DISABLE. You see I have disabled myself, like an elected Speaker of the House: yet like him I have undertaken the charge, and find the burthen sufficiently recompensed by the honour.

DIS

ABUSE

Dryden. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Abingdon, &e. But still this is only an interruption of the acts, rather than any disablement of the faculty.

South. Sermons, vol. v. p. 174. He that freely brings upon himself a disability of embracing the means of grace, is liable to that reprehension and punishment which is due to a voluntary rejection of them. Id. Ib. vol. viii. p. 392.

When Virtue shunn'd the shock, and Pride,
Disabled, lay by Virtue's side,

Too weak, my ruffled soul to cheer, Which could not hope, yet would not fear. Churchill. The Ghost, book v. For they will be free from that terrene concretion and remains of the carnal part bringing on the inconveniencies, disabilities, pains and mental disorders spoken of in the last section.

Search. Light of Nature, vol. ii. ch. xxi. p. 2. DISABILITY, in Law, is when a person is made incapable to inherit lands or take any benefit which he might otherwise do. This may happen in four ways: by the act of God; by the act of the Law; by the act of the Ancestor; or by the act of the Party himself. Disability by the act of God, is where a person is non compos mentis, or non sana memoria, which so disables him that in all cases wherein he gives or passes any thing or estate from him, after his death it may be annulled or avoided. Disability by the act of the Law, is where a man by the sole act of the Law, without any thing done by himself, is rendered incapable of the benefit of the Law, as an alien born. Disability by the act of the Ancestor, is where there is an attainder of Treason or Felony, by which attainder a corruption of blood takes place, from which cause the children are incapable of inheriting. Disability by the act of the Party, is where a man binds himself by obligation, that upon surrender of a lease, he will grant a new estate to the lessee, and afterwards he grants over the reversion to another, which puts it out of his power to perform it. There are also other Disabilities by the Common Law, as Idiotcy, Infancy, and Coverture, for making grants; and some by the Statute, as Papists are disabled to present to a Church, Officers not taking the Oath are incapable of holding offices, Foreigners, though naturalized, of bearing offices in Govern

ment.

DISABU'SE, v. Dis, ab, uti, usus, to use. See DISABU'SE, n. ABUSE. Fr. desabuser; to free from abuse; from deception guile, imposition; to undeceive.

God forgive the inventors and contrivers of that foul calumny. But by his Almighty Providence, who from heaven reveals secrets, it was not long before that partie was disabused.

Clarendon. History of Civil War, vol. i. Preface, 21. But if by simplicity you meant to express a general defect in those that profess and practice the excellent art of angling, I hope in time to disabuse you and make the contrary appear evidently. Walton. Angler, part i. ch. i.

For although on her head there seems to be crownes of gold, and her haire like the haire of woman, yet her teeth appear as the teeth of lions, and her sting like that of scorpions, so that the deterrings and disabuses appeare together with the dilec

tations.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 10. part i. sec. 4. Let every faithful Minister, therefore of the Church of England, in a conscientious observance of the laws laid upon him by the said church, make it his business to undeceive and disabuse the people committed to his charge.

South. Sermons, vol. v. p. 37.

Knox. Winter Evenings, even. 62. vol. ii.
โ Fr.desaccomoder, to dis-

DISA'CCOMMODATE, accommodate. Cotgrave.

DISACCOMMODATION.

Dis, ad, and commodus; (commodus, as if cum modo, with measure, with moderation.) See COMMODIOUS.

To strip or deprive of measure, of moderation, of proportion, of fitness, suitableness, convenience, advantage; to inconvenience.

They were such as were great and notable devastations, sometimes in one part of the earth, sometimes in another; either by certain rotations, or at least in some places more than in other, according to the accommodation or disaccommodation of them to such calamities. Hale. Origin of Mankind, sec. 2. ch. ix. fol. 217. I hope this will not disaccommodate you.

DISACCO'RD, DISACCORDANCE.

CORD.

