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[Eng. dismi ; -al.] I. Ordinary Language: "And, as on the sacred mi al He recorded their dismi al, Death relaxed his iron features." Long fellow: Norman Baron. IMG:content-0125.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of dismi ing or sending away; a dismi al, leave to depart. "His words well weighed, the general voice approved Pope: Homer's Ody ey, xiii. 62, 63. Letters of dismi ion : In this country, the same as letters dimi ory (q. v.), under cap. DIMISSORY. 2. Something sent down or discharged. "It seems a soft dismi ion from the sky." Dryden: Hind and Panther, i. 146. 3. The act of dismi ing or discharging from office or employment; a discharge. "Dismi ion from the service would have been felt by most of them as a great calamity." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. viii. 4. The state of being dismi ed or discharged; a discharge. "Even the severe discipline of ancient Rome permitted a soldier, after many campaigns, to claim his dismi ion ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvi. II. Law : The act of dismi ing a bill or motion. dis-mis-sive, a . [Eng. dismi ; -ive.] Containing a dismi al; dismi ing, sending away. "The old dismi ive 'Ilicet' is cried By the town voice, and all to feasts return." Davenant: Gondibert, ii. 5. *dis-mit', *dis-mitte, v . t. [Lat. dis = away, apart, and mit to =to send.] [DISMISS.] 1. To send away. "Bretheren dismittiden Paul and Silas into Beroai." Wycliffe: Deeds , xvii. 19. 2. To deliver up. "He hadde nede to dismitte to hem oon by the feeste day."-Wycliffe. Luke xxiii. 17 *dis-mortgage (mortgage as mor-gig), v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. mortgage (q. v.).] To redeem from mortgage; to pay off a mortgage on. "He dis mortgaged the crown demesnes, and left behind a ma of gold." -Howel : Vocal Forest. *dis-mortgaged (mortgaged as mor-gigd), pa. par.ora. [DIS MORTGAGE.] *dis-mortgaging (mortgaging as mor-giging), pr . par ., a. & 8. [DIS MORTGAGE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act or proce of redeeming or IMG:content-0126.png:[blocks in formation] *1. To throw or cause to come down from a height or elevation; to bring down, to lower. "Xerxes, the Persian king, yet saw I there, With his huge host that drank the rivers dry, Dismounted hills, and made the vales appear." Sackville: Mirror for Magistrates (Induct.). 2. To throw down or remove anything from a support, or that on which it is mounted. "We found six great pieces of bra ordnance mounted upon their carriages, some demy, some whole culverins; we presently dismounted them."-Sir F. Drake Revived, p. 10. *3. To cause to alight from a horse. 4. To take down or to pieces. "An observatory cannot be mounted and dismounted at every step."-Herschel: Astronomy (1858), § 213. *5. To depose. "Saul when in gratefully and injuriously dismounted from his authority."- Barrow : Sermons , vol. i., ser. 25. *6. To cause to descend from an eminence or place of honor; to bring down. "Dismount her, like the serpent at the fall." Young: Night Thoughts, vii. 1,191. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia dismounted *7. To draw from a scabbard. "Dismount thy tuck."- Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, iii. 4. *8. To lower. "His watery eyes he did dismount ." Shakesp.: Lover's Complaint , 281. dis-mount-ěd, pa . par . or a . [DISMOUNT.] dis-mount-Ing, pr . par . , a . & 8. [DISMOUNT.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. The act of alighting from a horse, . 1452 dis-o-bê yed, pa. par. or a. [DISOBEY.] disorder disobeys. IMG:content-0128.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: The act of refusing obedience to; disobedience. dis-ob-li-gå-tion, s. [Pref. dis , and Eng. obli- gation (q. v.). 1. The act of disobliging; an act of unkindne ; riage, support, . dismounting-battery, s. "It would be such a disobligation to the prince that he would never forget it." Clarendon: Civil War, vol. i., IMG:content-0129.png:[blocks in formation] "So disnatured are they that they neglect their own flesh and blood, to listen to accounts of your wit and spirit."-David Garrick: Correspondence, ii. 254 (ed. Han nah More). *dis-něst', v. t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. nest (q. v.).] To dislodge or drive as from a nest. *dis-nō-ble, a. [Pref. dis , and English noble (q.v.).] Ignoble, mean. "A disnoble advocat and defender of causes." -P. Hol land: Ammianus Mar cell in us (1609).