Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 72
Disported (imp. & p. p.) of Disport.
Disporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disport.
Disport (v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. -- Pope.
Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. -- Byron.
Disport (v. t.) To divert or amuse; to make merry.
They could disport themselves. -- Buckle.
Disport (v. t.) To remove from a port; to carry away. -- Prynne.
Disport (v.) Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies" [syn: amuse, divert, disport].
Disport (v.) Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about].
Disportment (n.) Act of disporting; diversion; play. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Disposable (a.) 可任意處理的；可自由使用的；用完即丟棄的，一次性使用的 Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.
The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a disposable surplus. -- Burke.
Disposable (a.) Designed to be disposed of after use; -- of articles of commerce. The term implies that it is less expensive to manufacture a new one than to clean and recycle the used item to make it fit for use again; as, disposable dishes; disposable diapers; disposable gloves. Opposite of reusable.
Syn: throwaway (predicate), non-reusable.
Disposable (a.) Free or available for use or disposition; "every disposable piece of equipment was sent to the fire"; "disposable assets" [ant: nondisposable].
Disposable (a.) Designed to be disposed of after use; "disposable paper cups" [ant: nondisposable].
Disposable (n.) An item that can be disposed of after it has been used.
Disposal (n.) 處理，排列，支配，佈置 The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
Disposal (n.) Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.
The execution leave to high disposal. -- Milton.
Disposal (n.) Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property.
A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life. -- Tatler.
Disposal (n.) Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.
The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns. -- South.
Syn: Disposition; dispensation; management; conduct; government; distribution; arrangement; regulation; control.
Disposal (n.) The power to use something or someone; "used all the resources at his disposal".
Disposal (n.) A method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) [syn: administration, disposal].
Disposal (n.) The act or means of getting rid of something [syn: disposal, disposition].
Disposal (n.) A kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage [syn: disposal, electric pig, garbage disposal].
Disposed (imp. & p. p.) of Dispose.
Disposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispose.
Dispose (v. t.) 配置，布置 [（+for）]；處置，處理；整理 To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
Who hath disposed the whole world? -- Job xxxiv. 13.
All ranged in order and disposed with grace. -- Pope.
The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. -- Spenser.
Dispose (v. t.) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
The knightly forms of combat to dispose. -- Dryden.
Dispose (v. t.) To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. -- Evelyn.
Dispose (v. t.) To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.
Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes. -- Dryden.
Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. -- Bacon.
{To dispose of}. (v. t.) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use.
Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. -- Locke.
{To dispose of}. (v. t.) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.
More water . . . than can be disposed of. -- T. Burnet.
I have disposed of her to a man of business. -- Tatler.
A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. -- Waller.
Syn: To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.
Dispose (v. i.) 處置，處理；（能）決定 [（+of）] To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]
She had disposed with C[ae]sar. -- Shak.
Dispose (n.) Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.]
But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. -- Speed.
Dispose (n.) Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.]
He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected. -- Shak.
Dispose (v.) Give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions".
Dispose (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}].
Dispose (v.) Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them" [syn: {dispose}, {incline}] [ant: {disincline}, {indispose}].
Dispose (v.) Place or put in a particular order; "the dots are unevenly disposed".
Dispose (v.) Make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: {qualify}, {dispose}] [ant: {disqualify}, {indispose}, {unfit}].
Disposed (p. a.) 打算做……的；有……的傾向；dispose 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Inclined; minded.
When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. -- Acts xviii. 27.
Disposed (p. a.) Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
{Well disposed}, In good condition; in good health. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Disposed (a.) Having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: {disposed(p)}, {fain}, {inclined(p)}, {prepared}].
Disposed (a.) (Usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I am not minded to answer any questions" [syn: {apt(p)}, {disposed(p)}, {given(p)}, {minded(p)}, {tending(p)}].
Disposedness (n.) The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [R.]
Disposement (n.) Disposal. [Obs.] -- Goodwin.
Disposer (n.) 處理者；碎渣機 One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.