Warburton, to Hurd, Letter 192. Dis, and accord, (ad, cor,) to act with one heart. See Ac

To strip, deprive or divest, of accord, of union, of harmony, conformity or agreement; to disagree, to dissent, to differ.

Trewly presence and predestinacion in nothing disacorden, wherefore as I was learned how Goddes before weting and free choice of will now stondon togither, me thinketh the same reason me leadeth, that desteny and free will accorden, so that neither of hem both to other in nothing contrarieth.

Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, book iii. fol. 314. Wherefore I passe ouer, leuynge all the other matyer, whiche also is there rehercid, of the war attwene Vter and Osca, sone of Hengiste; for so moche as it is disacordaunt vnto other wryters. Fabyan, vol. i. part v. ch. c.

For, she was daughter to a noble lord,
Which dwelt thereby who sought her to affie
To a great peere: but she did disaccord,
Ne could her liking to his loue apply.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, book vi. can. 3. DISACKNOWLEDGE: dis, a, and knowledge, from A. S. cnawan, to know, and lecgan, to lay. See Ac

KNOWLEDGE.

To refuse to acknowledge; to refuse to own; to disown.

And so, besides that first sort of schism which was an offence against subordination, i. e. a breaking off from the communion of; and obedience to their lawfull superiors, there may be also another species, referring to government, a disacknowledging or rejecting the due government.

Hammond. Works, vol. ii. part ii. fol. 135. An Answer to Schism disarmed.

DISACQUAINT: dis, and acquaint, (q. v.) to make known to. Fr. "desacconnoitre; to disacquaint, to break or dissolve the acquaintance of; also, to reCotgrave. nounce or forego all acquaintance with."

If that thy sydes, or renes becume
with twitchinge stitche attainted,
Seeke how to chace that griefe awaye
to make it dis-aquaynted.

Drant. Horace, Epistle to Numidius.

Ye must now disacquainte and estraunge yourselfes from the soure old wine of Moses lawe, and drynke in the newe muste of more souder doctrine. Udall. Luke, ch. xvi. DISADORN: dis, ad, and orn-are, to deck, to decoSee ADORN.

rate.

To strip or deprive of ornament; of decoration, of embellishment.

DISADORN.

But when she saw grey hairs begin to spread,
Deform his beard, and disadorn his head,
The Goddess cold, &c.

Congreve. Homer's Hymn to Venus.

DISADVANCE: dis, and advance or avance, (q. v.) to come or cause to come into the van or front. To come or cause to come, from the van or front, to move backward, to retire or retreat, or cause to retire or retreat.

Within the paleis gardin by a well
Gan he and I, well half a daie to dwell
Right for to speaken of an ordinaunce
How we the Grekes mighten disauance.

Chaucer. The second Booke of Troilus, fol. 160.

Yet one of many was so strongly bent

By Priamond, that with vnlucky glaunce,
Through Cambel's shoulder it vnwarely went,
That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, book iv. can. 3.

For when they saw their Lord's bright cognizance
Shine in his face, soon did they disadvance
And some unto him kneel, and some about him dance.
G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth.
Dis, and advantage or
avantage; which may be
referred to the same origin
with avance. See AD-
VANCE, ADVANtage, and

DISADVANTAGE, v.
DISADVANTAGE, ñ.

DISADVANTAGEOUS,
DISADVANTAGEOUSLY,

DISADVANTAGEOUSNESS.

DISADVANCE, above.

To strip or deprive or divest of an advantage, of any thing that may forward or promote the interest or service; of favour, benefit or profit; to injure, to cause a loss or mischief.

Pity of right ought to be reasonable
And to no wight do no disauantage.

Chaucer. The belle Dame sans Mercie, fol, 254,

It was not longe after or bothe kynges with great hoostys drewe into the country, and at the ryuer of Stampis met, where atwene the was foughten a stronge batayll, but by the polycie of Theodobert, Lothayre was put to a disauantage.

Fabyan, vol. i. part v. ch. 124.

