Disciplinal Dis"ci·plin·al adjective Relating to discipline. Latham.
Disciplinant Dis"ci·plin·ant noun [ See
Discipline .]
(Eccl. Hist.) A flagellant. See Flagellant .
Disciplinarian Dis`ci·plin·a"ri·an adjective Pertaining to discipline. "
Displinarian system."
Milman.
Disciplinarian Dis`ci·plin·a"ri·an noun 1. One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar. 2. A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. [ Obsolete]
Disciplinary Dis"ci·plin·a·ry adjective [ Late Latin
disciplinarius flogging: confer French
disciplinaire .]
Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. Those canons . . . were only disciplinary .
Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.
Buckminster.
Discipline Dis`ci·pline noun [ French
discipline , Latin
disciplina , from
discipulus . See
Disciple .]
1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
C. J. Smith. 2. Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part,
Obey the rules and discipline of art.
Dryden. 3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline , are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.
Rogers. 4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate us.
Macaulay. 5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. Giving her the discipline of the strap.
Addison. 6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins. 7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. 8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge. 9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline . Syn. -- Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.
Discipline Dis"ci·pline transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Disciplined ;
present participle & verbal noun Disciplining .] [ Confer Late Latin
disciplinarian to flog, from Latin
disciplina discipline, and French
discipliner to discipline.]
1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. 2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill. Ill armed, and worse disciplined .
Clarendon. His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.
Macaulay. 3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?
Shak. 4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. Syn. -- To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish.
Discipliner Dis"ci·plin·er noun One who disciplines.
Disclaim Dis·claim" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Disclaimed ;
present participle & verbal noun Disclaiming .]
1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. He calls the gods to witness their offense;
Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.
Dryden. He disclaims the authority of Jesus.
Farmer. 2. To deny, as a claim; to refuse. The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed .
Milman. 3. (Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill. Syn. -- To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate.
Disclaim Dis·claim" transitive verb To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone. Disclaim in ,
Disclaim from ,
to disown; to disavow. [ Obsolete] "Nature
disclaims in thee."
Shak.
Disclaimer Dis·claim"er noun 1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces. 2. (Law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill. 3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke.
Disclamation Dis`cla·ma"tion noun A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.
Disclame Dis·clame" transitive verb To disclaim; to expel. [ Obsolete] "Money did love
disclame ."
Spenser.
Disclaunder Dis·claun"der transitive verb [ From Middle English
disclaundre ,
noun , for
sclandre ,
esclandre , Old French
esclandre . See
Sclaundre ,
Slander .]
To injure one's good name; to slander. [ Obsolete]
Discloak Dis·cloak" transitive verb To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [ Obsolete]
B. Jonson.
Disclose Dis·close" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Disclosed ;
present participle & verbal noun Disclosing .] [ Middle English
desclosen ,
disclosen , from
disclos ,
desclos , not shut in, open, Old French
desclos , past participle of
desclore to open, French
déclore ; prefix
des- (L.
dis- ) +
clore to shut, from Latin
claudere to shut. See
Close , and confer
Disclusion .]
1. To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch . The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
Bacon. 2. To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover. The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
Woodward. 3. To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal. How softly on the Spanish shore she plays,
Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown!
Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
Pope. 4. To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs. If I disclose my passion,
Our friendship 's an end.
Addison. Syn. -- To uncover; open; unveil; discover; reveal; divulge; tell; utter.
Disclose Dis·close" noun Disclosure. [ Obsolete]
Shak. Young.
Disclosed Dis·closed" p. adjective (Her.) Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.
Discloser Dis·clos"er noun One who discloses.
Disclosure Dis·clo"sure noun [ See
Disclose ,
transitive verb , and confer
Closure .]
1. The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure. He feels it [ his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure .
D. Webster. 2. That which is disclosed or revealed. Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten?
Macaulay.
Discloud Dis·cloud" transitive verb To clear from clouds. [ Archaic]
Fuller.
Disclout Dis·clout" transitive verb To divest of a clout. [ R.]
Disclusion Dis·clu"sion noun [ Latin
disclusio , from
discludere ,
disclusum , to separate. See
Disclose .]
A shutting off; exclusion. [ Obsolete]
Dr. H. More.
Discoast Dis·coast" intransitive verb [ Prefix
dis- +
coast : confer Italian
discostare .]
To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated. [ Obsolete]
As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie.
G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech.
Barrow.
Discoblastic Dis`co·blas"tic adjective [ Greek ... disk + ... to grow.]
