Dissever
(Dis*sev"er), v. i. To part; to separate. Chaucer.
Disseverance
(Dis*sev"er*ance) n. [OF. dessevrance.] The act of disserving; separation.
Disseveration
(Dis*sev`er*a"tion) n. The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]
Disseverment
(Dis*sev"er*ment) n. [Cf. OF. dessevrement.] Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.
Disshadow
(Dis*shad"ow) v. t. To free from shadow or shade. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.
Dissheathe
(Dis*sheathe") v. i. To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Disship
(Dis*ship") v. t. To dismiss from service on board ship. [Obs.] Hakluyt.
Disshiver
(Dis*shiv"er) v. t. & i. To shiver or break in pieces. [Obs.]
Dissidence
(Dis"si*dence) n. [L. dissidentia: cf. F. dissidence. See Dissident, a.] Disagreement; dissent; separation
from the established religion. I. Taylor.
It is the dissidence of dissent.
Burke. Dissident
(Dis"si*dent) a. [L. dissidens, -entis, p. pr. of dissidere to sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere
to sit: cf. F. dissident. See Sit.] No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.
Robynson Dissident
(Dis"si*dent), n. (Eccl.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established
religion.
The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc as a laudable and necessary opposition
to ecclesiastical usurpation.
I. Taylor. Dissidently
(Dis"si*dent*ly), adv. In a dissident manner.
Dissilience
(Dis*sil"i*ence Dis*sil"i*en*cy) n. The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.
Dissilient
(Dis*sil"i*ent) a. [L. dissiliens, -entis, p. pr. of dissilire to leap asunder: dis- + salire to leap.]
Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.
Dissilition
(Dis`si*li"tion) n. The act of bursting or springing apart. [R.] Boyle.
Dissimilar
(Dis*sim"i*lar) a. [Pref. dis- + similar: cf. F. dissimilaire.] Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as,
the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.
This part very dissimilar to any other.
Boyle. Dissimilarity
(Dis*sim`i*lar"i*ty) n. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity
of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.
Dissimilarly
(Dis*sim"i*lar*ly) adv. In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.
With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay.
C. Smart. Dissimilate
(Dis*sim"i*late) v. t. To render dissimilar.
Dissimilation
(Dis*sim`i*la"tion) n. The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.