Besides it plainly proveth the propernesse of their parts and tallnesse of their industry, who thereby, and by God's blessing thereon, reached so high preferment, though disadvantaged by standing on so low ground of their extraction.

Fuller. Worthies of England, vol. i. ch. xxv.

But as it fell out, the overture proved disadvantageous to the King, and gave the other party new cause of triumph, that they had plainly threaten'd him out of what he pretended to have firmly resolved to do, which disadvantage was improved by the other proposition, that attended it, concerning the militia.

Clarendon. History of Civil War, vol. i. part ii. p. 502.

It is you, that can best excuse the imperfections of it, as knowing not only the more obvious, but the more private avocations and other disadvantages, among which it was penned. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 244. Seraphic Love, The Epistle Dedicatory.

Tis a very disadvantageous bargain for all the conveniences this world can afford, to be deprived of the comforts of our immortal state. Barrow. Sermon 15. vol. iii.

Now if I do any thing unhandsome, or disadvantageous to my self or friends, in order to a treaty, it will be merely my own fault. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 224.

When we come to touch it, the coy delusive plant [sensive plant] immediately shrinks in its displayed leaves, and contracts itself into a form and dimensions, disadvantageously differing from the former; which it again recovers by degrees, when touched no more.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 260. Seraphic Love. This disadvantageousness of figure he [Pope] converted, as Lord Bacon expresses it, into a perpetual spur to rescue and deliver himself from scorn, and to watch the weakness of others, that he might have something to repay them.

Tyers. Hist. Rhapsody on Pope, part v.

This leads me to suspect, that some idle tale or other has been reported to the disadvantage of my sentiments respecting Appius but be assured, whatever you have heard of that nature is utterly false. Melmoth. Cicero, to Marcus Cælius. Whatever disadvantageous sentiments we may entertain of mankind, they are always found to be prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

DISADVENTURE, DISAVENTURE, DISADVENTUrous.

Hume. Essay 6. part i. Dis, ad, and venture, from -venturus, participle future of venire, ventum. To adventure, is to try, risk or hazard, what may be about to

come.

Disadventure is used as misadventure, i.e. misfortune; an unlucky, and unfortunate trial, risk or hazard.

This infortune, or this disauenture

Alone as I was borne I wol complaine.

Chaucer. The third Booke of Troilus, fol. 177.
Thou, wretched man, of death hast greatest need,
If in true balance thou wilt weigh thy state :
For neuer knight that dared warlike deed
More lucklesse disadventures did amate.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, book i. can. 9.
And who most trustes in arme of fleshly might,
And boasts, in beauties chaine not to be bound,
Doth soonest fall in disaventrous fight,

And yields his captiue neck to vietors most despight.
Id. Ib. book i. can. 9.

DISADVISE: dis, and advise, anciently written, avys, and avise, from the A. S. wisan; Ger. wisen, to show, instruct, direct. See ADVISE.

To advise not, or advise or counsel from doing any thing.

I may little doubt of its being counterfeit, by reason of its appearing to me as heavy as a mineral stone of that bulk; though the possessor being loth to expose it to an uncommon trial, I could not so cogently evince, that I had a clear reason to disadvise the purchase of it.

Boyle. Works, vol. v. 464. Medicina Hydrostatica, ch. vi. DISAFFE/CT,

DISAFFECTED,

DISAFFECTEDness,

DISAFFECTION,

Dis, and affect, from afficere; (ad, and facere, to make.) See

AFFECT.

To be or cause to be withDISAFFE CTIOnate. out affection, without attachment, friendly regard, love, good will. To dislike, to discontent, to dissatisfy, to discompose.

But in as much as he is accused of infidelity and impiety to Almighty God, and to be disaffected to the King, therefore this defendant humbly craveth leave to declare his opinion in the thing itself.

State Trials. Proceedings against Henry Sherfield. And if our disaffected palates resent nought but bitterness from our choicest viands, we truly taste the unpleasing quality; though falsly conceive it in that, which is no more then the occasion of its production.

