Dislocate Dis"lo·cate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dislocated ; present participle & verbal noun Dislocating .] [ Late Latin dislocatus , past participle of dislocare ; dis- + locare to place, from locus place. See Locus .] To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak.

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated .

Woodward.

And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again.

Fuller.

Dislocate Dis"lo·cate adjective [ Late Latin dislocatus , past participle ] Dislocated. Montgomery.

Dislocation Dis`lo·ca"tion noun [ Confer French dislocation .] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.

2. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations .

3. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

Dislodge Dis·lodge" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dislodged ; present participle & verbal noun Dislodging .] [ Old French deslogier , French déloger ; prefix des- (L. dis- ) + Old French logier , French loger . See Lodge .] 1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.

The Volscians are dislodg'd .

Shak.

Dislodge Dis·lodge" intransitive verb To go from a place of rest. [ R.]

Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round
Lodge and dislodge by turns.

Milton.

Dislodge Dis·lodge" noun Dwelling apart; separation. [ R.]

Dislodgment Dis·lodg"ment noun [ Confer French délogement , Old French deslogement .] The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

Disloign Dis·loign" transitive verb [ Old French desloignier . See Eloign .] To put at a distance; to remove. [ Obsolete]

Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze.

Spenser.

Disloyal Dis·loy"al adjective [ Prefix dis- + loyal : confer Old French desloial , desleal , French déloyal . See Loyal .] Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.

Without a thought disloyal .

Mrs. Browning.

Syn. -- Disobedient; faithless; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; dishonest; inconstant; disaffected.

Disloyally Dis·loy"al·ly adverb In a disloyal manner.

Disloyalty Dis·loy"al·ty noun [ Prefix dis- + loyalty : confer Old French desloiauté , deslealté , French déloyauté .] Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

Dismail Dis·mail" transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + mail : confer Old French desmaillier .] To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

Dismal Dis"mal adjective [ Formerly a noun; e. g. , "I trow it was in the dismalle ." Chaucer . Of uncertain origin; but perhaps (as suggested by Skeat) from Old French disme , French dîme , tithe, the phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must be paid. See Dime .] 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [ Obsolete]

An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day.

Spenser.

2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.

Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned.

Goldsmith.

A dismal description of an English November.

Southey.

Syn. -- Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill- boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.

Dismally Dis"mal·ly adverb In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

Dismalness Dis"mal·ness noun The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Disman Dis·man" transitive verb To unman. [ Obsolete] Feltham.

Dismantle Dis·man"tle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dismantled ; present participle & verbal noun Dismantling .] [ French démanteler , Old French desmanteler ; pref: des- (L. dis- ) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, from mantel , French manteau , cloak. See Mantle .] 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

2. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.

A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain.

Macaulay.

3. To disable; to render useless. Comber.

Syn. -- To demo...sh; raze. See Demol...sh .

Dismarch Dis·march" intransitive verb To march away. [ Obsolete]

Dismarry Dis·mar"ry transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + marry : confer Old French desmarier , French démarier .] To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [ Obsolete] Ld. Berners.

Dismarshal Dis·mar"shal transitive verb To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [ R.] Drummond.

Dismask Dis·mask" transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + mask : confer French démasquer .] To divest of a mask. Shak.

Dismast Dis·mast" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dismasted ; present participle & verbal noun Dismasting .] [ Prefix dis- + mast : confer French démâter .] To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

Dismastment Dis·mast"ment noun The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [ R.] Marshall.

Dismaw Dis·maw" transitive verb To eject from the maw; to disgorge. [ R.] Shelton.

Dismay Dis·may" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dismayed ; present participle & verbal noun Dismaying .] [ Middle English desmaien , dismaien , Old French esmaier ; prefix es- (L. ex ) + Old High German magan to be strong or able; akin to English may . In English the prefix es- was changed to dis- (L. dis- ). See May , intransitive verb ] 1. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed .

Josh. i. 9.

What words be these? What fears do you dismay ?

Fairfax.

2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [ Obsolete]

Do not dismay yourself for this.

Spenser.

