disinclination (dis ink lin ash on)

[ Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. =Syn. Indisposition, unwillingne , reluctance, hesitation, repugnance. disincline (dis-in-klin'), v. t.; pret. and pp. dis inclined, ppr. disinclining. [ The Provençal poets willingly established themselves under a prince full of knightly accomplishments, and yet not disinclined to the arts of peace. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 277. Disinclined to help from their own store The opprobrious wight. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 129. [This).. produced so much effect upon the. Committee as to disincline them to report this measure favorably. The American, VII. 292. disintegration Disinfection consists in the destruction of something infectious, and we fail to see any justification for the popular use of the term which makes it synonymous with deodorization. Science, VI. 328.