Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 70
Disowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disown.
Disown (v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.
Disown (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne. -- Dryden.
Syn: To disavow; disclaim; deny; abnegate; renounce; disallow.
Disowning (n.) Refusal to acknowledge as one's own [syn: disownment, disowning].
Disownment (n.) Act of disowning. [R.]
Disownment (n.) Refusal to acknowledge as one's own [syn: disownment, disowning].
Disoxidate (v. t.) (Chem.) To deoxidate; to deoxidize. [R.]
Disoxidation (n.) (Chem.) Deoxidation. [R.]
Disoxygenate (v. t.) (Chem.) To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize. [R.]
Disoxygenation (n.) (Chem.) Deoxidation. [R.]
Dispace (v. i.) To roam. [Obs.] In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. -- Spenser.
Dispair (v. t.) To separate (a pair). [R.]
I have . . . dispaired two doves. -- Beau. & Fl.
Dispand (v. t.) To spread out; to expand. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Dispansion (n.) Act of dispanding, or state of being dispanded. [Obs.]
Disparadised (a.) Removed from paradise. [R.] -- Cockeram.
Disparaged (imp. & p. p.) of Disparage.
Disparaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disparage.
Disparage (v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. [Obs.]
Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be. -- Chaucer.
Disparage (v. t.) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious. -- Bp. Atterbury.
Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. -- Milton.
Syn: To decry; depreciate; undervalue; underrate; cheapen; vilify; reproach; detract from; derogate from; degrade; debase. See Decry.
Disparage (n.) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Dissuaded her from such a disparage. -- Spenser.
Disparage (v.) Express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" [syn: disparage, belittle, pick at] [ant: blandish, flatter].
Disparagement (n.) Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.]
And thought that match a foul disparagement. -- Spenser.
Disparagement (n.) Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to.
It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not the sun. -- South.
Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a Christian minister. -- I. Taylor.
Syn: Indignity; derogation; detraction; reproach; dishonor; debasement; degradation; disgrace.
Disparagement (n.) A communication that belittles somebody or something [syn: disparagement, depreciation, derogation].
Disparagement (n.) The act of speaking contemptuously of [syn: disparagement, dispraise].
Disparager (n.) One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.
Disparager (n.) One who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn: detractor, disparager, depreciator, knocker].
Disparagingly (adv.) In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.
Disparagingly (adv.) In a disparaging manner; "these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'" [syn: disparagingly, slightingly].
Disparate (a.) 迥然不同的；異類的 Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
Connecting disparate thoughts, Purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. -- Coleridge.
Disparate (a.) (Logic) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.
Disparate (a.) Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas".
Disparate (a.) Including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers".
Disparates (n. pl.) Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.
Disparition (n.) Act of disappearing; disappearance. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Disparities (n. pl. ) of Disparity.
Disparity (n.) Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.
The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. -- I. Taylor.
The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Inequality; unlikeness; dissimilitude; disproportion; difference.
Disparity (n.) Inequality or difference in some respect
Dispark (v. t.) To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.
The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. -- Jer. Taylor.
Dispark (v. t.) To set at large; to release from inclosure.
Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all. -- Waller.
Disparkle (v. t.) To scatter abroad. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Dispart (v. t.) (Gun.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly disport his piece. -- Lucar.
Dispart (v. t.) (Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
Disparted (imp. & p. p.) of Dispart.
Disparting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispart.
Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic]
Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. -- Spenser.
The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. -- Emerson.
Dispart (v. i.) To separate, to open; to cleave.
Dispart (n.) (Gun.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
On account of the dispart, The line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis. -- Eng. Cys.
Dispart (n.) (Gun.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.
Dispassion (n.) Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy. -- Sir W. Temple.
Dispassion (n.) Objectivity and detachment; "her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone" [syn: dispassion, dispassionateness, dryness].
Dispassionate (a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Wise and dispassionate men. -- Clarendon.
Dispassionate (a.) Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.
Syn: Calm; cool; composed serene; unimpassioned; temperate; moderate; impartial; unruffled. -- Dis*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- Dis*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
Dispassionate (a.) Unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice; "a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact" [syn: dispassionate, cold-eyed].
