disgraceful

[Eng. disgrace; -ful ( 1 ).] Full of or causing disgrace, shame, or reproach; attended by disgrace; shameful, ignominious. "The disastrous and disgraceful battle of Beachy Head. -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvi. dis-grā çe-fül-ly, adv . [Eng. disgraceful ; -ly .] In a disgraceful, shameful, or ignominious manner; shamefully, with disgrace or ignominy. "He is sure not to come off disgracefully ."-Barrow: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 5. +dis-grāçe-fül-ne , s . [Eng. disgraceful ;-ne .] The quality of being disgraceful; shamefulne ; ignominy. dis-grāç'-er, 8. [Eng. disgrac (e); -er.] One who disgraces; one who causes disgrace, shame, reproach, or ignominy. "Those two disgracers of the human species."-Fielding: E ay on Conversation. *dis-grā-çi-āte, a . [Coined from pref. dis , and Lat. gratia , on analogy of ingratiate (q. v.).] Disgraceful. *dis-grā-çi-ate-ly, adv . [Eng. disgraciate ; -ly.] Disgracefully. "All this he would most disgraciately obtrude."-North: Examen, p. 28. (Davies.) *dis-greg'-āte, v . t. [Lat. dis greg at us , pa. par. of disgrego = to separate: dis away, apart, and grex (acc us, gregem )=a flock; Sp. desgregar ; Ital. 1. To separate, to cut off, to disjoin, to disperse. "Search, sever, pierce, open, and disgregate All ascititious cloggings." More: Song of the Soul, II. iii. 25. 2. To disperse, to scatter, to break up. "Black doth congregate, unite, and fortify the sight; the other (white] disgregate , scatter, and enfeeble it." Howell : Letters , I., vi. 55. *dis-grŭn-tled (tled as teld), a. [GRUNTLE.] Disgusted, offended. "Thither goes MacPhelim, finds his prince a little dis gruntled."-Terræ Filius , No. 48, June 29, 1721. dis-guise, *de-gise, *de-gyse, *des-guise, *des-gyze, *dis-guize, *dis-gise, *dys-gyse, v. t. & i. O. Fr. des guiser ; Fr. déguiser : O. Fr. des = Fr. de Lat. dis -away, apart, and guise =shape, manner, fashion.] IMG:content-0097.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To alter the appearance by any covering or mask. "Disguised himself with ashes upon his face."-1 Kings xx. 38. 2. To hide or conceal by a counterfeit appearance; to mask, to cloak. wished to disguise it as much "The other cla as po ible." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. x. *3. To alter, to make distinct. *4. To alter the form of; to transform. "Uly es wakes, not knowing the place where he was; because Minerva made all things appear in a disguised view."-Pope. *5. To change in manners or appearance by drink; to intoxicate. "The sailors and the shipmen all, Through foul exce of wine, Were so disguised that on the sea They showed themselves like swine." Garland of Delight. B. In trans.: To conceal, to hide, to keep back. dis-gui şe, *dis-guyse, s. [DISGUISE, v.] I. Lit .: A dre or part of a dre intended to disguise or alter the appearance of any person so as not to be recognizable. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, "The gloomy lantern, and the dim blue match, The black disguise." Words worth: Female Vagrant. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0098.png:[blocks in formation] "I was told a tale, that Arm in i us meeting Baudius one day disguised with drink (wherewith he would be often), he told him, Tu, Baudi, dedecoras nostram academiam. Et tu, Armini, nostram religionem." ["Thou, Baudius,. disgracest our academy. And thou, Arm in i us [disgracest] our religion."]-Howell: Familiar Letters (1650). dis-guiş-ěd-ly, adv. [Eng. disguised; -ly.] In disguise; not openly, secretly. "He [Bishop Williams] studied schism, and faction, by his own example, and his pen disguisedly." -Dr. Barnard: Life of Heylin (1683), p. 172.