Dispraise
(Dis*praise"), n. [Cf. OF. despris. See Dispraise, v. t.] The act of dispraising; detraction; blame
censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden.
In praise and in dispraise the same.
Tennyson. Dispraiser
(Dis*prais"er) n. One who blames or dispraises.
Dispraisingly
(Dis*praising*ly), adv. By way of dispraise.
Dispread
(Dis*pread") v. t. [Pref. dis- + spread.] To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread
apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
Dispread
(Dis*pread"), v. i. To extend or expand itself. [R.]
While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky.
Thomson. Dispreader
(Dis*pread"er) n. One who spreads abroad.
Dispreaders both of vice and error.
Milton. Disprejudice
(Dis*prej"u*dice) v. t. To free from prejudice. [Obs.] W. Montagu.
Disprepare
(Dis`pre*pare") v. t. To render unprepared. [Obs.] Hobbes.
Disprince
(Dis*prince") v. t. To make unlike a prince. [R.]
For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . .
And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel.
Tennyson. Disprison
(Dis*pris"on) v. t. To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. [R.] Bulwer.
Disprivilege
(Dis*priv"i*lege) v. t. To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]
Disprize
(Dis*prize") v. t. [Cf. Dispraise.] To depreciate. [R.] Cotton (Ode to Lydia).
Disprofess
(Dis`pro*fess") v. t. To renounce the profession or pursuit of.
His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess.
Spenser. Disprofit
(Dis*prof"it) n. Loss; damage. Foxe.
Disprofit
(Dis*prof"it), v. i. & i. To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic]
Bale.
Disprofitable
(Dis*prof"it*a*ble) a. Unprofitable. [Obs.]
Disproof
(Dis*proof") n. [Pref. dis- + proof. Cf. Disprove.] A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as,
to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other.
Rogers. Disproperty
(Dis*prop"er*ty) v. t. To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [R.] Shak.
Disproportion
(Dis`pro*por"tion) n. [Pref. dis- + proportion: cf. F. disproportion.]
1. Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the
body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
