dispeace (dispes)

[ To that end he dispeeded an emba adour to Poland. Knolles, Hist. Turks. Thus having said, Deliberately, in self-po e ion still, Himself from that most painful interview Dispeeding , he withdrew. Southey. dispel (dis-pel'), v. t .; pret. and pp. dispelled , dispelling . [L. dis ppr. dispelling. disperse, L. dispel lere, drive away, to dispel vapors, darkne , or gloom; fears, cares, sorrows, doubts, etc.; to dispel a tumor, or humors. I lov'd, and love dispell'd the fear That I should die an early death. Tennyson, Miller's Daughter. The dreams of idealism may, I think, be thus effectually dispelled by a thorough analysis of what is given us in Mivart , Nature and Thought, p. 122. perception. axis of the bore. nance to make the line of sight parallel to the dispa iont (dis-pash'on), n. [ turbed state of the mind; apathy. Called by the Stoics apathy, or dispa ion , Sir W. Temple, Gardening. dispa ionate (dis-pash'on-at), a. [ The hazard of great interests cannot fail to agitate strong pa ions; we are not disinterested; it is impo ible we should be dispa ionate . Ames , Works, II. 38. Quiet, dispa ionate , and cold. Tennyson, A Character. 2. Not dictated by pa ion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial: applied to actions or sentiments: as, dispa ionate proceedings; dispa ionate views. Reason requires a calm and dispa ionate situation of the mind to form her judgments aright. A. Tucker , Light of Nature, I. xxi. Cranmer had a greater capacity than either Henry or Crumwel; he had much of the dispa ionate quality of the statesman. R. W. Dizon , Hist. Church of Eng., iii. =Syn. Cool, serene, temperate, moderate, collected, unruffled, sober. dispa ionately (dis-pash'on-at-li), adv. Without pa ion; calmly; coolly. dispeller (dis-pel'er), n. One who or that which dispels: as, the sun is the dispeller of darkne . dispensation being abrogated or remitted by, dispensation. See dispensation, 5. In convocation the two questions on which the divorce turned were debated in the manner of University disputations; the theologians disputed as to the dispensability of a marriage with a brother's widow, the canonists on the facts of Arthur's marriage with Katherine. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 284. dispensable (dis-pen'sa-bl), a . [= F.dispensa ble Sp. dispensable = Pg. dispensavel = It. dis pens a bile , that may be dispensed (cf. OF. des pens able , prodigal, abundant, dispen sabilis , pertaining to expenses); as dispense + -able .] 1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. Laws of the land... dispensable by the ordinary courts. State Trials , Col. Andrewe, an. 1680. 2. Capable of being spared or dispensed with. There are some things, which indeed are pious and religious, but dispensable, voluntary, and commutable. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 274. Cole ridge, Lit. Remains, IV. 259. Not a tone of colour, not a note of form, is misplaced or dispensable . Swinburne , E ays, p. 118. 3. Capable of receiving or being the subject of dispensation; hence, excusable; pardonable. Dispensable , at least, if not superfluous. If straining a point were at all dispensable , it would certainly be so rather to the advance of unity than increase of contradiction. Swift , Tale of a Tub, vi. The