dissentious, dissensious (disenshus)

[ OF. di encieux, discencieux, Either in religion they haue a di entious head, or in the commonwealth a factious head. 1686 see di ert.] To discourse in the style of a di ertation; write di ertations. J. Foster. di ertation (dis-ér-ta's hon), n. [= D. di er tatie = Sw. di ertation = F. di ertation = Sp. disertacion = Pg. di ert ação = It. di ert azione, the affairs of the North. He began to launch out into a long di ertation upon Add is on, The Political Upholsterer. He was easily engaged in a keen and animated di er tation about Lochleven trout, and sea trout, and river trout, and bull trout, and char, which never rise to a fly. Scott, Abbot, xxiv. 2. A written e ay, treatise, or disquisition: as, Newton's di ertations on the prophecies. You would laugh at me, says Philander, should I make you a learned di ertation on the nature of rusts. I shall only tell you there are two or three sorts of them, which are extremely beautiful in the eye of an antiquary, and preserve a coin better than the best artificial varnish. Add is on, Ancient Medals, i. [ di ertational (dis-er-tā'shon-al), a. sertation + -al.] Relating to di ertations; disquisitional. Imp. Dict. di ertationist (dis-er-ta's hon-ist), n. [ sertation + -ist.) One who writes di ertations; a di ertator. Imp. Dict. di ertator (dis'er-ta-tor), n. [F. di ert a teur = Sp. disertador = Pg. di ert a dor, di ertator, Our di ertator learnedly argues, if these books lay untouched and unstirred, they must have mouldered away. Boyle, on Bentley's Phalaris, p. 114. di ertlyt, adv. See disertly. They love his grace but lightly That fill his ears with such di ensious rumours. Shak., Rich. III., i. 3. di entiously, di ensiously (di-sen's hus-li), adv. In a di entious or quarrelsome manner. Chapman.