One species, D. prostrata, native of Madeira. It is an elegant trailing greenhouse plant.

DISA'NIMATE, DISA'NIMATING,

Dis, and animate, from Lat. animus, Gr. dveμos, breath, spirit. DISANIMATION Fr. desanimer.

To deprive of breath, spirit or life, literally and met.; to dispirit, to discourage, to dishearten.

The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects, and his loyal friends,
As it disanimates his enemies.

Shakspeare. Henry I. First Part, fol. 107. That soul and life that is now fled and gone, from a lifeless carcase, is only a loss to the particular body of compages of matter, which by means thereof is now disanimated; but it is no loss to the whole, it being but transposed in the universe, and lodged somewhere else.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, fol. 38.

We all know how to fight, And (feare disanimating none) all doe our knowledge right. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, book xiii, fol. 173 To the disanimating and discouraging of the rest of the princes of Germany, and other kings and princes in amity and league with his majesty.

State Trials. Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham. True it is, that a glow-worm will afford a faint light, almost a daye's space when many will conceive it dead; but this is a mistake in the compute of death and term of disanimation.

Sir Thomas Brown, book iii, ch. xxvii.

Let not then tasks above the forces of our nature, disanimate those that may expect assistances from his Almightiness, who in the same leaves, where he commands us to perform more than we are able, promises to do in us what he commands; since difficulties are not essential properties of obstacles, but only disproportions to the powers they are to resist.

Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 21. 4 Discourse against Customary Swearing.

I imagined, that though it would not shine in the dark by the contact of the air, to which it had been too long accustomed; yet when once that dispirited or disanimated superficies, (if I may so call it,) that had lain exposed to the air was removed, the more internal part of the matter might not be destitute of a shining power.

Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 472. Appendix to the Aerial Noctiluca, exp; 2. DISANNEX : dis, and annex, (q. v.) from annectere, annerum; (ad, and nectere,) to knit or bend to.

To unbind, unfasten, disunite, disjoin, dissever. That when the provinces were lost and disannexed, and that the king was but king de jure ouer them and not. de facto, yet. neuertheless the privilege of naturalization continued.. State Frials. The Case of the Postnati DISANNU'L, Dis, (augm.) and annul; (from DISANNU'LLER, ad, and nihilum, nothing,) to DISANNU'LLING. bring to nothing. Used as equivalent to annul

To bring to nothing; to take away the being or existence; to deprive of power or efficacy.

This I say, that the law which began afterward beyond. iiii. c. & xxx. yeares doth not disanull the testamente, that was confyrmed afore of God vnto Christ ward, to make the promese of Bible, Anno 1551. Galathians, cħ. iii.

none effect.

And if there be any faute in these four lordes or any rebellion in the vycount, then we disanul all this sayde treatie, and wyll that it stande as voyde.

Lord Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, ch. 181

No bishop made by the Pope, or by any authority derived from the Pope, within the king's dominions, hath any power or anthority to impugn, disannul, or controul any act done by any bishop made by his majesty's authority as aforesaid.

State Frials. The Case of Præmunire in Ireland.

JAQ. Another to her everlasting fame, erected Two ale-houses of ease: the quarter-sessions Running against her roundly; in which, business Two of the disannullers lost their night-caps. Beaumont and Fletcher. The Woman's Prize, act ii. sc. 5 And if any rash or unweighed words have fallen from me, yet these cannot be extended to the disannulling of parliaments, or their priuileges in any kind, which I defended in print, long since, before I could foresee any of this danger threatening me.

State Trials. The Trial of Archbishop Laud.

By strong temptations [he] has been faint-hearted' and denied the truth: like one that disannuls in the height of a fever, the will he made in his composed mind.

Bates. Works, vol. ii. p. 247. The Danger of Prosperity. DISANOINT: dis, and anoint. Fr. oindre; Lat.

DISAPPEAR, DISAPPEARANCE,

DISAPPEARING.

Dis, and appear, from apparere, (ad, and par-ere. Gr. napevat, to be near, to be present.) To go out of sight or view; without or beyond the reach of perception, observation, notice.

After this discourse he disappeared; and the poor man, if he had been at all waking, slept very well till morning, when he believed all this to be a dream, and considered it no otherwise. Clarendon. History of Civil War, vol. i. part i. p. 42. Thus then he disappear'd, was rarifyed; For 'tis improper speech to say he dy'd: He was exhal'd; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden. On the Death of a very Young Gentleman.

Another gentleman lays before me several enormities that are already sprouting, and which he believes will discover themselves in their full growth immediately after my disappearance:

Spectator, No. 553.

