Webster's Dictionary, 1913

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Disespouse transitive verb To release from espousal or plighted faith. [ Poetic] Milton.

Disestablish transitive verb To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

Disestablishment 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 noun Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.

Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs.
Milton.

Disesteem 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.

Disesteemer noun One who disesteems. Boyle.

Disestimation noun Disesteem.

Disexercise transitive verb To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [ Obsolete]

By disexercising and blunting our abilities.
Milton.

Disfame noun Disrepute. [ R.] Tennyson.

Disfancy transitive verb To dislike. [ Obsolete]

Disfashion transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + fashion . See Fashion , and confer Defeat .] To disfigure. [ Obsolete] Sir T. More.

Disfavor noun [ Prefix dis- + favor : confer Old French disfaveur , French défaveur .] [ Written also disfavour .]
1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

The people that deserved my disfavor .
Is. x. 6 (1551).

Sentiment of disfavor against its ally.
Gladstone.

2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

3. An unkindness; a disobliging act.

He might dispense favors and disfavors .
Clarendon.

Disfavor transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disfavored ; present participle & verbal noun Disfavoring .]
1. To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.

Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey.
Swift.

2. To injure the form or looks of. [ R.] B. Jonson.

Disfavorable adjective [ Confer French défavorable .] Unfavorable. [ Obsolete] Stow.

Disfavorably adverb Unpropitiously. [ Obsolete]

Disfavorer noun One who disfavors. Bacon.

Disfeature transitive verb [ Confer Defeature .] To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [ R.]

Disfellowship transitive verb [ See Fellowship , transitive verb ] To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.

An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer.
Freewill Bapt. Quart.

Disfiguration noun [ See Disfigure , and confer Defiguration .] The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

Disfigure transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disfigured ; present participle & verbal noun Disfiguring .] [ Old French desfigurer , French défigurer ; prefix des- (L. dis- ) + figurer to fashion, shape, from Latin figurare , from figura figure. See Figure , and confer Defiguration .] To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own.
Milton.

Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure.

Disfigure noun Disfigurement; deformity. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Disfigurement noun
1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.

2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.

Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse.
Hume.

Disfigurer noun One who disfigures.

Disflesh transitive verb To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [ Obsolete] Shelton.

Disforest transitive verb
1. To disafforest. Fuller.

2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees.

Disforestation noun The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.

Disformity noun [ Confer Deformity .] Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form.

Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies.
S. Clarke.

Disfranchise transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disfranchised ; present participle & verbal noun Disfranchising .] [ Confer Diffranchise .] To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.

Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised .
Fabyan (1509).

He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs.
Thirlwall.

Disfranchisement noun The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.

Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony.
Palfrey.

Disfriar (dĭs*frī"ẽr) transitive verb To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. [ Obsolete]

Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves.
Fuller.

Disfrock (dĭs*frŏk") transitive verb To unfrock.

Disfurnish transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disfurnished ; present participle & verbal noun Disfurnishing .] [ Prefix dis- + furnish .] To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.

I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of
All merit, that can raise me higher.
Massinger.

Disfurnishment noun The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.

Disfurniture noun The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [ Obsolete]

Disfurniture transitive verb To disfurnish. [ R.] East.

Disgage transitive verb To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [ Obsolete] Holland.

Disgallant transitive verb To deprive of gallantry. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Disgarland transitive verb To strip of a garland. [ Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland ." Drummond.

Disgarnish transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + garnish . See Degarnish .] To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

Disgarrison transitive verb To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.

Disgavel transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disgaveled or Disgaveled ; present participle & verbal noun Disgaveling .] [ See Gavelkind .] (Eng. Law) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

Disgest transitive verb To digest. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Disgestion noun Digestion. [ Obsolete]

Disglorify transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disglorified ; present participle & verbal noun Disglorifying .] To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. [ R.]

Disglorified , blasphemed, and had in scorn.
Milton.

Disglory noun Dishonor. [ Obsolete]

To the disglory of God's name.
Northbrooke.

Disgorge transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disgorged ; present participle & verbal noun Disgorging .] [ French dégorger , earlier desgorger ; prefix dé- , des- (L. dis- ) + gorge . See Gorge .]
1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.
Hakluyt.

They loudly laughed
To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.
Dryden.

2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.

Disgorge intransitive verb To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
Into the sea.
Milton.

Disgorgement noun [ Confer French dégorgement .] The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.

Disgospel intransitive verb To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel. [ Obsolete] Milton.