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2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.]

Do not dismay yourself for this.

Spenser.

Syn. -- To terrify; fright; affright; frighten; appall; daunt; dishearthen; dispirit; discourage; deject; depress. -- To Dismay, Daunt, Appall. Dismay denotes a state of deep and gloomy apprehension. To daunt supposes something more sudden and startling. To appall is the strongest term, implying a sense of terror which overwhelms the faculties.

So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed, The lions roaring through the midnight shade.

Pope.

Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control.

Pope.

Now the last ruin the whole host appalls; Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls.

Pope.

Dis*may", v. i. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. [Obs.] Shak.

Dis*may", n. [Cf. OF. esmai, F. émoi. See Dismay, v. t.] 1. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay.

Macaulay.

Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.

Mrs. Barbauld.

2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. Spenser.

Syn. -- Dejection; discouragement; depression; fear; fright; terror; apprehension; alarm; affright.

Dis*may"ed*ness (?), n. A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

Dis*may"ful (?), a. Terrifying. Spenser.

||Disme (?), n. [OF. See Dime.] A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.

Dis*mem"ber (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismembered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismembering.] [OF. desmembrer, F. démembrer; pref. des- (L. dis) + OF. & F. membre limb. See Member.] 1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

Fowls obscene dismembered his remains.

Pope.

A society lacerated and dismembered.

Gladstone.

By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire.

Buckle.