When the Seasons cease to smile,
(Wing'd for Memphis or the Nile,)
Charming bird, you disappear
Till the kind succeeding year..

Cunningham. Ode. 33. To the Swallow.

A few days after Christ's disappearance, out of the world, we find an assembly of disciples at Jerusalem, to the number of "about one hundred and twenty :" which hundred and twenty

were, probably, a little association of believers, met together, not only as believers in Christ, but as personally acquainted with the Apostles, and with one another.

Paley. Evidences, part ii. ch. ix. DISAPPOINT, Dis, and appoint; (from Lat. DISAPPOINTMENT:ad, and punctum, a point,) to bring to a point. See APPOINT. Written Dispoint, as in Chaucer, and in Bible 1551.

Not to do as appointed; to remove or displace from an appointment, from an appointed place or station.

Not to do as fixed, settled or agreed upon, at the precise point of time or place agreed upon, expected, hoped for.

Sp. desapuntar; "Fr. desapointer; to disappoint or frustrate; also, to remove or put from an office or

DISANNUL

DISAPPOINT.

DISASSI- My Lord of Rochester, partly by some relapse into his late DUITY. infirmity, and partly (as it is interpreted) through the grief of his mind, is also this second time not gone with the king: some DISAS- argue upon it, that disassiduity in a favorite, is a degree of TER. declination. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 412. DISASSOCIATE: dis, and associate, from adsociare, (ad, and soc-iare, from seq-ui, to follow.) See ASSOCIATE. Fr. "desassocier; to disassociate, break company, dissolve society, separate or part friends." Cotgrave.

As if our mind had not other hours enough to do her business, without disassociating herself from the body in that little space which she needeth for her necessity.

DISA'STER, v. 7 DISASTER, n. DISA'STROUS,

Florio's Translation of Montaign's Essays, (1613.) p. 630. Fr. desastre; It. disastro; Sp. desastre. Skinner and Junius, agree in substance:-Dis-astrum, DISA'STROUSLY. Ji. e. sidus, misfortune, calamity, a malo veluti sidere, as if from an ill star. To disaster is applied, generally,

To cause or produce any ill luck; misadventure, misfortune, calamity or distress; any misery or wretchedness.

Place me where Fortune doth her darlings crown,
A wonder or a spark in Envy's eye;

Or you, outrageous Fates, upon me frown,
Till pity wailing see disaster'd me.

Drummond. Sonnet 61. part i.

To be call'd into a huge sphere, and not to be seene to moue in't, are the holes where the eyes should bee which pittifully disaster the cheekes.

Shakspeare. Antony and Cleopatra, fol. 350.

The dire disaster of that captiv'd king,
So surely seiz'd on by the adverse part,
(To his few friends sad matter menacing)
Struck with pale terrour euery willing heart.
Drayton. The Barons' Wars.

Which prediction of the holy archbishop was seconded by prodigies, and by the disasterous calamities which fell on him and on his house and the whole confirmed for truth.

Baker. Edward I. Anno 975.

For, no sooner came to his eares the news of Probus his election, but he found that heady and precipitate attempts were pleasing in their beginnings, but full of difficulties in their proceedings and most disastrous in their successe.

Speed. The Romans, book vi. ch. xli.
Whilst things were thus disastrously decreed,
Seditious libels every day were spread,
(By such as lik'd not of the violent deed)
That he by force should be delivered.
Drayton. The Barons' Wars, book v.
And thus the snows arise; and foul, and fierce,
All winter drives along the darken'd air;
In his own loose-revolving fields, the swain
Disaster'd stands.

Thomson. Winter.

He stopp'd, and weeping said, O friend! ev'n here
The monuments of Trojan woes appear!
Our known disasters fill even foreign lands:
See there, where old unhappy Priam stands.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneid, book i.

Her maids not mind the loom, nor household care,
Nor wage in needlework a Scythian war.
But cull in canisters disastrous flow'rs

And plants from haunted heaths, and fairy bow'rs.
Garth. Ovid. Metamorphoses, book xiv.

Resolv'd to leave the squire for bail
And mainprize for him to the gaol,
To answer, with his vessell, all
That might disasterously befall.

Butler. Hudibras, part iii. can. 1.

This was a real disaster to us, as by retarding us half a day, it broke the chain of our stages and laid us under the disagreeable

TER. DISBAN

necessity of stopping each ensuing night at a very bad inn, the DISAS good ones being placed at our dining distances. Swinburne. Spain. Letter 27. And here, my argument leads me to shew, that in the pursuit of spiritual acquirements, all things are as promising and easy, as they are discouraging and difficult in the disastrous projects of worldly ambition. Warburton. Works. Sermon 23. vol. x. p. 96. DISAVAUNCE, see DISADVANCE.

