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Dis`en*tail" (?), v. t. (Law) To free from entailment.

Dis`en*tan"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disentangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disentangling (?).] 1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.

To disentangle truth from error.

Stewart.

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.

Clarendon.

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

Syn. -- To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear; evolve; disengage; separate; detach.

Dis`en*tan"gle*ment (?), n. The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

Dis`en*ter" (?), v. t. See Disinter.

Dis`en*thrall" (?), v. t. [See Enthrall.] To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

Dis`en*thrall"ment (?), n. Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]

Dis`en*throne" (?), v. t. To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.

Dis`en*ti"tle (?), v. t. To deprive of title or claim.

Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father.

South.

Dis`en*tomb" (?), v. t. To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

Dis`en*trail" (?), v. t. To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.]

As if he thought her soul to disentrail.

Spenser.

Dis`en*trance" (?), v. t. To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

Dis`en*twine" (?), v. t. To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

Di*sep"al*ous (?), a. [Pref. di- + sepalous.] (Bot.) Having two sepals; two- sepaled.

Dis*ert" (?), a. [L. disertus, for dissertus, p. p.: cf. F. disert. See Dissert.] Eloquent. [Obs.]

Dis*er"ti*tude (?), n. [L. disertitud&?;.] Eloquence. [Obs.]

Dis*ert"y (?), adv. Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [Obs.] Holland.

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