disprofit ablet (disprofitabl)

[OF. OF. des profitable, desproutfitable, des- priv. + profit a ble, profitable.] Unprofitable. It is said, that the thing indifferent is to be left free to use it or not use it, as it shall seem profitable or disprofit a ble unto the conscience of the user. Bp. Ridley , in Bradford's Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 377. disproof (dis-pröf'), n. [Early mod. E. also Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. disproofe , disproufe ; disprove (as if dis- priv. I dispraised him before the wicked. Of such To be dispraised is the most perfect praise. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 2. dispraise (dis-prāz'), n. [ dispraise , v .] Disparaging speech or opinion; animadversion; censure; reproach. Their language is one, and yet exceedingly diuersified, according as they [the Japanese] differ in State or Sexe: or as they speake in praise or dispraise , vsing a diuers Idiom. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 524. The general has seen Moors With as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertran's. Dryden , Spanish Friar, i. There is a luxury in self- dispraise ; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Words worth, Excursion, iv. The long-neck'd geese of the world that are ever hi ing dispraise , Because their natures are little. Tennyson, Maud, iv. 9. =Syn. Disparagement, opprobrium. dispraiser (dis-prāʼzer), n. One who dispraises. Bailey, 1727. dispraisingly (dis-prā'zing-li), adv . By way of dispraise; with disapproval or some degree of reproach. Shak . dispread (dis-pred'), v .; pret. and pp. dispread , ppr. dispreading . [For * dis spread , dis- , in different directions, + spread .] I. trans . To extend or spread in different ways or direc- tions; expand to the full width. [Rare.] Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. IMG:content-2854.png:[blocks in formation] disprejudicet (dis-prej'ö-dis), v. t. [ Those will easilie be so far disprejudic'd in point of the doctrine as to seek the acquainting their understandings with the grounds and reasons of this religion. W. Montague , Devoute E ays, II. vii. § 5. + proof ), after prove.] Proof to the contrary; confutation; refutation: as, to offer evidence in disproof of an allegation. Bent as he was To make disproof of scorn, and strong in hopes. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. dispropertył (dis-prop'er-ti), v. t. [ He would Have made them mules, silenc'd their pleaders, And dispropertied their freedoms. Shak . , Cor., ii. 1. disproportion (dis-pro-por's hon), n. [ disproportion = Sp. despro porcion =Pg. desproporção = It. disproporzione , sproporzione ; as dis- priv. + proportion , n.] Want of proportion of one thing to another, or between the parts of the same thing; lack of symmetry; absence of conformity or due relation in size, number, quantity, etc.: as, the disproportion of a man's arms to his body, or of means to an end; the disproportion between supply and demand. Faultle does the Maid appear; Words worth, Sonnets, i. 23. No disproportion in her soul, no strife. The simple Indians were often puzzled by the great dis proportion between bulk and weight. Never was a package of furs known to weigh more than two pounds in market of Communipaw. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 102. He had yet enough of growing prosperity to enable him to increase his expenditure in continued disproportion to his income. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , ii. 7. Disproportion, some say, is the cause of the keenest misery in the world: for instance, the disproportion between the powers, capacities, and aspirations of man and his circumstances-especially as regards his physical wants. Helps . disproportion (dis-pro-por's hon), v. t. [= F. disproportionner = Sp. Pg. desproporcionar = It. sproporzionare , disproportion are ; as dis- priv. + proportion , v.] To make unsuitable in dimensions or quantity; mismatch; join unfitly. To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. He can perform whatever he strenuously attempts. His words never seem disproportioned to his strength. Whipple, E . and Rev., I. 179. dis prep aret (dis-pre-par'), v. t. [ Now, thinke thou see'st this Soule of sacred zeale, This kindling Cole of flaming Charitie, Disposted all in post. Davies, Holy Roode, p. 12.