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i. [Lat. discepto =to contend, to dispute: dis =away, apart, and cap to =to catch at.] To di ent. "I try it with my reason, nor discept From any point I probe and pronounce sound." Browning: Ring and Book , x. 1,350. *dis-çěp-tā-tion, s. [Lat. disceptatio , from dis ceptatus , pa. par. of discepto .] A dispute, a contention, a controversy. "Verbose janglings, and endle disceptations ." Strype: Memorials Henry VIII . (an. 1540.) dis-çěp-tā-tõr, s. [Lat.] He who engages in a dispute or controversy; a disputant, a controversialist. "The inquisitive disceptators of this age."-Cowley. *dis-cěp-ter, *dis-çěp-tre (tre as tēr), v. t. [Pref. dis , and Eng. scepter (q. v.).] To deprive of a scepter; to dethrone, to depose. "Who will beleeue that Holopherne, Who did a hundred famous princes derne, Should be discept ered , slain, left in a midow, By no great Gyant, but a feeble widow?" Hudson: Judith , p. 86. diş-cern' (cern as zern) (1), *diş-cer'ne (1), v. t. & i. [Fr. discerner , from Lat. discerno to dist in 2. The card or cards thrown out of the hand. "According to English rule a player cannot alter his guish: dis away, apart, and cerno =to separate; discard after he has touched the stock." - Field. dis-card-ěd, pa. par. or a. [DISCARD, v.] cogn. with Gr. krinō to separate, to judge, to decide; Sp. and Port. discernir; Ital. discern ere.] A. Transitive: *1. To distinguish; to make a distinction; to dis dis-card-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [DISCARD.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the criminate. verb.) C. As substantive: mortification, instead of shoes or boots. "Teresa is said to have copied the arrangements for the refectory from a convent of Discalced Francis can e es at Valladolid." -H. J. Cole ridge, S. J.: Life and Letters of St. Teresa , i. 231. 2. Spec .: A term applied to the religious of both sexes practicing the reform introduced by St. Teresa into the Carmelite Order about the middle of the sixteenth century. camper.] *dis-cămp', v. i. & t. [O. Fr. des camper ; Fr. déA. In trans.: To raise or remove a camp; to depart from a camp. ( Cotgrave .) B. Trans.: To drive from or out of a camp. "He disc amped him and draue him out of the field."Holland: Suet on i us , p. 242. *dis-căn-der, v . i. [A corrupt. of squander with pref. dis .] To squander, to scatter (?). "By the discandering of this pelleted storm." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , iii. 13 (Folio). *dis-căn-dỹ, v . i . [Pref. dis , and Eng. candy (q. v.).] To melt, to di olve. "The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy , melt their sweets On blo oming Cæsar." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , iv. 12. "In what shape does it constitute a plea for the discard. ure of religion?" - Hayter : Rem, on Hume's Dialog . (1780), p. 38.