Dispassioned (a.) Free from passion; dispassionate. [R.] "Dispassioned men." -- Donne.
Dispatched (imp. & p. p.) of Dispatch.
Dispatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispatch.
Dispatch (v. t.) 派遣；發送；快遞 [（+to）]；迅速處理，迅速了結；匆匆吃完 To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of. -- Shak.
[The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Dispatch (v. t.) To rid; to free. [Obs.]
I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. -- Udall.
Dispatch (v. t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. -- Walpole.
Dispatch (v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's court. -- Shak.
Dispatch (v. t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.
The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. -- Ezek. xxiii. 47.
Syn: To expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform; conclude; finish; slay; kill.
Dispatch (v. i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
They have dispatched with Pompey. -- Shak.
Dispatch (n.) 派遣，發送 [U]；（公文）急件；快信 [C] The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
Dispatch (n.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts. -- Milton.
Dispatch (n.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
Serious business, craving quick dispatch. -- Shak.
To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space. -- Paley.
Dispatch (v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
Dispatch (v. t.) A message transmitted by telegraph. [Modern]
{Dispatch boat}, A swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat.
{Dispatch box}, A box for carrying dispatches; a box for papers and other conveniences when traveling.
Syn: Haste; hurry; promptness; celerity; speed. See {Haste}.
Dispatch (n.) An official report (usually sent in haste) [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {communique}].
Dispatch (n.) The act of sending off something [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {shipment}].
Dispatch (n.) The property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {expedition}, {expeditiousness}].
Dispatch (n.) Killing a person or animal [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}].
Dispatch (v.) Send away towards a designated goal [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {send off}].
Dispatch (v.) Complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties" [syn: {dispatch}, {discharge}, {complete}].
Dispatch (v.) Kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {hit}, {dispatch}, {bump off}, {off}, {polish off}, {remove}].
Dispatch (v.) Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently; "He dispatched the task he was assigned".
Dispatch (v.) Kill without delay; "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators".
Dispatch (v.) [ T ] (UK also Despatch) (Send) 發送，派送 To send something, especially goods or a message, somewhere for a particular purpose.
// Two loads of cloth were dispatched to the factory on 12 December.
Dispatch (v.) [ T ] (Kill) (Literary or old-fashioned) 殺死，結束…的性命 To kill someone.
// Our handsome hero manages to dispatch another five villains.
Dispatch (n.) (UK also Despatch) [ U ] 發送，派送，遣送 The act of sending someone or something somewhere.
// The dispatch of troops.
Dispatch (n.) (UK also Despatch) [ C ] （常指駐外記者發來的軍事方面的）新聞報道，電訊 A newspaper report sent by someone in a foreign country, often communicating war news, or an official report, often on a military matter.
// In her latest dispatch, Clare Duggan, our war correspondent, reported an increase in fighting.
Be mentioned in dispatches (UK) 在戰報中受到高度讚揚 To be given a lot of praise for actions you have performed as a soldier.
// Sergeant Havers was mentioned in dispatches for his courage.
Idiom:
With dispatch (Old-fashioned formal) 迅速而有效地 Quickly and effectively.
Dispatcher (n.) One who dispatches.
Dispatcher (n.) The official who signals the beginning of a race or competition [syn: starter, dispatcher].
Dispatcher (n.) Employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service.
Dispatchful (a.) Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks. -- Milton.
Dispatchment (n.) The act of dispatching. [Obs.] -- State Trials (1529).
Dispathies (n. pl. ) of Dispathy.
Dispathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy. [R.]
Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. -- Southey.
Dispauper (v. t.) To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis. -- J. S. Mill.
Dispauperize (v. t.) To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. -- J. S. Mill.
Dispeed (v. t.) To send off with speed; to dispatch. [Obs.] -- Knolles.
Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, Do a Ximena. -- Southey.
Dispelled (imp. & p. p.) of Dispel.
Dispelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispel.
Dispel (v. t.) To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions. [Satan] gently raised their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears. -- Milton.
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. -- Dryden.
Dispel (v.) Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" [syn: chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off].