Absolute lord and disposer of all things. -- Barrow.
Disposingly (adv.) In a manner to dispose.
Disposited (a.) Disposed. [Obs.] -- Glanvill.
Disposition (n.) 性格；性情 [C]；傾向；意向 [C] [+to-v] The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. -- Acts vii. 53.
The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. -- Dryden.
Disposition (n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
Disposition (n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
Disposition (n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
How stands your disposition to be married? -- Shak.
Disposition (n.) Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind. "A man of turbulent disposition." -- Hallam. "He is of a very melancholy disposition." -- Shak.
His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. -- Strype.
Disposition (n.) Mood; humor.
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. -- Shak.
Syn: Disposal; adjustment; regulation; arrangement; distribution; order; method; adaptation; inclination; propensity; bestowment; alienation; character; temper; mood. -- Disposition, Character, Temper.
Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the predominating quality of his character, the constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this disposition influenced by motive, training, and will. Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the passions, are aroused.
Disposition (n.) Your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" [syn: {disposition}, {temperament}].
Disposition (n.) The act or means of getting rid of something [syn: {disposal}, {disposition}].
Disposition (n.) An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn: {inclination}, {disposition}, {tendency}].
Disposition (n.) A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture".
Disposition, French law. This word has several acceptations; sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person; and at others the instrument containing those marks.
Disposition, () The dispositions of man make the dispositions of the law to cease; for example, when a man bequeaths his estate, the disposition he makes of it, renders the legal disposition of it, if he had died intestate, to cease.
Disposition (n.) (C2) 性格，性情 [ C usually singular ] The particular type of character that a person naturally has.
// She is of a nervous/ cheerful/ sunny disposition.
Disposition (n.) [ S + to infinitive ] (Formal) 傾向；意向 A natural tendency to do something, or to have or develop something.
// A disposition to deceive.
Dispositional (a.) Pertaining to disposition.
Dispositioned (a.) Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned.
Dispositive (a.) Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [Obs.]
His dispositive wisdom and power. -- Bates.
Dispositive (a.) Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. [Obs.] "Dispositive holiness." -- Jer. Taylor.
Dispositively (adv.) In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. -- Boyle.
Dispositor (n.) A disposer.
Dispositor (n.) (Astrol.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Obs.] -- Crabb.
Dispossessed (imp. & p. p.) of Dispossess.
Dispossessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispossess.
Dispossess (v. t.) 沒收；奪取 To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. -- Goldsmith.
Dispossess (v.) Deprive of the possession of real estate.
Dispossession (n.) 強占不動產；驅逐；奪取 The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. -- Bp. Hall.
Dispossession (n.) (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also {ouster}.
Dispossession (n.) The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law [syn: {eviction}, {dispossession}, {legal ouster}].
Dispossession (n.) Freeing from evil spirits [syn: {exorcism}, {dispossession}].
Dispossessor (n.) 剝奪者 One who dispossesses. -- Cowley.
Dispost (v. t.) To eject from a post; to displace. [R.] -- Davies (Holy Roode).
Disposure (n.) The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.
Give up My estate to his disposure. -- Massinger.
Disposure (n.) Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. [Obs.]
In a kind of warlike disposure. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Dispraisable (a.) Blamable. [R.]
Dispraised (imp. & p. p.) of Dispraise.
Dispraising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispraise.
Dispraise (v. t.) To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.
Dispraising the power of his adversaries. -- Chaucer.
I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. -- Shak.
Dispraise (n.) The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. -- Dryden.
In praise and in dispraise the same. -- Tennyson.
Dispraise (n.) The act of speaking contemptuously of [syn: disparagement, dispraise].
Dispraiser (n.) One who blames or dispraises.
Dispraisingly (adv.) By way of dispraise.
Dispread (v. t.) To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. -- Spenser.
Dispread (v. i.) To extend or expand itself. [R.]
While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky. -- Thomson.
Dispread (v.) Spread abroad or out; "The sun dispread its beams".
