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Show Fairy Queen Unawares fupris'd Such ftand in narrow lanes And beat our watch, and rob our paffengers They cool'd in zeal "Thenceforth fhall pra&tife how to live fecure Worldly, or diffolute, on what their lord Milton Shall leave them to enjoy The true fpirit of religion banifhes indeed al levity of behaviour, all vicious and diffo/ute mirth but, in exchange, fills the mind with a perpetua Th Addifon's Spectator beauty of religion the moft diffo/ute ar forced to acknowledge Di‘ssoruTery adv Rogers [from difolute. debauchery Loofely ; i firaint withou re Whereas men have lived diffo/utely and unrighteoufly, shou haft tormented them wit abominations their ow Wifdom Da'ssoLuTEnEss. n /i [from difolue. Loofenefs ; laxity of manners ; debauchery If we look into the common management, w thall have reafon to wonder, in the great djffoluzenefs of manners which the world complains of that there are any footfteps at all left of virtue Locke Dissovv'tioN. . /. [diffolutio, Latin, 1. The a& of liquefying by heat or moifture 2. The ftate of being liquefied - 3. The ftate of melting away; liquefaction I am as fubje® to heat as butter; 2 man o continual diffo/ution and thaw Shakefpeare's Merry Wives of Windfor 4. Deftrution of any thing by the feparation of its parts The elements were at perfe® union in hi body; and their contrary qualities ferved not fo the diffo/ution of the compound of the compofure but the variet South 5. The fubftance formed by diffolving an body Weig iro an aqua-forti feverally the diffolve the iron in the aqua-fortis, and weigh th diffolution Bacon 6. Death ; the refolution of the body int its conftituent elements The life of man is always either increafing towards ripenefs and perfection, or declining an decreafing towards rottennefs and diffifution Raleigh's Hiftory We expecte Tmmediate diffolution, which we though ‘Was meant by death that day, Milrun's Par. Lop 7. Deftru&tion He determined to make a prefen the world He thence fhall come diffolution o Hocker When this world's diffilution fhall be ripe. Milton Would they have mankind lay afide all care o provifions by agriculture or commerce, becauf poffibly the diffolution of the world may happen th next moment and wandering ployments Di'starr. n f. [ozep, Saxon. 1. The ftaff from which the flax 1s draw in fpinning unapt for noble or fpiritual em Bp. Taylor Bentley 8. Breach or ruin of any thing compaéte or united Is a man confident of wealth and power Why let him read of thofe ftrange unexpeéte diffolutions of the great monarchies and governments of the world South 9. The a& of breaking up an affembly Io. Loofenefs of manners ; laxity ; remifinefs ; diflipation the fpirits, and leaves a kind of diffi/ution upon al the faculties South An univerfal diffalution of manners began to prevail, and a profeficd difregard tq all fixed principles In fum, proud Boreas never ruled fleet Who Neptune's web on danger's diffaff {pins With greater pow'r than fhe did make them wen Each way, as fhe thatage's praife did bend. Sidney Weave thou to end this web which I begin Atterbury DI'SSONANCE #. / [diffonans Lat Ran Coll eur dog, and Falbot, with the band And Malkin, with her diffaff in her hand. Dryd. 2. Itis ufed as an emblem of the femal So the French fay, The crown o fex France never falls to the diffaff Still govern thou my fong But drive far oft the barbarous diffonanc Of Bacchus and his revellers Milton The Latin tongue is a dead language, and non can decide with confidence on the harmony o diffonance of the numbers of thefe times Garth's Preface to Ovid adj Fairf I will the diffaff hold, come thou and fpin diffonance, Fr.] A mixture of harfh, unpleafing, unharmonious founds; unfuitablenefs of one found to another Dr'ssonanw Dryden iambique, it matters not of the fpirit of a man, and makes it loofe, foft Fame males the mind loofe and gayith, fcatter Whilé he, young, wanton, and effeminate boy Takes on the point of honour, to fuppor Shakefpeare's Richard 11 So diffolute a crew A man of little gravity, or abftinence in pleafures; yea, fometimes almoft diffolute. Hayward ferenity they be diffyllables; whether fpondee, trochee, o A longing after fenfual pleafures is a diffolutio A giant huge and tall Who him difarmed, difolute, difmay'd D15 ADG D1 In m civil governmen fom fay the crofier fome fay the diffaff, was too bufy Howel's England's Tears See my royal mafter murder'd in the throne. Bryd His crown wfurp'd, diffaf [diffonans, Lat. DisTAFF-THISTLE. # /. A fpecies o thiftle 7o DistA'IN, @. a. [dis and flain. 