Syn. -- To terrify; fright; affright; frighten; appall; daunt; dishearthen; dispirit; discourage; deject; depress. -- To Dismay , Daunt , Appall . Dismay denotes a state of deep and gloomy apprehension. To daunt supposes something more sudden and startling. To appall is the strongest term, implying a sense of terror which overwhelms the faculties.

So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed ,
The lions roaring through the midnight shade.

Pope.

Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul
No fear could daunt , nor earth nor hell control.

Pope.

Now the last ruin the whole host appalls ;
Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls.

Pope.

Dismay Dis·may" intransitive verb To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Dismay Dis·may" noun [ Confer Old French esmai , French émoi . See Dismay , transitive verb ] 1. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay .

Macaulay.

Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey,
And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay .

Mrs. Barbauld.

2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser.

Syn. -- Dejection; discouragement; depression; fear; fright; terror; apprehension; alarm; affright.

Dismayedness Dis·may"ed·ness noun A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

Dismayful Dis·may"ful adjective Terrifying. Spenser.

Disme Disme noun [ Old French See Dime .] A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.

Dismember Dis·mem"ber transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dismembered ; present participle & verbal noun Dismembering .] [ Old French desmembrer , French démembrer ; prefix des- (L. dis ) + Old French & French membre limb. See Member .] 1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

Fowls obscene dismembered his remains.

Pope.

A society lacerated and dismembered .

Gladstone.

By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire.

Buckle.

2. To deprive of membership. [ Obsolete]

They were dismembered by vote of the house.

R. North.

Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.

Dismemberment Dis·mem"ber·ment noun [ Confer Old French desmembrement , French démembrement .] The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m...tilation; division; separation.

The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head.

Macaulay.

Dismettled Dis·met"tled adjective Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [ R.] Llewellyn.

Dismiss Dis·miss" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dismissed ; present participle & verbal noun Dismissing .] [ Latin dis- + missus , past participle of mittere to send: confer dimittere , Old French desmetre , French démettre . See Demise , and confer Dimit .] 1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

He dismissed the assembly.

Acts xix. 41.

Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock.

Cowper.

Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs.

Dryden.

2. To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

3. To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

Dismiss Dis·miss" noun Dismission. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Herbert.

Dismissal Dis·miss"al noun Dismission; discharge.

Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal .

Motley.

Dismission Dis·mis"sion noun [ Confer Latin dimissio .] 1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.

3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

Dismissive Dis·miss"ive adjective Giving dismission.

Dismortgage Dis·mort"gage transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dismortaged ; present participle & verbal noun Dismortgaging .] To redeem from mortgage. [ Obsolete] Howell.

Dismount Dis·mount" intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dismounted ; present participle & verbal noun Dismounting .] [ Prefix dis- + mount : confer Old French desmonter , French démonter .] 1. To come down; to descend. [ Poetic]

But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount .

Spenser.

2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted .

Dismount Dis·mount" transitive verb 1. To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.

Dismounted from his authority.

Barrow.

2. To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.

3. (Mech.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.

4. To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

Disnaturalize Dis·nat"u·ral·ize transitive verb To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

Disnatured Dis·na"tured adjective [ Prefix dis- + nature : confer Old French desnaturé , French dénaturé .] Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Disobedience Dis`o·be"di·ence noun Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience .

Tillotson.

Disobediency Dis`o·be"di·en·cy noun Disobedience.

Disobedient Dis`o·be"di·ent adjective [ Prefix dis- + obedient . See Disobey , Obedient .] 1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.

This disobedient spirit in the colonies.

Burke.

Disobedient unto the word of the Lord.

1 Kings xiii. 26.

2. Not yielding.

Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli.

E. Darwin.

Disobediently Dis`o·be"di·ent·ly adverb In a disobedient manner.

Disobeisance Dis`o·bei"sance noun [ French désobéissance .] Disobedience. [ Obsolete] E. Hall.

Disobeisant Dis`o·bei"sant adjective [ French désobéissant .] Disobedient. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Disobey Dis`o·bey" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disobeyed ; present participle & verbal noun Disobeying .] [ French désobéir ; prefix dés- (L. dis- ) + obéir . See Obey , and confer Disobedient .] Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.

Not to disobey her lord's behest.

Tennyson.

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