(Biol.) Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.
Discobolus Dis·cob"o·lus noun ;
plural Discoboli . [ Latin , from Greek ...; ... a discu + ... to throw.]
(Fine Arts) (a) A thrower of the discus. (b) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it. » The
Discobolus of Myron was a famous statue of antiquity, and several copies or imitations of it have been preserved.
Discodactyl Dis`co·dac"tyl noun [ See
Discodactylia .]
(Zoology) One of the tree frogs.
Discodactylia Dis`co·dac·tyl"i·a noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... disk + ... finger.]
(Zoology) A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.
Discodactylous Dis`co·dac"tyl·ous adjective (Zoology) Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.
Discoherent Dis`co·her"ent adjective Incoherent. [ R.]
Discoid Dis"coid adjective [ Greek ... quoit-shaped, ... a round plate, quoit + ... form, shape: confer French
discoïde . See
Disk .]
Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Botany) ,
a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.
Discoid Dis"coid noun Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.
Discoidal Dis·coid"al adjective [ Confer French
discoïdal .]
Disk-shaped; discoid.
Discolith Dis"co·lith noun [ Greek ... a round plate +
-lith .]
(Biol.) One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about &frac1x50000; of an inch in its longest diameter.
Discolor Dis·col"or transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Discolored ;
present participle & verbal noun Discoloring .] [ Middle English
descolouren , Old French
descolorer , French
décolorer , from Latin
dis- +
cololare ,
coloratum , to color,
color color. See
Color .] [ Written also
discolour .]
1. To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water. 2. To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon. To discolor all your ideas.
Watts.
Discolorate Dis·col"or·ate transitive verb To discolor. [ R.]
Fuller.
Discoloration Dis·col`or·a"tion noun [ Confer French
decoloration .]
1. The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. Darwin. 2. A discolored spot; a stain. Arbuthnot.
Discolored Dis·col"ored adjective 1. Altered in color; stained. 2. Variegated; of divers colors. [ R.]
That ever wore discolored arms.
Chapman.
Discomfit Dis·com"fit transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Discomfited ;
present participle & verbal noun Discomfiting .] [ Old French
desconfit , past participle of
desconfire , French
déconfire ; from Latin
dis- +
conficere to make ready, prepare, bring about. See
Comfit ,
Fact .]
1. To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field.
Spenser. 2. To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk... to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert. Well, go with me and be not so discomfited .
Shak. Syn. -- To defeat; overthrow; overpower; vanquish; conquer; baffle; frustrate; confound; discourage.
Discomfit Dis·com"fit adjective Discomfited; overthrown. [ Obsolete]
Discomfit Dis·com"fit noun Rout; overthrow; discomfiture. Such a discomfit as shall quite despoil him.
Milton.
Discomfiture Dis·com"fi·ture noun [ Old French
desconfiture , French
déconfiture . See
Discomfort ,
transitive verb , and confer
Comfiture .]
The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection. Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture .
1 Sam. xiv. 20. A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace.
Macaulay.
Discomfort Dis·com"fort transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Discomforted ;
present participle & verbal noun Discomforting .] [ Old French
desconforter , French
déconforter , to discourage; prefix
des- (L
dis- ) +
conforter . See
Comfort .]
1. To discourage; to deject. His funeral shall not be in our camp,
Lest it discomfort us.
Shak. 2. To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive of quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.
Discomfort Dis·com"fort noun [ Old French
desconfort , French
déconfort . See
Discomfort ,
transitive verb ]
1. Discouragement. [ Obsolete]
Shak. 2. Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual
discomfort ."
M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings.
Bp. Hall.
Discomfortable Dis·com"fort·a·ble adjective [ Confer Old French
desconfortable .]
1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [ Obsolete]
Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [ R.]
A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.
Thackeray. --
Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness ,
noun [ Obsolete]
Discommend Dis`com·mend" transitive verb 1. To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. [ R.]
Spenser. By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others.
Jer. Taylor. 2. To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry.
Pepys.
Discommendable Dis`com·mend"a·ble (dĭs`kŏm*mĕnd"ȧ*b'l)
adjective Deserving, disapprobation or blame. --
Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness ,
noun
Discommendation Dis·com`men·da"tion noun Blame; censure; reproach. [ R.]
Ayliffe.
Discommender Dis`com·mend"er noun One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.
Discommission Dis`com·mis"sion transitive verb To deprive of a commission or trust. [ R.]
Laud.
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