1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill- boding. [Obs.]
The moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.
Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous
termination of an undertaking.
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances.
Shak. — Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. — Dis*as"trous*ness, n.
Disattire
(Dis`at*tire") v. t. [Pref. dis- + attire: cf. OF. desatirier.] To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.
Disaugment
(Dis`aug*ment") v. t. To diminish. [R.]
Disauthorize
(Dis*au"thor*ize) v. t. To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.
Disavaunce
(Dis`a*vaunce") v. t. [Cf. Disadvance.] To retard; to repel; to do damage to. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Disaventure
(Dis`a*ven"ture) n. [See Disadventure, Adventure.] Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.
Disaventurous
(Dis`a*ven"tur*ous) a. Misadventurous; unfortunate. [Obs.] Spenser.
Disavouch
(Dis`a*vouch") v. t. [Pref. dis- + avouch. Cf. Disavow.] To disavow. [R.] Daniel.
Disavow
(Dis`a*vow") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disavowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disavowing.] [F. désavouer; pref.
dés- (L. dis-) + avouer to avow. See Avow, and cf. Disavouch.]
1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and
the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
A solemn promise made and disavowed.
Dryden. 2. To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
Yet can they never
Toss into air the freedom of my birth,
Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's.
Ford. Disavowal
(Dis`a*vow"al) n. The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.
An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear.
Richardson. Disavowance
(Dis`a*vow"ance) n. Disavowal. [Obs.] South.