Glanville. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. x.

If a man sins often in several instances it is a habit, properly so called; for although the instances be single, yet the disobedience and disaffection are united and habitual.

Taylor. Polemical Works, fol. 648. Of actual single Sins.

That's to destroy, and not to prove :
As if a man should be dissected,
To find what part is disaffected.

Butler. Hudibras, part ii, can. 1. In order to which I attended him at the Devizes, and from thence went with him to Salisbury; where he seized some quantity of horse and arms from persons disaffected, and with them mounted and armed part of his men.

Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 49. Yet the king had commonly some in these houses that were otherwise minded, and discovered the treachery and disaffectedness of the rest. Strype. Memorials, Anno 1534.

He did it [instilled knowledge] with that ease and gentleness, as raised a love, not a hatred, (a thing that often happens to schoolmasters) an esteem, not a disaffection towards his teacher. Id. Life of Sir John Cheke, ch. viii. sec. 3.

They, according to that climate, were found damnably corrupt, and disaffectionate to the Turkish affairs.

Blount. Voyage into the Levant, 1650. p. 99.

Whatever the indifferent or the disaffected to the church may allege in opposition, I venture to affirm that the unequal size of parishes, and the charge of local population, render the erection of new places of worship, on the establishment, in various parts of the kingdom, a grand desideratum in the present state of our ecclesiastical polity. Knox. Works, vol. vi. Sermon 27.

Cordelia at length arrives; an opiate is administered to the king, to calm the agonies and agitations of his mind; and a most interesting interview ensues between this daughter, that was so unjustly suspected of disaffection, and the rash and misThe Adventurer, No. 122.

taken father.

DISAFFIRM, Dis, and affirm; (affirmare, ad, DISAFFIRMANCE. Jand, firmare, to strengthen.) To affirm, metaphorically, is to speak firmly, resolutely; to declare or assert confidently. To disaffirm, is to undo or annul any thing so affirmed, to contradict, to deny it.

This notable miracle which was sette foorth by them, is better knowen with all that dwell in Hierusalem, then wee shal bee hable to disaffyrme or disproue.

Udall. The Actes of the Apostles, ch. iv.

If it had been a disaffirmance by law they must have gone down in solido; but now you see they have been tempered and qualified as the king saw convenient.

State Trials. The great Case of Impositions. DISAFFORD: dis, and afford; (of uncertain etymology.)

To refuse to afford or yield; to deny, to withhold. Which forc'd from her these words: "My Lord,

Let not my being a Lancastrian bred,

Without mine own election, disafford

Me right, or make my cause disfigured."

Daniel. History of Civil War, book viii.

DISAFFOREST: dis, and afforest; (q. v.) to convert into forest.

To strip of the privileges of forest lands; to render

Dis, and
Fr.
agree.
gre, from gratum, says
age. Fr. desagreer.

Not to agree, or accord, or suit, concur, or please or become friendly; to differ, to be unsuitable, displeasing,

offensive; to be dissimilar or unlike; to be contrary.
It [Loue] is Caribdes perilous
Disagreeable and gracious;

It is discordaunce that can acord,
And accordaunce to discord;

It is conning without science,

Wisedome without sapience.

Chaucer. The Romant of the Rose, fol. 138. Y' people looke as well vnto the liuyng as vnto the preachyng, and are hurte at once if the liuing disagree, and fall fro the fayth, and beleue not the worde.

Tyndall. Workes, fol. 133. The Obedience of a Christian Man. Preache you trulye the doctrine whiche you haue receyued, & teach nothing that is disagreeable therevnto.

Udall. Mark, ch. iv There is no disagreaunce wher is fayth in Jesus Christe, and consente of mynde together in one accorde.

Id. The Acts of the Apostles, ch. viii.

