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Show DI kingdom with known ability, and laid them dow with entire difintereffment Prior's Poftfeript Dist'NTEREST. #. [0 [dis and intereft. 1. What is contrary to one's with or pro{perity ; that which any one is concerned to prevent They judge it the great difintereft to Rome Glanwille 2. Indifference to profit; fuperiority t regards of private advantage Dist'NTERESTED. adj. [from difintereft. 1. Superior to regard of privateadvantage not influenced by private profit As difinterefed as yo appear to the world n man is more in the power of that prevailing fa 2 vourite paflion than yourfelf Savift Without any concern in an affair without fear or hope Dist'NTERESTEDLY. adv. [from difintereffed.] In a difinterefted manner DisUNTERESTEDNESS. 7. /i [from difinterefted.] Contempt of private intereft negle& of perfonal profit Thefe expreflions of felfithnefs and difinterefled#z1¢fs have been ufed in a very loofe and indeterminate manner Brown 70 D1s1'NTRICATE. @. a. [disand intricate.] 'To difentangle Dié o Disinvi‘Te. @. a. [dis and invite. To retra an invitation Dié o D1sjo1'N. w. a. [dejoindre, Fr. dis an join. To feparate ; to part from eac other ; to difunite ; to funder Never thall my harp thy praif Forget, nor from thy father's praife disjoin. Milton Left different degre Disjoin us, and I then too late renounc Deity for thee, when fate will not permit AMilton Happier for me, that all our hours aflign' Together we had liv'd ; ev'n'not in death disjoin'd Dryden Never let us lay down our arms againft France till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanift monarchy Addifon 90 Disjor'NT. w.a. [dis and joint. 1. To put out of joint Be all their ligaments at once unbound And their disjointed bones to powder ground Sandys Yet what could fwerds or poifon, racks or flame But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame More fatal Henry's words ; they murder'd Emma' fame Prior 2. To break at junétures ; to feparate a the part where there is a cement Mould'rin arches, and disjointed columns 3. To break in pieces ; to dilaniate Irene Rotation muft difperfe in ai All things which on the rapid orb appear And if no power that motion fhould controul It muft disjoint and diffipate the whole. Blackmore Should a barbarous Indian who had never fce a palace or a fhip, view the feparate and disjointe parts, he would be able to form but a very lame an dark idea of either of thofe excellent and ufefu inventions Warts 4. To carve a fowl 5. To make incoherent ; to break the re Tation between the parts #-The conftancy of your wit was not wont to brin forth fuch disjointed fpeeches Sidney But now her grief has wrought her into frenzy The images her troubled fancy form fire incoherent, wild3 her words disjointed. Smith o Disjor'nr @w. 7 To fall in pieces Let both worlds disjoint, and all things fuffer Erc we will eat our meal in fear Shak. Macberh Disjor'NT. participle. [from the verb. Separated ; divided W now writ "pi Disk1I'NDNESS. n z./. [dijudicatio, Lat. Disjupica'rioN Judgment; determination: perhaps onl miftaken for dijudication The difpofition of the organ is of great importance in the disjudications we make of colours Disju'~er. adj want of benevolence 2 either day or night 5 The weather is eithe Jbiny or rainy 5 Quantity is either length breadth, or depth. 'The truth of disjunctives depends on the neceflary and immediate oppofition of the parts, therefore only the laft of thefe examples i true: but the two firft are not ftrictl true; becaufe twilight is a medium be"tween day and night; and dry cloud weather is a medium between fhinin and raining Watts's Logick A disjunéive fyllogifm is when the major propofition is disjunttive : as, the earth moves in a circle, or an ellipfis 5 but it does not move in a circle therefore it moves in an ellipfis #atts's Logick Disju'Ncrivery. adv. [from disjunctive.] Diftinétly ; feparately What he obferves of the numbers disjunivel and apart, reafon fuggefts to be applicable to th whole body united DISK #. Caufes of the Decay of Picty [difeus, Lat. 1. The face of the fun, or any planet, a it appears ta the eye The difk of Pheebus, when he climbs on high Appears at firft but as a bloodfhot eye Dryden It is to be confidered, that the rays, which ar equally refrangible, do fall upon a circle anfiverin to the fun's difk Newton Mercury's dif Can fearce