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Disemploy Dis`em·ploy" transitive verb To throw out of employment. [ Obsolete] Jer. Taylor.

Disemployment Dis`em·ploy"ment noun The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.

This glut of leisure and disemployment .

Jer. Taylor.

Disempower Dis`em·pow"er transitive verb To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

Disenable Dis`en·a"ble 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 Dis`en·am"or transitive verb To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.

Disenchained Dis`en·chained" adjective Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [ Archaic] E. A. Poe.

Disenchant Dis`en·chant" 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 Dis`en·chant"er noun One who, or that which, disenchants.

Disenchantment Dis`en·chant"ment noun [ Prefix dis- + enchantment : confer French désenchantement .] The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

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

Disenclose Dis`en·close transitive verb See Disinclose .

Disencouragement Dis`en·cour"age·ment noun Discouragement. [ Obsolete] Spectator.

Disencrese Dis`en·crese" intransitive verb [ Prefix dis- + Middle English encrese , English increase .] To decrease. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Disencrese Dis`en·crese" noun Decrease. [ Obsolete]

Disencumber Dis`en·cum"ber 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 Dis`en·cum"brance noun Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

Disendow Dis`en·dow" transitive verb To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

Disendowment Dis`en·dow"ment noun The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

[ The] disendowment of the Irish Church.

G. B. Smith.

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

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

Disengagement Dis`en·gage"ment 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 Dis`en·ga"ging adjective Loosing; setting free; detaching.

Disengaging machinery . See under Engaging .

Disennoble Dis`en·no"ble transitive verb To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.

An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man.

Guardian.

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

Disensanity Dis`en·san"i·ty noun [ Prefix dis- + en (L. in ) + sanity .] Insanity; folly. [ Obsolete]

What tediosity and disensanity
Is here among!

Beau. & Fl.

Disenshrouded Dis`en·shroud"ed adjective Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.

The disenshrouded statue.

R. Browning.

Disenslave Dis`en·slave" transitive verb To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.

He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.

South.

Disentail Dis`en·tail" transitive verb (Law) To free from entailment.

Disentangle Dis`en·tan"gle 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 Dis`en·tan"gle·ment noun The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

Disenter Dis`en·ter" transitive verb See Disinter .

Disenthrall Dis`en·thrall" transitive verb [ See Enthrall .] To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [ Written also disenthral .] Milton.

Disenthrallment Dis`en·thrall"ment noun Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [ Written also disenthralment .]

Disenthrone Dis`en·throne" transitive verb To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.

Disentitle Dis`en·ti"tle transitive verb To deprive of title or claim.

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

South.

Disentomb Dis`en·tomb" transitive verb To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

Disentrail Dis`en·trail" transitive verb To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [ Obsolete]

As if he thought her soul to disentrail .

Spenser.

Disentrance Dis`en·trance" transitive verb To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

Disentwine Dis`en·twine" transitive verb To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

Disepalous Di·sep"al·ous adjective [ Prefix di- + sepalous .] (Botany) Having two sepals; two- sepaled.

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

Disertitude Dis·er"ti·tude noun [ Latin disertitud ....] Eloquence. [ Obsolete]

Diserty Dis·ert"y adverb Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [ Obsolete] Holland.

Disespouse Dis`es·pouse" transitive verb To release from espousal or plighted faith. [ Poetic] Milton.

Disestablish Dis`es·tab"lish transitive verb To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

Disestablishment Dis`es·tab"lish·ment noun 1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

2. The condition of being disestablished.

Disesteem Dis`es·teem" noun Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.

Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs.

Milton.

Disesteem Dis`es·teem" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disesteemed ; present participle & verbal noun Disesteeming .] 1. To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.

But if this sacred gift you disesteem .

Denham.

Qualities which society does not disesteem .

Ld. Lytton.

2. To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor. [ Obsolete]

What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed,
Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed ?

B. Jonson.

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