disallow (disalou)

[ OF. alouer, allow: see disand allow1, allow2.] I. trans. 1. To refuse or withhold permi ion to or for; refuse to allow, sanction, grant, or authorize; disapprove: as, to disallow items in an account. It is pitie that those which have author i tie and charge to allow and di alow bookes to be printed be no more circumspect herein than they are. Ascham , The Scholemaster, p. 79. They disallowed self-defence, second marriages, and Bentley, Freethinking, § 11. 2. To decline or refuse to receive; reject; dis usury. IMG:content-2736.png:[blocks in formation] He returnes againe to disallow of that Reformation which the Covnant vowes, as being the part i all advice of a few Divines. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xiiii. disallowable (dis-a-lou'a-bl), a. [ dis- priv. + allowable1 .] Not allowable; not to be sanc- tioned or permitted. That he [Murē] had vsed dansing in Asia, where he was gouernour for a season, which deed was so disa low able that he durst not defend it for wel done, but stifly denied. II. n. A disagreeable thing. Vives , Instruction of a Christian Woman, i. 13. I had all the merit of a temperance martyr without any dis allowablene (dis-a-lou'a-bl-nes), n. The state of being disallowable. Ash , of its disagreeables . Kingsley, Alton Locke, xiv. some cruel acts are laudable. The vowels of the word, the initial letter, d, shows that the mood is to be reduced to dari i; the two s's show that the major premise and conclusion are to be simply converted in the reduction; and the letter m shows that the premises are to be transposed. Thus every letter of the word is significant. See barbara. dis analog alt (dis-a-nal'ō-gal), a. [ The idea or image of that knowledge which we have in ourselves is utterly unsuitable and disanalogal to that knowledge which is in God. Sir M. Hale , Works of God. disanchort (dis-angkor), v . t . [ dis- priv. + anchor1.] To free or force from the anchor, as a ship; weigh the anchor of. The saill reised vp, the winde softe gan blow, Anon disancred the shippe in a throw [brief space]. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), L. 3360. dis angelic alt (dis-an-jel'i-kal), a. [ dis- priv. + angelical .] Not Not angelical; a carnal; gro . That learned casuist.. who accounts for the shame attending these pleasures of the sixth sense, as he is pleased to call them, from their dis angelical nature. Coventry, Philemon to Hydaspes, ii. disanimate (dis-an'i-mat), v . t.; pret. and pp. disanimated , ppr. disanimating . [ dis -priv. + animate .] 1. To deprive of life. That soul and life that is now fled and gone from a lifele carcase is only a lo to the particular body of compages of matter, which by means thereof is now disani Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 38. mated. 2. To deprive of spirit or courage; discourage; dishearten; deject. [Rare.] The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, As it disanimates his enemies. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1.