disdainful (disdan ful)

[ Yet I ge e vnder disdain full brow One beam of ruth is in her cloudy looke, Which com fortes the mind, that erst for fear shooke. Wyatt , The Wauering Louer, etc. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. Gray, Elegy. disdainfully (dis-dan'ful-i), adv. Contemptuously; with scorn; in a haughty manner. Disdainfully she look'd; then turning round, But fix'd her eyes unmov'd upon the ground. Dryden, Æneid, vi. disdainfulne (dis-dan'fül-nes), n . Contempt; ten contemptuousne ; haughty scorn. There was never such beastline of minds, such disdain fulne in hearts. Strype, Queen Mary, an. 1554. disdain oust (dis-da'nus), a. [ dédaigneux = Pr. desdenhos = Sp. desdeñoso = Pg. desdenhoso It. disdegnoso , sdegnoso ; as disdain + -ous. Cf. dainous .] Disdainful. His loking was not disdeynous Ne proude, but meke and ful pesyble; About his necke he bare a Byble. = Rom. of the Rose , 1. 7410. Thy scorns, mocks, and other disdain ous words and behaviours. Latimer , On the Card, ii. disdainouslyt (dis-da'nus-li), adv. Disdainfully. Remembre howe dis day no us lye and lothsomly they are pleased wyth gyftes that haue thys homelye adage in theyr mouthes, he geueth me a pygge of myne owne so we. Bp. Bale, Apology, Pref. An obsolete spelling [Irreg. disdeignt (dis-dan'), v. of disdain. disdiaclast (dis-di'a-klast), n. (in comp. prop. dι- ), twice, + sumed verbal adj. of διακλᾶν, break in twain,