dis appropriation (disa prop rias hon)

[= F. désap propria tion = Pg. des a propriação; as withdrawing from an appointed use. Specifi dis- priv. + appropriation.] 1. The act of cally-2. The act of alienating church property from the purpose for which it was designed. disapproval (dis-a-pröval), n. [ There being not a word let fall from them in disapproval of that opinion. Glanville, Pre-existence of Souls, iv. =Syn. See disapprobation . disapprove (dis-a-pröv'), v.; pret. and pp. dis- approved , ppr. disapproving . [= F. désapprou- ver = Sp. des a pro bar = Pg. des appro var = It. dis- approvare ; as dis- priv. + approve1 .] I. trans. 1. To regard with disfavor; think wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion or judgment: now generally followed by of : as, to disapprove of dancing, or of late hours. I disapprove alike The host whose a iduity extreme Distre es, and whose negligence offends. Cowper , Ody ey, xv. 2. To withhold approval from; reject as not approved of; decline to sanction: as, the court disapproved the verdict. II. in trans. To expre or feel disapprobation. This circumstance disarranges all our established ideas. T. Warton. We could hardly alter one word, or disarrange one member without spoiling it. Few sentences are to be found more finished or more happy. Blair, Rhetoric, xx. [ dis =Syn. To disorder, derange, confuse. disarrangement (dis-a-ranj'ment), n. arrange + -ment .] The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged. In his opinion, the very worst part of the example set is in the late a umption of citizenship by the army, and the whole of the arrangement or rather disarrangement of their military. Burke , The Army Estimates.