The Frenche Kynge at the request of the Lordes of Guyen, which were not able to defende themselfes, took this matter in hand, and caused the Lorde Delabreth, to certifie his disagrement to the Erl of Huntyngdon, Lieutenaunt for the Kynge of Englande, in the Duchie of Aquitayne.

t

Hall. Henry VI. The eleventh Yere.
And for the divers disagreeing cords

Of inter-jangling ignorance, that fill
The dainty ears, and leave no room for words,
The worthier minds neglect, or pardon will.
Daniel. Musophilus.

Towards this they made all the haste they could, exercising the king's patience every day with some disagreeable message to him, upon their privileges, and requiring vindication, and reparation, and discovery of the persons who had promoted that prosecu tion. Clarendon. History of Civil War, vol. i. part ii. p. 389.

Many who have figured Solitude, having set out the most noted properties thereof, have sought to sweeten all they could the disagreeableness, leaving no roughness or inequality upon the countenance of their character of Solitude.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 16. sec. 1. part i. Sir, is not that a strange answer, in you, that know there is fire to awe disagreers in all matters of faith? Hammond. Works, vol. ii. part i. fol. 605. A view of the Apology, &c.

[2d Act of the Mind is] putting together such single objects, in order to our comparing of the agreement or disagreement betwixt them, by which we make propositions, which is called judging. Wilkins. Natural Religion, book i. ch. iv. Why both the bands in worship disagree, And some adore the flower and some the tree.'

Dryden. The Flower and the Leaf. It rarely happens, that we are competent judges of the good and bad fortune of other people. That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, p. 112.

That from these different relations of different things, there necessarily arises an agreement or disagreement of some things to others, or a fitness or unfitness of the applications of different things or different relations, one to another; is likewise as certain, as that there is any difference in the nature of things, or that different things do exist.

Clarke. On the Attributes, p. 114.

United thus, we will hereafter use
Mutual concession, and the Gods, induc'd
By our accord, shall disagree no more.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, book iv.

It [the Makie] is eaten both cold and hot, and the natives seldom make a meal without it, though to us the taste was as disagreeable as that of a pickled olive generally is at the first time it is eaten. Cook, Voyages, vol. i. book i, ch. xvii.

DIS- The five following are the principal circumstances, which, so AGREE. far as I have been able to observe, make up for a small pecuniary gain in some employments, and counterbalance a great one in DISothers. First the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employALLOW. ments themselves. Smith. Wealth of Nations, book i. ch. x. Bourdaloue is, indeed, a great reasoner, and inculcates his doctrines with much zeal, piety, and earnestness; but his style is verbose, he is disagreeably full of quotations from the Fathers, and he wants imagination. Blair. Lecture 29.

Some of the fathers again displeased him; for they were too DIS severe and rigorous for men of his genius; they disallow'd self ALLOW defence, second marriages, and usury. Bentley. Of Freethinking.

Beza, the chief minister of Geneva, otherwise a great favourer of this sort of men, liked not of their behaviour, and signified his disallowance of it in an epistle to our bishop.

Strype. Life of Archbishop Grindal, Anno 1567.

What hath she then with me to disaguise.

Stirling. Aurora. An Echo. DISALLIEGE: dis, and alliege; (ad, and ligare,) to bind to. Allegiance is applied (Skinner) "to the tie or bond of fidelity, by which we, who are subjects are bound to our Prince." Generally, to any tie or bond of duty or good faith.

To disalliege, to strip, free from, divest of such tie or bond.

And what greater dividing then by a pernicious and hostile peace, to disalliege a whole feudary kingdom from the ancient dominion of England.

Milton. Works, vol. i. fol. 351. Observations on the Articles of Peace, between the Earl of Ormond and the Irish.

Unto the mother, how that euer it fall

Or els he must reason disalow.

Chaucer. A Balade to King Henrie IV. fol. 332.

This vice of inobedience

(Againe the rule of conscience)

All that is humble he disaloweth,
That he towarde his God ne boweth.

Gower. Conf. Am. book i. fol. 15.

Cicero defeding Murē against Cato, which had laid vnto his charge, that he had vsed dansing in Asia, where he was gouernour for a season, which deed was so disalowable, that he durst not defend it for wel done, but stifly denied.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, K. 7.

