Disallow transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disallowed ; present participle & verbal noun Disallowing .] [ Prefix dis- + allow : confer Old French desalouer , desloer , to blame, dissuade.] To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God.

1 Pet. ii. 4.

That the edicts of Cæsar we may at all times disallow , but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject.

Milton.

» This verb was sometimes followed by of ; as, "What follows, if we disallow of this?" Shak. See Allow .

Syn. -- To disapprove; prohibit; censure; reject.

Disallowable adjective Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness , noun

Disallowance noun The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.

Disally transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + ally : confer French désaltier .] To part, as an alliance; to sunder. [ R.] " Disallied their nuptials." Milton.

Disanchor transitive verb & i. [ Prefix dis- + anchor : confer French désancrer .] To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. [ Obsolete] Heywood.

Disangelical adjective Not angelical. [ R.] " Disangelical nature." Coventry.

Disanimate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disanimated ; present participle & verbal noun Disanimating .]
1. To deprive of life. [ R.] Cudworth.

2. To deprive of spirit; to dishearten. Shak.

Disanimation noun
1. Privation of life. [ R.] Sir T. Browne.

2. The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.

Disannex transitive verb To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of. State Trials (1608).

Disannul transitive verb To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?

Isaiah xiv. 27.

» The prefix in this word an its derivatives is intensive, and not negative.

Disannuller noun One who disannuls.

Disannulment noun Complete annulment.

Disanoint transitive verb To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Disapparel transitive verb [ See Apparel , transitive verb ] [ Prefix dis- + apparel : confer Old French desapareiller .] To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.

Drink disapparels the soul.

Junius (1635).

Disappear intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disappeared ; present participle & verbal noun Disappearing .]
1. To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

2. To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared .

Disappearance noun The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.

Disappearing present participle & verbal noun of Disappear .

Disappearing carriage (Ordnance) , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing carriage in the coast artillery of the United States army is the Buffington-Crozier carriage , in which the gun trunnions are secured at the upper and after ends of a pair of heavy levers, at the lower ends of which is attached a counterweight of lead. The levers are pivoted at their middle points, which are, with the top carriage, permitted restrained motion along the slightly inclined chassis rails. The counterweight is held in place by a pawl and ratchet. When the gun is loaded the pawl is released and the counterweight sinks, raising the gun to the firing position above the parapet. The recoil following the discharge returns the gun to the loading position, the counterweight rising until the pawl engages the ratchet.

Disappendency noun A detachment or separation from a former connection. [ R.]

Disappendent adjective Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [ R.]

Disappoint transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disapointed ; present participle & verbal noun Disappointing .] [ Old French desapointier , French désappointer ; prefix des- (L. dis- ) + apointier , French appointier , to appoint. See Appoint .]
1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed ; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.

I was disappointed , but very agreeably.

Macaulay.

» Disappointed of a thing not obtained; disappointed in a thing obtained.

2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.

His retiring foe
Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.

Addison.

Syn. -- To tantalize; fail; frustrate; balk; baffle; delude; foil; defeat. See Tantalize .

Disappointed adjective
1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

2. Unprepared; unequipped. [ Obsolete]

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed , unaneled.

Shak.

Disappointment noun [ Confer French désappointement .]
1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.

If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them.

Addison.

In disappointment thou canst bless.

Keble.

2. That which disappoints.

Syn. -- Miscarriage; frustration; balk.

Disappreciate transitive verb [ See Appreciate .] To undervalue; not to esteem. -- Dis`ap*pre`ci*a"tion noun

Disapprobation noun [ Prefix dis- + approbation : confer French désapprobation . Confer Disapprove .] The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps.

Burke.

Disapprobatory adjective Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

Disappropriate adjective (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.

The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate , two ways.

Blackstone.

Disappropriate transitive verb
1. To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton.

2. (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.

Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated .

Blackstone.

Disappropriation noun The act of disappropriating.

Disapproval noun Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

Disapprove transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disapproved ; present participle & verbal noun Disapproving .] [ Prefix dis- + approve : confer French déapprouver . Confer Disapprobation .]
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.

2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court- martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.

» This verb is often followed by of ; as, to disapprove of an opinion, of such conduct. See Approve .

Disapprover noun One who disapproves.

Disapprovingly adverb In a disapproving manner.

Disard noun See Dizzard . [ Obsolete] Burton.

Disarm transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disarming ; present participle & verbal noun Disarming .] [ Middle English desarmen , French désarmer ; prefix dés- (L. dis- ) + armer to arm. See Arm .]
1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

Security disarms the best-appointed army.

Fuller.

The proud was half disarmed of pride.

Tennyson.

2. To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

Disarmament noun [ Confer French désarmement .] The act of disarming.

Disarmature noun [ Prefix dis- + armature .] The act of divesting of armature. [ R.]

Disarmed adjective
1. Deprived of arms.

2. (Her.) Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks. Cussans.

Disarmer noun One who disarms.

Disarrange transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disarranged ; present participle & verbal noun Disarranging .] [ Prefix dis- + arrange : confer French désarranger .] To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

Disarrangement noun The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

Disarray transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disarrayed ; present participle & verbal noun Disarraying .] [ Prefix dis- + array , v.: confer Old French desarroyer , desarreier .]
1. To throw into disorder; to break the array of.

Who with fiery steeds
Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged.

Fenton.

2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe.

So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed .

Spenser.

Disarray noun [ Confer French désarroi .]
1. Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

Disrank the troops, set all in disarray .

Daniel.

2. Confused attire; undress. Spenser.

Disarrayment noun Disorder. [ R.] Feltham.

Disarticulate transitive verb To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion noun

Disarticulator noun One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

Disassent intransitive verb To dissent. [ Obsolete]

Disassent noun Dissent. [ Obsolete] E. Hall.

Disassenter noun One who disassents; a dissenter. [ Obsolete] State Trials (1634).

Disassiduity noun Want of assiduity or care. [ R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Disassimilate transitive verb (Physiol.) To subject to disassimilation.