dis animation (dis an i mash on)

[ True it is, that a glowworm will afford a faint light almost a daye's space when many will conceive it dead; but this is a mistake in the compute of death and term of dis animation , Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., iii. 27. 2. The act of discouraging; depre ion of spirits. [Rare.] dis an next (dis-a-neks'), v. t. [ That when the provinces were lost and disannexed , and that the king was but king de jure ouer them and not de facto, yet neuerthele the privilege of naturalization continued. State Trials , Case of the Postnati (1608).