DISAVOUCH, to disavow, q. v. compounded of dis, and avouch. There seems no reason for considering avow and arouch to be different words. Skinner hesitates. Cotgrave explains Advouer; to advow, to avouch. The etymology of avow, (q. v.) well accounts for the various applications of both words.

And thereupon they flatly disavouch
To yield him more obedience and support.
Daniel. The History of Civil Wars, book iv.
Dis, and avow, from Lat. vov-
ere, to vow or promise. See
Avow.

DISAVOW, v. ] DISAVOWAL, DISAVOWANCE, DISAVOWMENT. J

To annul a vow, to renounce or abjure, refuse to abide by, that which has been vow-ed, avow-ed, avouched or promised; and then, generally, to disacknowledge, to disallow, to disown, to disclaim.

pe coronede pope

Maye disavowe þat þei dude.

Piers Plouhman. Vision, p. 54.

But being aged now and weary too
Of warres delight, and world's contentious toyle
The name of knighthood he did disavow.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, book vi. can. 5.
Who shall doubt, Donne, where I a poet bee,
When I dare send my epigrammes to thee?
That so alone canst judge, so alone do'st make :
And, in thy censures, evenly, do'st take
As free simplicitie, to dis-avow,

As thou hast best authoritie, t' allow.

Ben Jonson. Epigramme 96. To John Donne. For as touching the Tridentine History, his holiness (says the Cardinal) will not press you to any disavowment thereof.

Wotton. A Letter to the Regius Professor, &c.
Ambitious Turnus in the press appears,
And, aggravating crimes, augments their fears:
Proclaims his private injuries aloud,

A solemn promise made, and disavow'd.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneid, book vii. No, the very corner-stone of the English Reformation was laid in an utter denial and disavowance of this point, [the Pope's supremacy] for which our kings have lain under the papal curse, and the kingdoms been expos'd to the ambition and rage of foreigners. South. Sermons, vol. vi. p. 11.

On the contrary, from his reprinting so often, in essays that bore his [Hume's] name, most of the principles and reasonings contained in it; [Tr. of Human Nature] and never, so far as I had heard, disavowing any part of it, I could not but think that he set a very high value upon it.

Beattie. On Truth. Preface, 22. The assembly in accepting, proclaiming, and publishing this forged alliance, has been guilty of a plain aggression, which would justify our court in demanding a direct disavowal if our policy should not lead us to wink at it.

Burke. Thoughts on French Affairs. Dis, and band. A. S. bind-an, DISBANDING, n. S to tie, to knit, to bind. "Fr. disbander; to loosen, unbind, unbend; also, to casse, to disband, scatter, disperse." Cotgrave.

What savage bull disbanded from his stall,
Of wrath a signe more inhumane could make?
Stirling. Aurora, song 4.

DISBAND The immediate disbanding of all armies and garrisons, saving
the old Cinque Ports; and so those three grand plagues of the
DIS- people will cease, viz.: free quarters, taxations, and excise.
BELIEVE

State Trials. Trial of Col. John Lilburne,
Kings, who disband such needless aids as these,
Are safe as long as e'er their subjects please.

Dryden. Prologue to the Loyal Brother.

In the English war, begun in the year 1665, the states disbanded all the English troops that were then left in their service, dispersing the officers and soldiers of our nation, who staid with them, into other companies, or regiments of their own.

Sir William Temple. On the United Provinces.

The policy of such barbarous victors has ever been to lay low every thing which had lifted its head above the level, or which could serve to combine or rally, in their distresses, the disbanded people, under the standard of old opinion.

Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France. DISBARK: dis, and bark, a stout vessel, from Goth. bairg-an, to strengthen.

"Fr. desbarquer; to disembark, put aland, set ashore." Cotgrave.

When he [Scipio] was arrived at Alexandria, and disbarked, as he came first to land, he went hooded, as it were, with his robe cast over his head. Holland. Plutarch, fol. 358.

Whilst these things thus passed in Italie, Cu. Scipio who
was sent into Spaine with a fleete and armie for sea and land;
having set sail from the mouth of Rhodanus, and compassed the
mountaines Pyrenei, arrived at a place called Emporia : where he
disbarked and landed his forces.
Id. Livivs, fol. 427.

The ship we moor on these obscure abodes;
Disbark the sheep, an off'ring to the Gods;
And, hell-ward bending o'er the beach descry
The dolesome passage to th' infernal sky.
Pope. Homer. Odyssey, book xi.
DISBARK, to strip off the bark, q. v. To bark is
sometimes so used.

