distrustful

[Eng. distrust; -ful ( 1 ).] 1. Full of or inclined to distrust or suspicion; suspicious, mistrustiul; warcing in confidence or faith. "The breach of faith under Servilius and that under Valerius are then insisted on, as reasons for a distrustful policy."-Lewis: Cred. Early Rom . Hist . (1855), ch. xii., pt. i., § 16. 2. Diffident, modest, without confidence. "Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks; But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks.' Pope: E ay on Criticism, 626, 627. 1479 2. To annoy, to discommode, to put from a state of rest or quiet. "Here, sir, I'd have beaten him like a dog, but for dis turbing the lords within." --Shakesp .: Coriolanus , iv. 5. 3. To discompose, to agitate, to render uneasy, to disquiet. "The prince's fellow pa engers had observed with admiration that neither peril nor mortification had for one moment disturbed his composure." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. ix. 4. To agitate, to excite, to cause excitement or disquiet in, to trouble. "Preparing to disturb With all-confounding war the realms above." Cowper: Homer's Iliad, bk. xi. 5. To move or divert from any regular course. "It oft-times may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not; and disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim." Milton: P. L., i. 166-68. 6. To hinder, to interrupt, to molest. 7. To put out of po e ion. [II. 2.] "He might know that he would not be disturbed for a certain number of years by the caprices of a landlord." London Standard. II. Law : 1. To alter, annu., or vary a verdict or decision. 2. To hinder or disquiet an owner in the regular IMG:content-0238.png:[blocks in formation] 1. One who or that which disturbs or causes a disturbance; a dis quieter or violator of peace, quiet, or calm. "The deuill, disturber of concorde and sower of sedicion."-Hall: Richard III . (an. 3). 2. One who or that which excites, agitates, or perturbs. "Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep's disturbers." Shakesp.: Richard III., iv. 2. II. Technically: 1. Law: One who hinders or disquiets another in Law: (For definition see extract.) The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia "The great corrupters of discourse have not been so distrustful of themselves." -Government of the Tongue. Crabb thus discriminates between distrustful , suspicious, and diffident : " Distrustful is said either of ourselves or others; suspicious is said only of others; diffident only of ourselves: to be distrustful of a person is to impute no good to him; to be sus picious of a person is to impute positive evil to him: be who is distrustful of another's honor or prudence #ill abstain from giving him his confidence; he who is suspicious of another's honesty will be cautious to have no dealings with him. Distrustful is a particular state of feeling; suspicious an habitual state of feeling: a person is distrustful of another owing to particular circumstances; he is suspicious from his natural temper. As applied to himself, a person is distrustful of his own powers to execute an office a igned, or hois generally of a diffident disposition: it is faulty to distrust that in which we ought to trust; there is nothing more criminal than a distrust in Providence; on the other hand, there is nothing better than a distrust in our own powers to withstand temptation: suspicion is justified more or le according to circumstances; but a too great pronene to suspicion is liable to lead us into many acts of injustice toward others: diffidence is becoming in youth, so long as it does not check their laudable exertions." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) dis-trŭst-fül-ly, adv . [Eng. distrustful; -ly.] In a distrustful manner; with distrust or suspicion. "The brother's eye Doth search distrustfully the brother's face." Hemans: Vespers of Palermo.