitableness; incongruity.
Disconvenient (a.) Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
Discophile (n.) 唱片收集（研究）家 One who studies and collects phonograph records or CDs.
Discophora (n. pl.) A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.
Discord (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
Discord (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
Discord (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
Discord (n.) (Disagreement) [ U ] (Formal) 看法不一致，缺乏共識 The state of not agreeing or sharing opinions.
// Marital discord.
// A note of discord has crept into relations between the two countries.
Compare : Concord
Concord (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 協調；和諧；和睦 Agreement and peace between countries and people.
// Nations living in concord.
Concord (n.) [ U ] (Specialized) (Language) （文法中單複數等的）一致，一致關係 The situation in which the words in a sentence match each other according to the rules of grammar, for example when the verb is plural because the subject of the sentence is plural.
Discord (n.) (Sound) [ C or U ] (Specialized) (Music) 不和諧音 A group of musical notes that give an unpleasant sound when played together.
Discordable (a.) That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant.
Discordance (n.) Alt. of Discordancy
Discordancy (n.) State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
Discordant (n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
Discordant (n.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
Discordant (n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
Discordful (a.) Full of discord; contentious.
Discordous (a.) Full of discord.
Discorporate (a.) Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.
Discorrespondent (a.) Incongruous.
Discost (v. i.) Same as Discoast.
Discounsel (v. t.) To dissuade.
Discounted (imp. & p. p.) of Discount
Discounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discount
Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
Discount (v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discount (v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Discount (v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
Discount (v. t.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discount (v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discountable (a.) Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
Discountenanced (imp. & p. p.) of Discountenance
Discountenancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discountenance
Discountenance (v. t.) To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage.
Discountenance (n.) Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
Discountenancer (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
Discounter (n.) One who discounts; a discount broker.
Discouraged (imp. & p. p.) of Discourage
Discouraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourage
Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
Discourage (n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
Discourageable (a.) Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.
Discourager (n.) One who discourages.
Discouraging (a.) Causing or indicating discouragement.
Discoure (v. t.) To discover.
Discourse (n.) 談話，演講 The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
Discourse (n.) Conversation; talk.
Discourse (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Discourse (n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
Discourse (n.) Dealing; transaction.
Discoursed (imp. & p. p.) of Discourse
Discoursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourse
Discourse (v. i.) 談論，演說 To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourse (v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
Discourse (v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
Discourse (v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourse (v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
Discourse (v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
Discourse (v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ U ] 對話；交流 Communication in speech or writing.
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ C ] 演講，演說；論文，文章 A speech or piece of writing about a particular, usually serious, subject.
// A discourse on/ upon the nature of life after death.
Discourser (n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
Compare:
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ U ] 對話；交流 Communication in speech or writing.
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ C ] 演講，演說；論文，文章 A speech or piece of writing about a particular, usually serious, subject.
// A discourse on/ upon the nature of life after death.
Compare: Narrator
Narrator (n.) [ C ] (C2) （書或電影中的）敘述者，講述者；旁白 The character who tells you what is happening in a book or film.
Compare: Speaker
Speaker (n.) [ C ] [ C ] (Formal talk) (B1) 發言者；演講者 A person who gives a speech at a public event.
// A good public speaker.
// Please join with me in thanking our guest speaker tonight.
// The Democrats have chosen the Texas state treasurer as the keynote (= most important) speaker at their convention.
Speaker (n.) [ C ] (Language) (B1) 說話者；演講人（說某一特定語言的人） Someone who speaks a particular language.
// A French speaker.
// A fluent Russian speaker.
// Non-English speakers.
Speaker (n.) [ C ] (Electrical) (A2) 揚聲器，喇叭 The part of a radio, television, or computer, or of a piece of electrical equipment for playing recorded sound, through which the sound is played. A speaker can be part of the radio, etc. or be separate from it.
// There's no sound coming out of the right-hand speaker.
Speaker (n.) [ C ] （議會等立法機構的）議長 The person who controls the way in which business is done in an organization which makes laws.
// He served for eight years as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
// [ As form of address ] Mr Speaker, my honourable friend has failed to consider the consequences of his proposal.
Compare: Harangue
Harangue (v.) [ T ] (Disapproving) 長篇大論地演說；斥責 To speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them.
// A drunk in the station was haranguing passers-by.
Compare: Haranguer
Haranguer (n.) One who harangues.
Haranguer (n.) A public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech.
Discourser (n.) The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
Compare: Treatise
Treatise (n.) [ C ] 專題論文；專著 A formal piece of writing that considers and examines a particular subject.
// A six-volume treatise on trademark law.
Compare: Dissertation
Dissertation (n.) [ C ] (C1) 專題論文；學位論文 A long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done in order to receive a degree at college or university.
// Ann did her dissertation on Baudelaire.
Discoursive (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Discoursive (a.) Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
Discoursive (a.) Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man.
Discoursive (n.) The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.
Discoursive (a.) An obsolete word for discursive.
Discursive (a.) Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.
Discursive (a.) Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition.
Discursive (a.) 涉及討論的 Involving discussion.
// A discursive essay.
Discursive (a.) (Formal) 東拉西扯的，不著邊際的 Talking about or dealing with subjects that are only slightly connected with the main subject for longer than necessary.
// A discursive writer/ speech.
Discourteous (a.) 失禮的，無禮貌的 Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Discourtesy (n.) 無禮，無禮貌，粗鹵的言行 Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Discourtship (n.) Want of courtesy.
Discous (a.) Disklike; discoid.
Discovenant (v. t.) To dissolve covenant with.
Discovered (imp. & p. p.) of Discover
Discovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discover
Discover (v. t.) To uncover.
Discover (v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).
Discover (v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
Discover (v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.
Discover (v. t.) To explore; to examine.
Discover (v. i.) To discover or show one's self.
Discoverability (n.) The quality of being discoverable.
Discoverable (a.) Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
Discoverer (n.) One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
Discoverer (n.) A scout; an explorer.
Discoverment (n.) Discovery.
Discovert (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
Discovert (n.) An uncovered place or part.