i disaffectionate

[Pref. dis, and Eng. affectionate (g. v.).] 1. Without affection: not affectionate. "He had been tormented by a beautiful but disaffection ate and disobedient wife." - Hayley: Life of Milton. 2. Disaffected, unfriendly, not well-disposed. "They, according to that climate, were found disaffec tionate to the Turkish affairs."-Blount: Voyage into the Levant (1650), p. 99. dis-af-firm', *dis-af-fyrme, v. t. [Pref. dis, and Eng. affirm (q. v.).] 1. Ord . Lang .: To deny, to contradict. "Neither doth Glanvil or Bracton disaffirm the antiquity of the reports of the law."-Davies: Preface to Reports. 2. Law: Not to confirm; to annul, to reverse, as the decision of a lower court. 3. To repudiate, to disallow, as a contract. affirmance (q. v.).) dis-af-firm-ançe, s. IMG:content-0012.png:[blocks in formation] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of reducing from the state of a forest to that of common land.