Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 64
Discuss (v. t.) (Law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety. -- Burrill.
Syn: To Discuss, Examine, Debate. We speak of examining a subject when we ponder it with care, in order to discover its real state, or the truth respecting it. We speak of discussing a topic when we examine it thoroughly in its distinct parts. The word is very commonly applied to matters of opinion. We may discuss a subject without giving in an adhesion to any conclusion.
We speak of debating a point when we examine it in mutual argumentation between opposing parties. In debate we contend for or against some conclusion or view.
Discuss (v.) To consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'" [syn: discourse, talk about, discuss].
Discuss (v.) Speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion; "We discussed our household budget" [syn: hash out, discuss, talk over].
Discusser (n.) One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. --Wood.
Discussion (n.) The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. [archaic]
Discussion (n.) The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation.
The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of all other liberties. -- Macaulay.
Discussion of a problem or Discussion of an equation (Math.), The operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result. -- Math. Dict.
Discussion (n.) An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" [syn: discussion, treatment, discourse].
Discussion (n.) An exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" [syn: discussion, give-and-take, word].
Discussion, () civil law. A proceeding, on the part of a surety, by which. the property of the principal debtor is made liable before resort can be had to the sureties; this is called the benefit of discussion. This is the law in Louisiana. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 3014 to 3020. See Domat, 3, 4, 1 to 4; Burge on Sur. 329, 343, 348; 5 Toull. p. 544 7 Toull. p. 93; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1414.
Discussion (n.) A method of confirming others in their errors.
Discussion (n.) [ C or U ] (B1) 討論，議論，談論 The activity in which people talk about something and tell each other their ideas or opinions.
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Discussional (a.) Pertaining to discussion.
Discussive (a.) (Med.) Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.
Discussive (a.) Doubt-dispelling; decisive. [R.]
A kind of peremptory and discussive voice. -- Hopkins.
Discussive (n.) (Med.) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.
Discutient (a.) (Med.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter. "Foment with discutiens." -- Wiseman.
Discutient (n.) An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter.
Disdain (n.) A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
How my soul is moved with just disdain! -- Pope.
Note: Often implying an idea of haughtiness.
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. -- Shak.
Disdain (n.) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion. [Obs.]
Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain. -- Spenser.
Disdain (v. t.) The state of being despised; shame. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Syn: Haughtiness; scorn; contempt; arrogance; pride. See Haughtiness.
Disdained (imp. & p. p.) of Disdain
Disdaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disdain
Disdain (v. t.) To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.
Disdaining . . . that any should bear the armor of the best knight living. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Disdain (v. t.) To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc.
When the Philistine . . . saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth. -- 1 Sam. xvii. 42.
'T is great, 't is manly to disdain disguise. -- Young.
Syn: To contemn; despise; scorn. See Contemn.
Disdain (v. i.) To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did . . . they disdained. -- Genevan Testament (Matt. xxi. 15).
Disdain (n.) Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt, disdain, scorn, despite].
Disdain (n.) A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient [syn: condescension, disdain, patronage].
Disdain (v.) Look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain].
Disdain (v.) Reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down].
Disdained (a.) Disdainful. [Obs.]
Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. -- Shak.
Disdainful (a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. -- Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.
Disdainful (a.) Expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful].
Disdainful (a.) Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual" -- W. L. Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering].
Disdainishly (adv.) Disdainfully. [Obs.] -- Vives.
Disdainous (a.) Disdainful. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R.
Disdainously (adv.) Disdainfully. [Obs.] --Bale.
Disdeify (v. t.) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. -- Feltham.
Disdeign (v. t.) To disdain.
[Obs.]
Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. -- Spenser.
Disdiaclast (n.) (Physiol.) One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.
Disdiapason (n.) (Anc. Mus.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason. Compare diapason [1].
Disease (n.) Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [Obs.]
So all that night they passed in great disease. -- Spenser.
To shield thee from diseases of the world. -- Shak.
Disease (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. -- Shak.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. -- Madison.
Disease germ. See under Germ.
Syn: Distemper; ailing; ailment; malady; disorder; sickness; illness; complaint; indisposition; affection. -- Disease, Disorder, Distemper, Malady, Affection. Disease is the leading medical term.
Disorder mean? much the same, with perhaps some slight reference to an irregularity of the system. Distemper is now used by physicians only of the diseases of animals.
Malady is not a medical term, and is less used than formerly in literature. Affection has special reference to the part, organ, or function disturbed; as, his disease is an affection of the lungs. A disease is usually deep-seated and permanent, or at least prolonged; a disorder is often slight, partial, and temporary; malady has less of a technical sense than the other terms, and refers more especially to the suffering endured. In a figurative sense we speak of a disease mind, of disordered faculties, and of mental maladies.
Diseased (imp. & p. p.) of Disease
Diseasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disease
Disease (v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [Obs.]
His double burden did him sore disease. -- Spenser.
Disease (v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
He was diseased in body and mind. -- Macaulay.
Disease (n.) An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning.
Diseased (a.) Afflicted with disease.
It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. -- W. Irving.
Syn: See Morbid.
Diseased (a.) Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological].
Diseasedness (n.) The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] -- T. Burnet.