1. To ftain ; to tinge with an adventitious colour 1. Harfh ; unharmonious Dire were the firain, and diffonant, to fin The cruel raptures of the favage kind. ~ Thom/on 2. Incongruous ; difagreeing: with fiom What can be more diffonant from reafon an nature, than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, fhould fhew himfelf unkind and inhuman Hakewill on Providence Nor ceas'd his arrows, till. the fhady plai Sev'n mighty bodies with.their.blood.diffair 3. With z0: lefs properly Dryden's Virgil Place on their heads that erown difain'd wit When confcience reports any thing diffonant t truth, it obliges no more than the falfchood reported by it South ore ‘Which thofe dire-hands from my flain father tore 7o DISSUADE. w. a. [diffuades, Lat. 1. To dehort ; to divert by reafon or importunity from any thing We fubmit to Cefar, promifin To pay our wonted tribute, from the whic We were difluaded by our wicked queen Shakefpeare's Cymbeline 2. To reprefent any thing as unfit or dan- Pope | 2. 'Foblot ; to fully with infamy He underftood That lady, whom I had:to-me adign'd Had both diffain'd her honourable blood And eke the faith which fhe to me did bind Fairy RQuecn The worthinefs of praife diffains his worth, If he that 's prais'd himfelf bring the praife forth. Shakefpeare gerous Some theologicians defile places ereed tor re This would be worfe War therefore, open or conceal'd, alik My voice diffiades ligion Miltow's Paradife Lof Not diffident of thee, do I diffuad Afikon's Par. Lof Thy abfence from my fight I'd fain deny this with, which thou haft made Or, whatI can't deny, would fain diffzade Addifor's Owid Dissva"per. # fi [from diffuade.] H that diffuades. Dissva'sion. . [ [diffuafio, Lat.] Ur- gency of reafon or importunity againf any thing ; dehortation by defendin oppreflions diffainin theis prefeflions by publifhing odious untruths upon reSir Fo Hayward. port of others DI'STANCE. . f. [difance, Fr. diffantia Latin. 1. Diffance is {pace confidered barely i length between any two beings, without confidering any thing elfe between them Loctke It is very cheap, notwithitanding the great di/ tance between the vineyards and the towns that fel Addifon on Italy the wine Endeavour to preferve yourfelf from relapfe b fuch diffafions from love, as its votaries call invedtives againft it Boyle ther's houfe, he had frequent apportunities of fee The meannefs, or the fin, will {carce be djffuaSiwes to thofe who have reconciled themfelves t We come to fee fight; to:fee thy pafs, th ftock; thy reveife, thy diffance Shakefpeare's Merry Wives of Wind/or As he lived but a few miles diffarce trom her fa Addifon ing-her Dissua'sive. adj. [from diffuade.] De- 2. Remotenefs in place hortatory ; tending to divert or dete Ceefar is ftill difpos'd to give us terms from any purpofe And waits at diffance tillhe hears from Cato. A4dd Thefe dwell at fuch convenient diffance Dissva'sive. #. /. Dehortation; arguTha eac ma giv hi frien afliftance Prior ment or importunity employed to- tur the mind off from any purpofe or pur- "3. The fpace kept between two antagonilt in fencing {uit both Gowernment of the Tongue 70 Dissu'NDER. w. a. [dis and junder See Di1sseThis is a barbarous word vir. To funder to feparate But when her draught the fea and earth djffunder'd The troubled bottoms turn'd up, and fhe thunder'd Chapman Dissy'LLaBLE. m [ [docinabe. word of two fyllables No ma is tied, in moder poetry, to obferv any farther rule in the feet of his verfe, but tha 4. Contrariety; oppofition Banquo was your enemy So is.he mine ; and in fuch bloody diffance That every minute of his being thruft Againt my near'ft of life. Shakefpeare''s Mackzth 5. A fpace marked on the courfe where horfes run This was the horfe that ran the whole field ou of diffancey and won the race L Effrange 6. Space of time Yoou muft do it by diffance of timee. 2 Efdrov. 4 4 Lhel |