I have considered of the form of submission, that your worship brought unto me, and find nothing in it, but that in a good conscience I can yield unto; for it requireth not of me any denial or disallowance of the cause of discipline debated in the book, for which I am in question.

State Trials. Trial of John Udall.

For the propositions of letting in part of the king's army, or offering violence to the members of this house, I ever disallowed, and utterly rejected them.

State Trials. Charles I. Proceedings against Waller and others.

Furthermore, Demetrius had many wives that he had married, and all at one time: the which was not disallowable or not forbidden by the Kings of Macedon, but had been used from Philip and Alexander's time.

Sir Thomas North. Plutarch, fol. 786. Demetrius and Antonius.

The scurrilous jest could sooner obtain his tears in penance for it, then the approbation of a smile; and all approaches to this sin he look'd upon not only with an utter disallowance in his will, but a kind of natural abhorrence and antipathy in his lower outward faculties.

Hammond. Works. Life by Fell, fol. 15. vol. i. Heere you see that Theodoret counteth it but a fable, that Cyrill should make any suche sale, and those that say he sold it, declare that it was not for any disalowing of the vesture, but for necessitie of the poore in time of famine.

Whitgift. Defence, fol. 267.

Farmer. Works, vol. iii. p. 289. The least appearance of command, or even the allowance, of such practices in Scripture they pretend not; and yet against those who disallow them they thunder out anathemas.

Secker. Works. Sermon 31. vol. iii.

DISALLY: dis, and ally, q. v. Ally and alliege have the same origin, viz. ad, and ligare, to bind.

Dis, in disally, as in dis-adventure, is used (by Milton) with the force of mis, q. d. Misally; to ally, or bind wrongly, improperly.. The Fr. desalier is to unbind.

The Timnian bride

Had not so soon preferr'd

Thy Paranymph, worthless to thee compar'd,
Successour in thy bed,

Nor both so loosly disally'd
Thir nuptials.

Milton. Samsor. Agonistes, 1. 1022. DISANALOGAL, Gr. dis, and ávaλogía, (àvà, and Moyos.) See ANALOGY.

Not analogous, i. e. having no similitude or proportion.

We have no other measure to frame in ourselves a conception of knowledge, but only the idea, or image of that knowledge, which we have in ourselves, which is utterly unsuitable and disanalogal to that knowledge, which is in God or the manner, or nature of it. Hale. Contemplations, vol. ii. p. 424. DISANGELICAL, Gr. dis, and ayyeλos, nuncius, any one sent, a messenger; particularly applied to the Messengers of God.

Unlike, unsuiting Angels or the messengers of God. You are not then of the opinion of that learned casuist, returned I, who accounts for the shame attending these pleasures of the sixth sense, as he is pleased to call them, from their disangelical Coventry. Phil. to Hyd. Conv. 2. DISANCHOR, Lat. dis, and anchora; Gr. åkvpа, from oy, a hook or crook. See ANCHOR.

nature.

To unfix, draw or haul up the anchor. It. disananchor, and begone." Cotgrave. corare; Sp. desancorar; "Fr. desancre; to weigh

Thei disancred and sailed along the coastes of Sussex, and a small nomber of them landed in Sussex.

Hall. Henry VIII. The thirty-seventh Yere> And when the tide came they disancred, and sayled to Normandy, and came to Depe, and there departed, and deuyded their booty and pyllages.

Lord Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. ch. xxxvii. Then by this admonishment, he and his Troians leauing the new reared citie, disanker from Thrace in quest of behighted Italie.

Warner. Albion's England. Addition to Book 2, Eneidos. Hauing now the wind and tide with him, he disanchored from thence, and drew along the coast vnder the Downes.

Holinshed. Historie of England, book iii. ch. xi. DISANDRA, in Botany, a genus of the class Heptandria, order Monogynia, natural order Scrophularia

DI. SANDRA.