Diseaseful (a.) Causing uneasiness. [Obs.]
Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. -- Bacon.
Diseaseful (a.) Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. [R.]
Diseasefulness (n.) The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Diseasement (n.) Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Disedge (v. t.) To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.
Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. -- Tennyson.
Disedify (v. t.) To fail of edifying; to injure. [R.]
Diselder (v. t.) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Diselenide (n.) (Chem.) A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.
Disembarked (imp. & p. p.) of Disembark
Disembarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembark
Disembark (v. t.) 登陸；上岸；下車 To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.
Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers. -- Shak.
Disembark (v. i.) 使上岸；卸（貨）；使登陸 To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. -- Cowper.
Disembark (v.) Go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton" [syn: disembark, debark, set down] [ant: embark, ship].
Disembarkation (n.) The act of disembarking.
Disembarkation (n.) The act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft [syn: debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment] [ant: boarding, embarkation, embarkment].
Disembarkment (n.) Disembarkation. [R.]
Disembarkment (n.) The act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft [syn: debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment] [ant: boarding, embarkation, embarkment].
Disembarrassed (imp. & p. p.) of Disembarrass
Disembarrassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembarrass
Disembarrass (v. t.) To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.
To disembarrass himself of his companion. -- Sir W. Scott.
Disembarrass (v.) Relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free, disembarrass].
Disembarrassment (n.) Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
Disembarrassment (n.) Something that extricates you from embarrassment [ant: embarrassment].
Disembayed (imp. & p. p.) of Disembay
Disembaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembay
Disembay (v. t.) To clear from a bay. -- Sherburne.
Disembellish (v. t.) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. -- Carlyle.
Disembitter (v. t.) To free from
Disembodied (a.) 無實質的；脫離現實的；Disembody 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
The disembodied spirits of the dead. -- Bryant.
Disembodied (a.) Not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts" [syn: {discorporate}, {unembodied}, {bodiless}, {unbodied}, {disembodied}].
Disembodiment (n.) The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
Disembodied (imp. & p. p.) of Disembody
Disembodying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembody
Disembody (v. t.) 肉體脫離；使脫離實體 To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
Devils embodied and disembodied. -- Sir W. Scott.
Disembody (v. t.) (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. -- Wilhelm.
Disembody (v.) Free from a body or physical form or reality.
Disembogued (imp. & p. p.) of Disembogue
Disemboguing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembogue
Disembogue (v. t.) 注入，開航 To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.
Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves. -- Addison.
Disembogue (v. t.) To eject; to cast forth. [R.] -- Swift.
Disembogue (v. i.) To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.
Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. -- Young.
Disemboguement (n.) 流注；流出 The act of disemboguing; discharge. -- Mease.
Disembossom (v. t.) To separate from the bosom. [R.] -- Young.
Disembowel (v. t.) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. -- Cook.
Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. -- Thomson.
Disembowel (v. t.) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." -- J. Philips.
Disembowel (v.) Remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel, eviscerate, draw].
Disembowelment (n.) The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
Disembowelment (n.) The act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn: disembowelment, evisceration].
Disembowered (a.) Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] -- Bryant.
Disembrangle (v. t.) To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] -- Berkeley.
Disembroiled (imp. & p. p.) of Disembroil
Disembroiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembroil
Disembroil (v. t.) To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. -- Addison.
Disembroil (v.) Free from involvement or entanglement; "How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?" [syn: disinvolve, disembroil, disentangle].
Disemploy (v. t.) To throw out of employment. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Disemployment (n.) The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.
This glut of leisure and disemployment. -- Jer. Taylor.
Disempower (v. t.) To deprive of power; to divest of strength. -- H. Bushnell.
Disenable (v. t.) To disable; to disqualify.
The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. -- State Trials (1640).
Disenable (v.) Make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable, incapacitate] [ant: enable].
Disenamor (v. t.) To free from the captivity of love. -- Shelton.
Disenchained (a.) Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] -- E. A. Poe.
Disenchanted (imp. & p. p.) of Disenchant
Disenchanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disenchant
Disenchant (v. t.) To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.
Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. -- Dryden.
Disenchant (v. t.) To free (a person) from fascination or delusion; to destroy the false hopes or overoptimistic expectations of (a person); to disillusion; -- used with people or events as the agent (subject); as, the candidate was disenchanted by the low turnout at the rally.
Disenchant (v.) Free from enchantment [syn: disenchant, disillusion] [ant: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport].
Disenchanter (n.) One who, or that which, disenchants.
Disenchantment (n.) The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. -- Shelton.
Disenchantment (n.) Freeing from false belief or illusions [syn: disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment].
Disencharm (v. t.) To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Disenclose (v. t.) See Disinclose.
Disencouragement (n.) Discouragement. [Obs.] -- Spectator.
Disencrese (v. i.) To decrease. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Disencrese (n.) Decrease. [Obs.]
Disencumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Disencumber
Disencumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disencumber
Disencumber (v. t.) To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. -- Owen.
I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. -- Dryden.
Disencumber (v.) Release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task" [syn: extricate, untangle, disentangle, disencumber].
Disencumbrance (n.) Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. -- Spectator.
Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church. -- Gladstone.