Dispel (v.) To cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" [syn: disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter].
Dispence (v. i. & n.) See Dispense. [Obs.]
Dispend (v. t.) To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. -- Fuller.
Dispender (n.) One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] -- Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).
Dispensable (a.) 非必要的；可分配的；可寬恕的 Capable of being dispensed or administered.
Dispensable (a.) Capable of being dispensed with. -- Coleridge.
Dispensable (a.) Capable of being dispensed with or done without; "dispensable items of personal property" [ant: indispensable].
Dispensableness (n.) Quality of being dispensable.
Dispensableness (n.) The quality possessed by something that you can get along without [syn: dispensability, dispensableness] [ant: indispensability, indispensableness, vitalness].
Dispensaries (n. pl. ) of Dispensary
Dispensary (n.) （醫院的）藥局，藥劑部，藥房；診療所 A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
Dispensary (n.) A dispensatory. -- Pope.
Dispensary (n.) Clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed.
Dispensation (n.) 分配（物）；施與（物）[U] [C]；管理；統治 [U]；（義務等的）免除 [U]；【律】特許；特免 [U]；（天主教）特許狀 [C]；【宗】天命；神意，神的安排 [U] [C]；【宗】教規 [C] The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
To respect the dispensations of Providence. -- Burke.
Dispensation (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed ; especially (Theol.), A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. -- Rogers.
Dispensation (n.) The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. -- Ward.
Dispensation (n.) An exemption from some rule or obligation.
Dispensation (n.) A share that has been dispensed or distributed.
Dispensation (n.) The act of dispensing (giving out in portions).
Dispensation, () The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations, the Patriarchal, the Mosaic or Jewish, and the Christian. (See COVENANT, Administration of.) These were so many stages in God's unfolding of his purpose of grace toward men. The word is not found with this meaning in Scripture.
Dispensation, () A commission to preach the gospel (1 Cor. 9:17; Eph. 1:10; 3:2; Col. 1:25).
Dispensations of Providence are providential events which affect men either in the way of mercy or of judgement.
Dispensative (a.) 特許權的, 給予特許（或豁免）的 [ 亦作dispensatory ] Granting dispensation.
Dispensatively (adv.) By dispensation. -- Wotton.
Dispensator (n.) [L.] A distributer; a dispenser. -- Bacon.
Dispensatorily (adv.) In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
Dispensatory (a.) 分配的；執行的；免除的 Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." -- Bp. Rainbow.
Dispensatories (n. pl. ) of Dispensatory
Dispensatory (n.) 藥方書；【古】藥房 A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacop[oe]ia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.
Dispensed (imp. & p. p.) of Dispense.
Dispensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispense.
Dispense (v. t.) 分配，分發；施給 [（+to）]；執行，施行；管理；配（藥），配（方） To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. -- Sir W. Scott.
Dispense (v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. -- Dryden.
Dispense (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.]
His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed. -- Gower.
Dispense (v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance. -- Macaulay.
He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself. -- Johnson.
Dispense (v. i.) 免除；省掉 [（+with）] To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.]
One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense. -- Spenser.
Dispense (v. i.) To give dispensation.
He [the pope] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law. -- Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. )
{To dispense with}. To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with.
{To dispense with}. To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. [Obs.] "Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery." -- Milton.
{To dispense with}. To break or go back from, as one's word. [Obs.] -- Richardson.
Dispense (n.) Dispensation; exemption. [Obs.]
Dispense (n.) Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.]
It was a vault built for great dispense. -- Spenser.
Dispense (v.) Administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks" [syn: {distribute}, {administer}, {mete out}, {deal}, {parcel out}, {lot}, {dispense}, {shell out}, {deal out}, {dish out}, {allot}, {dole out}].
Dispense (v.) Grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; "I was dispensed from this terrible task".
Dispense (v.) Give or apply (medications) [syn: {administer}, {dispense}].
Dispenser (n.) 藥劑師；分配者；施與者 One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
Dispenser (n.) A container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts.
Dispenser (n.) A person who dispenses.
Dispeopled (imp. & p. p.) of Dispeople.
Dispeopling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispeople.