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Dis`es*pouse" (?), v. t. To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.

Dis`es*tab"lish (?), v. t. To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

Dis`es*tab"lish*ment (?), n. 1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

2. The condition of being disestablished.

Dis`es*teem" (?), n. Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.

Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs.

Milton.

Dis`es*teem", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disesteemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disesteeming.] 1. To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.

But if this sacred gift you disesteem.

Denham.

Qualities which society does not disesteem.

Ld. Lytton.

2. To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor. [Obs.]

What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed, Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed?

B. Jonson.

Dis`es*teem"er (?), n. One who disesteems. Boyle.

Dis*es`ti*ma"tion (?), n. Disesteem.

Dis*ex"er*cise (?), v. t. To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.]

By disexercising and blunting our abilities.

Milton.

Dis*fame" (?), n. Disrepute. [R.] Tennyson.

Dis*fan"cy (?), v. t. To dislike. [Obs.]

Dis*fash"ion (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + fashion. See Fashion, and cf. Defeat.] To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Dis*fa"vor (?), n. [Pref. dis- + favor: cf. OF. disfaveur, F. défaveur.] [Written also disfavour.] 1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

The people that deserved my disfavor.

Is. x. 6 (1551).

Sentiment of disfavor against its ally.

Gladstone.