discussional (diskushonal)

[ discu ive (dis-kus'iv), a. and n. [ If ought be obstructed, he puts in his opening and dis cu ive confections. Milton , Church-Government, ii. 3. 2. Having the power to settle or bring to a conclusion; determinative; decisive. [Rare.] II. n. [= F. discu if .] A medicine that disperses or scatters; a discutient. discutient (dis-kūʼshient), a . and n. [ dis cutien(t-)s, ppr. of discutere , shake apart, disperse, scatter, etc.: see discu .] I. a. Dispersing morbid matter. I then made the fomentation more discutient by the addition of salt and sulphur. Wiseman , Surgery, i. 7. II. n. A medicine or an application which disperses a swelling or an effusion. disdain (dis-dān'), v. [ His clownish gifts and curtsies I disdaine . Spenser , Shep. Cal., January. Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Job xxx. 1. The bloody proclamation to escape taught me to shift Into a madman's rags; to a ume a semblance That very dogs disdain'd . Shak., Lear, v. 3. There is nothing that my Nature disdains more than to be a Slave to Silver or Gold. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 60. 21. To fill with scorn or contempt. IMG:content-2782.png:[blocks in formation] B. Jonson, Discoveries.