Lieutenant Geo. Drummond confirmed what others had told
me, of the great noise, like the discharge of muskets, that they
hear in the wooden houses, whose walls are made of fir-trees
(unsquared, and only disbarked) upon very intense frosts.
Boyle. Expositions and observations made in Dec. and Jan. 1662.
vol. ii p. 730.

DISBECOME: dis, and become; used by Massinger as mis-become, q. v.

Yet be careful

That your compassion of my age, nor his,
Move you to any thing that may disbecome
The place on which you sit.

Massinger. The Fatal Dowry, act v. sc. 2.

DISBELIEVE, DISBELIEVER, DISBELIE'VE.

Dis, and belief, q. v. Belief, and believe or be-life, and be-live, (for so variously are they written) compounded of be, or bi, or by, and live; is that by which men do or should live; a rule of life, a rule to guide their moral and religious conduct in life. To disbelieve, is

To disacknowledge, disallow, disown, disclaim any thing to be a rule of life; and generally, to discredit, to deny to be, to deny to be right or true; to refuse to credit.

For though there have been doubtless in all ages such as have disbelieved the existence of any thing, but what was sensible, whom Plato describes after this manner; That would contend, that whatsoever they could not feel or grasp with their hands, was altogether nothing; yet this opinion was professedly opposed by the best of the ancient philosophers and condemned for a piece of sottishness and stupidity.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, fol. 18.

May I not boldly reply to all the incredulous and disbelievers of the facility of this medium exhibited; say not in thy heart, who

shall thus ascend into heaven? for the word is nigh thee in thy mouth, and in thy heart.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 8. sec. 2. part i. Those who will pretend such kind of grounds for their disbelief of any thing, will never be able to persuade others that the true cause why they do not give their assent, is because they have no reason for it, but because they have no mind to it.

Bishop Wilkins. Of Natural Religion, book i. ch. iii. We know, it often falls out that when a man has once got the character of a lyar, even truth itself is suspected, if not absolutely disbelieved when it comes from the mouth of such an one. South. Sermons, vol. iii. p. 423.

They may without irrationality use arguments to confirm in their doctrine men already acquiescing in the principles of it, and persuaded of their integrity, sufficiency, and authority, that it would be improper to urge against a refractory disbeliever, that is convinced of none of these.

Boyle.

Some Considerations touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures, vol. ii. p. 274.

It is not more evident in the New Testament that Christ died for sinners, than that Christians should not kill one another for the misbelief of any article of revealed religion; much less for the disbelief of such articles as are invented by men, and imposed as doctrines of Christ. Tillotson. Sermon 19.

Is any credit due to the father of lies? Can there be a better reason for disbelieving any thing, than his affirming it to be true. Farmer. On the Demoniacs of the New Testament, vol. iii. ch. ii. sec. 1. note.

The pretended Christian, who leads a bad life, is much more an infidel a downright disbeliever-than he who, though in words he deny the Gospel, leads a moral life.

Gilpin. Sermon 1. vol. iii. As to the additional circumstance of their believing, mentioned in the translation, it is clearly implied in the original; a dread of God's justice being inconsistent with a disbelief of his existence. Farmer. On the Demoniacs of the New Testament, vol. iii. ch. i. sec. 10.

DISBENCH: dis, and bench, q. v.

To remove from a bench or seat.

CORIOL. Your honor's pardon;

I had rather haue my wounds to heale againe,
Then heare say how I got them.

BRUTUS. Sir, I hope my words dis-bench'd you not?

Shakspeare. Coriolanus, fol. 11. DISBEND: dis, and bend, q. v. In the solitary instance below, it appears to mean, misbend, bend amiss.

As liberty a courage doth impart,

So bondage doth disbend, else breake the heart. Stirling. Julius Cæsar. Chorus 3. DISBIND: dis, and bind; Goth. and A. S. bind-an ; Dutch and Ger. bind-en; Swe. bind-a. To free from bands or bondage.

Nay, how dare we disbind or loose ourselves from the tye of that way of agnizing and honouring God, which the Christian church from her first beginnings durst not doe?

Mede. Works, fol. 16. ~ On Texts of Scripture, book i. disc. 2. DISBLAME: dis, and blame, q. v.

To free from blame.

Wherfore I nil haue neither thanke ne blame
Of al this worke, but pray you mekely

Disblameth me if any word be lame.

Chaucer. The second Booke of Troilus, fol. 158.

DISBODY: dis, and body, q. v.

To free from body.

Wherefore they conceive, that the disbodyed soules shall return from their unactive and silent recesse, and be joined again to bodies of purified and duly prepared ayre.

Glanville. Preexistence of Souls, ch. xiv.

DISBELIEVE

DISBODY.