be caught by philofophic eye Loft in the near effulgence The jealous man is not angry if you diflike an other ; but if you find thofe faults which arein hi own character, you difcover not only your difliteo 2. A broad piece of iron thrown in the ancient fports ; a quoit The eryftal of the eye, which in a fith is a ball in any land animal is a di/& or bowl 5 being hereb fitted for the clearer fight of the obje, - Grew In areas varied with mofaic art another, but of himfelf 2 Difcord diflenfion Some whirl the di, and fome the jav'lindart, Pope Aé'difm difagreement This fenfe is not now in ufe This faid Aletes, and a murmur rof DISL‘IJ 19 Th M}I i A o Pk W al more i 5 To Thel + To That thew'd diflike among the chriftian peers Fairfax Zo DisLY'RE. @, a. [dis and k] T difapprove ; toregard without affection to regard with ill will or difguft " fa What moft he fhould diflike, feems pleafant t him What like, offenfive Shakefpeare's King Lear Ye diflike, and fo und The players, and difgrace the poet too. Denbar Whofoever diflikes the digreffions, or grows wear Temple of them, may throw them away Distiy'kErvL. adj. [diflike and full. Difaffected; malign: not in ufe I think it beft, by an union of manners, an conformity of minds, to bring them to be one peo- ple, and to put away the diflikeful conceit of the on Spenfer's Treland and the other FoDisLrkEN. @. a. [dis and lifken.] T make unlike Unufual Muffle your face Difmantle you; and, as you can, diflike The truth of your own feeming Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale DisLi'RENESS. . [ [dis and Jikenefs. Diffimilitude ; not refemblance; ua likenefs That which is not defigned to reprefent &1 thing but itfelf, can never be capable of a wron reprefentation, nor miflead us from the true appfe henfion of any thing by its diffikenfs to it; a kav ou al ar nces fubft o thof in excep fuch Lacke complex ideas pf d e i f d / 7 DisLykER d f e p n 1 a t Ther u t c v o w i w t i is a p ;' tm t le gt ) 'fi t r j m n f e p will never fail o w i l f t e r f b l w e i the dif Thomfon ™ fevere as philofophy. It would have refted in ward fenfes, tacit diflikes South [disjunéivus, Lat. 3. [In logick.] A disjuné&ive propofitio is when the parts are oppofed to one another by disjunétive particles: as, It i D Sorrow would have been as filent as thought, 3 South There are fuch words as disjuntZive conjunétions Watts Our likings or diflikes are founded rathc:[u;';/:)n; humour and fancy, than upon reafon, L' Efny Juncion of the body and the foul in the natural 2. That which marks feparation or oppofition : as, I lowe him, or fear him Wou Hammond's Pra, Catech There is a great analogy between the body natural and politic, in which the ecclefiaftical or fpiritual part juftly fupplies the part of the foul'; an the violent feparation of this from the other, doe as certainly infer death and diffolution, as the di/ tive nature, as not to be united in a fufficient number to make a vifible mafs Grew % malignity Your diflikes, to whom I would be pleafin Do cloud my joys with danger and with forro:‘y Sha God's grace, that principle of his nefiv%{f{}: gives him continual diflike to fin Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale Such principles, whofe atoms are of that disjunc L He then them took, and temperi Thei'r contrary diflikes with loveg meagngf i Did place them all in order, and compe To keep themfelves within their fundry rejgn Together link'd with adamantine chaips, Spe,,}', Dif i. Incapable of union a& 1. Difinclination ; abfence of affetio the contrary to fondnefs Enjoy yout miftrefs now, from whom you fe There 's no disjunétion to be made, but b adj Disti'kE. 7. /. [from the verb. You ma Disju'~NcTIVE inju This difcourfe is fo far from doj n. n¢fs to the caufe, that it does it 2 reaf&f;fl:nd joined; feparate Disju''~cTioN. =z f. [from disjunctio Lat.] Difunion ; feparation; parting Your ruin 111 turn detriment Boyle on Colours [disjunéius, Lat. 3ant of IELAEE : [w:nfifi&fgf{" disjointed Young Fontinbras Holding a weak fuppofal of our worth Thinks by our late dear brother's deat Our ftate to be digjoint and out of frame Shakefpeare's Hamlet . m f a i [ To DisLr'ms { Z D m l o f dilaniate ; to tea m ] 75 DisLi'MN. v. a e a c p o o k unpaint; to ftr o t . x v e e e r That which is now a h é i f d i i k m a The rack diflimns 2 As water is in water Cleg an Shakefpe *;'1; i‘)"f"(‘; D:'\‘;',. An |