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Dis`in*fect"ant (?), n. That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

Dis`in*fec"tion (?), n. The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

Dis`in*fect"or (?), n. One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

Dis`in*flame" (?), v. t. To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

Dis*in`ge*nu"i*ty (?), n. Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Dis`in*gen"u*ous (?), a. 1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.

2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.

So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults].

Pope.

-- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. T. Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n. Macaulay.

Dis`in*hab"it*ed (?), a. Uninhabited. [Obs.]

Dis`in*her"i*son (?), n. [See Disinherit, v. t., and cf. Disherison.] Same as Disherison. Bacon.

Dis`in*her"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinherited; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinheriting.] [Cf. Disherit, Disheir.] 1. To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.

Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!

South.

2. To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.

And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here.

Milton.

Dis`in*her"it*ance (?), n. The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

Dis`in*hume" (?), v. t. To disinter. [R.]

Dis`in*sure" (?), v. t. To render insecure; to put in danger. [Obs.] Fanshawe.

Dis*in"te*gra*ble (?), a. Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.

Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure.

Kirwan.

Dis*in"te*grate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disintegrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disintegrating.] [L. dis- + integratus, p. p. of integrare to renew, repair, fr. integer entire, whole. See Integer.] To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.

Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.

Kirwan.

Dis*in"te*grate, v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.