Dispreader (n.) One who spreads abroad.
Dispreaders both of vice and error. -- Milton.
Disprejudice (v. t.) To free from prejudice. [Obs.] -- W. Montagu.
Disprepare (v. t.) To render unprepared. [Obs.] -- Hobbes.
Disprince (v. t.) To make unlike a prince. [R.]
For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. -- Tennyson.
Disprison (v. t.) To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. [R.] -- Bulwer.
Disprivilege (v. t.) To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]
Disprize (v. t.) To depreciate. [R.] -- Cotton (Ode to Lydia).
Disprofess (v. t.) To renounce the profession or pursuit of.
His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. -- Spenser.
Disprofit (n.) Loss; damage. -- Foxe.
Disprofit (v. i. & i.) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Bale.
Disprofitable (a.) Unprofitable. [Obs.]
Disproof (n.) 反證；反駁 A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. -- Rogers.
Disproof (n.) Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something [syn: {disproof}, {falsification}, {refutation}].
Disproof (n.) The act of determining that something is false [syn: {falsification}, {falsifying}, {disproof}, {refutation}, {refutal}].
Disproperty (v. t.) To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [R.] -- Shak.
Disproportion (n.) Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
Disproportion (n.) Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.
Disproportioned (imp. & p. p.) of Disproportion.
Disproportioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disproportion.
Disproportion (v. t.) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. -- Shak.
A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. -- Prescott.
Disproportion (n.) Lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something [ant: proportion, symmetry].
Disproportionable (a.) Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, (adv.)
Disproportional (a.) 不均衡的；不相稱的 Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.
Disproportional (a.) Out of proportion [syn: disproportionate, disproportional] [ant: proportionate].
Disproportionality (n.) 比例失調 The state of being disproportional. -- Dr. H. More.
Disproportionally (adv.) 不相稱地；不均衡地 In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
Disproportionate (a.) 不均衡的；不相稱的 Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. -- {Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ness}, n.
Disproportionate (a.) Out of proportion [syn: {disproportionate}, {disproportional}] [ant: {proportionate}].
Disproportionate (a.) Not proportionate.
Disproportionately (adv.) 不成比例地；太大或太小；不相稱地 Out of proportion; "this wall is disproportionately long" [ant: {proportionately}].
Disproportionately (adv.) To a disproportionate degree; "his benefits were disproportionately generous" [ant: {proportionally}, {proportionately}].
Dispropriate (v. t.) To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate. [R.]
Disprovable (a.) Capable of being disproved or refuted. -- Boyle.
Disproval (n.) Act of disproving; disproof. [R.]
Disproved (imp. & p. p.) of Disprove.
Disproving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disprove.
Disprove (v. t.) 證明……是虛假的；反駁 To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it. -- Atterbury.
Disprove (v. t.) To disallow; to disapprove of. [Obs.] -- Stirling.
Disprove (v.) Prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories" [syn: disprove, confute] [ant: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew, show].
Disprover (n.) One who disproves or confutes.
Disprover (n.) A debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument [syn: rebutter, disprover, refuter, confuter].
Disprovide (v. t.) Not to provide; to fail to provide. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Dispunct (a.) Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. [Obs.]
That were dispunct to the ladies. -- B. Jonson.
Dispunct (v. t.) To expunge. [Obs.] -- Foxe.
Dispunge (v. t.) To expunge; to erase. [Obs.]
Dispunge (v. t.) See {Disponge}. [Obs.]
Disponge (v. t.) To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. [Poetic & Rare] [Written also {dispunge}.]
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. -- Shak.
Dispunishable (a.) Without penal restraint; not punishable. [R.] -- Swift.
Dispurpose (v. t.) To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] -- A. Brewer.
Dispurse (v. t.) To disburse. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Dispurvey (v. t.) To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] -- Heywood.
Dispurveyance (n.) Want of provisions; lack of food. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Dispurveyance (n.) (In British) (Obsolete) The lack of provisions.