Dissimile
(Dis*sim"i*le) n. [L. dissimile, neut. of dissimilis unlike.] (Rhet.) Comparison or illustration
by contraries.
Dissimilitude
(Dis`si*mil"i*tude) n. [L. dissimilitudo, fr. dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.]
1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images.
Stillingfleet. 2. (Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.
Dissimulate
(Dis*sim"u*late) a. [L. dissimulatus, p. p. of dissimulare. See Dissemble.] Feigning; simulating; pretending.
[Obs.] Henryson.
Dissimulate
(Dis*sim"u*late) v. i. To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Dissimulation
(Dis*sim`u*la"tion) n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.] The act of dissembling; a
hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
Let love be without dissimulation.
Rom. xii. 9.
Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is.
Bacon.
Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is.
Tatler. Dissimulator
(Dis*sim"u*la`tor) n. [L.] One who dissimulates; a dissembler.
Dissimule
(Dis*sim"ule) v. t. & i. [F. dissimuler. See Dissimulate.] To dissemble. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dissimuler
(Dis*sim"u*ler) n. A dissembler. [Obs.]
Dissimulour
(Dis*sim"u*lour) n. [OF. dissimuleur.] A dissembler. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dissipable
(Dis"si*pa*ble) a. [L. dissipabilis.] Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.]
The heat of those plants is very dissipable.
Bacon.
Dissipate
(Dis"si*pate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissipating.] [L. dissipatus, p.
p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw.]
1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; — used esp. of the dispersion of things
that can never again be collected or restored.
Dissipated those foggy mists of error.
Selden.
I soon dissipated his fears.
Cook.
The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
Hazlitt. 2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.
Bp. Burnet. Syn. — To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.
Dissipate
(Dis"si*pate), v. i.
