disarmer

[Eng. disarm; -er.] One who disarms. "So much learning and abilities, as this disarmer is believed to have." - Hammond: Works , ii. 62. dis-arm-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [DISARM.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. The act or proce of depriving or stripping of arms; a rendering harmle , powerle , or innocuous. "All the scoffings and revilings which were thought nece ary by S. W. for the disarming of schism."- Ham mond: Works , ii. 63. 2. The act of laying arms down or aside; disarmament. dis-ar-range, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. arrange (q. v.). Suggested by O. Fr. desarrenger =" to unrank, disorder, disarray" ( Cotgrave ). ( Skeat .)] To disturb the order or arrangement of; to put out of order; to derange. "Complaint was heard on every part, Of something disarranged ." Scott: Marmion, iv. 1. dis-ar-rån ged, pa. par. or a. [DISARRANGE.] dis-ar-rān ge-ment, s. [Pref. dis, and English arrangement (q. v.).] 1. The act of disarranging or putting out of order. "How, I pray, is it po ible that the mere disarrange . ment of the parts of matter should perform this?"A. Baxter : On the Soul (1737), ii. 137. 2. A state of being disarranged or not in regular order or method; disorder; want of arrangement. "Here glitt'ring turrets rise, upbearing high (Fantastic disarrangement ), on the roof Large growth of what may seem the sparkling trees," Cowper : Task , v. 110-12. dis-ar-rang-ing, pr . par ., a . & 8. [DISARRANGE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of disturbing or putting out of order or arrangement; disarrangement. dis-ar-rāy', v. t. & i. [O. Fr. désarroyer . ] A. Transitive : 11. To undre ; to divest of clothes. "Now night is come, now soon her disarray , And in her bed her lay." Spenser: Epithalamium. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. disarray 2. To throw into confusion or disorder; to rout. "While o'er the necks Thou drovest of warring angels disarray'd." Milton: P L., iii. 395, 396. *B. In trans.: To divest one's self of clothes; to undre . dis-ar-ray', *dis-a-ray, *des-ray, *dis-ray, s . [Fr. désarroi : dés Lat. dis away, from; Fr. ar = Lat. ad to, and O. Fr. roi =order.] 1. The state of being without clothes; undre ; disorder in dre . 2. Disorder, confusion. "E'en Hector fled through heaps of disarray, The fiery coursers forced their lord away." Pope Homer's Iliad , xvi. 440, 441. dis-ar-rāy'ed, pa . par . or a . [DISARRAY, v.] dis-ar-rāy-Ing, pr . par . , a . & s . [DISARRAY, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (Sce the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. The act of stripping of clothes or undre ing. 2. The act of throwing into confusion or disorder. dis-ar-tic-u-lāte, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. articulate (q. v.).] To separate, divide, or sunder the joints of.