Webster's Dictionary, 1913

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Disembowel (dĭs`ĕm*bou"ĕl) transitive verb [ See Embowel .]
1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled .
Cook.

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold.
Thomson.

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [ R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.

Disembowelment noun The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

Disembowered adjective Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [ Poetic] Bryant.

Disembrangle transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + em = en (L. in ) + brangle .] To free from wrangling or litigation. [ Obsolete] Berkeley.

Disembroil transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disembroiled ; present participle & verbal noun Disembroiling .] [ Prefix dis- + embroil .] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.

Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time.
Addison.

Disemploy transitive verb To throw out of employment. [ Obsolete] Jer. Taylor.

Disemployment noun The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.

This glut of leisure and disemployment .
Jer. Taylor.

Disempower transitive verb To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

Disenable transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + enable .] To disable; to disqualify.

The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak.
State Trials (1640).

Disenamor transitive verb To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.

Disenchained adjective Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [ Archaic] E. A. Poe.

Disenchant transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disenchanted ; present participle & verbal noun Disenchanting .] [ Prefix dis- + enchant : confer French désenchanter .] To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion.

Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two
Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.
Dryden.

Disenchanter noun One who, or that which, disenchants.

Disenchantment noun [ Prefix dis- + enchantment : confer French désenchantement .] The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

Disencharm transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + en (L. in ) + charm .] To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [ R.] Jer. Taylor.

Disenclose transitive verb See Disinclose .

Disencouragement noun Discouragement. [ Obsolete] Spectator.

Disencrese intransitive verb [ Prefix dis- + Middle English encrese , English increase .] To decrease. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Disencrese noun Decrease. [ Obsolete]

Disencumber transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disencumbered ; present participle & verbal noun Disencumbering .] [ Prefix dis- + encumber : confer French désencombrer .] To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen.

I have disencumbered myself from rhyme.
Dryden.

Disencumbrance noun Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

Disendow transitive verb To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

Disendowment noun The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

[ The] disendowment of the Irish Church.
G. B. Smith.

Disenfranchise transitive verb To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment noun

Disengage transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disengaged ; present participle & verbal noun Disengaging .] [ Prefix dis- + engage : confer French désengager .] To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.

To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed.
Milton.

Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process.
Transl. of Lavoisier.

Syn. -- To liberate; free; loose; extricate; clear; disentangle; detach; withdraw; wean.

Disengage intransitive verb To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.

From a friends's grave how soon we disengage !
Young.

Disengaged adjective Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness noun

Disengagement noun [ Prefix dis- + engagement : confer French désengagement .]
1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.

It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses.
Transl. of Lavoisier.

A disengagement from earthly trammels.
Sir W. Jones.

2. Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment.
Bp. Butler.

Disengaging adjective Loosing; setting free; detaching.

Disengaging machinery . See under Engaging .

Disennoble transitive verb To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.

An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man.
Guardian.

Disenroll intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disenrolled ; present participle & verbal noun Disenrolling .] To erase from a roll or list. [ Written also disenrol .] Donne.

Disensanity noun [ Prefix dis- + en (L. in ) + sanity .] Insanity; folly. [ Obsolete]

What tediosity and disensanity
Is here among!
Beau. & Fl.

Disenshrouded adjective Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.

The disenshrouded statue.
R. Browning.

Disenslave transitive verb To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.

He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.
South.

Disentail transitive verb (Law) To free from entailment.

Disentangle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disentangled ; present participle & verbal noun Disentangling .]
1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.

To disentangle truth from error.
Stewart.

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.
Clarendon.

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

Syn. -- To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear; evolve; disengage; separate; detach.

Disentanglement noun The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

Disenter transitive verb See Disinter .

Disenthrall transitive verb [ See Enthrall .] To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [ Written also disenthral .] Milton.

Disenthrallment noun Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [ Written also disenthralment .]

Disenthrone transitive verb To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.

Disentitle transitive verb To deprive of title or claim.

Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father.
South.

Disentomb transitive verb To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

Disentrail transitive verb To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [ Obsolete]

As if he thought her soul to disentrail .
Spenser.

Disentrance transitive verb To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

Disentwine transitive verb To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

Disepalous adjective [ Prefix di- + sepalous .] (Botany) Having two sepals; two- sepaled.

Disert adjective [ Latin disertus , for dissertus , past participle : confer French disert . See Dissert .] Eloquent. [ Obsolete]

Disertitude noun [ Latin disertitud ....] Eloquence. [ Obsolete]

Diserty adverb Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [ Obsolete] Holland.