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2. To deprive of membership. [Obs.]

They were dismembered by vote of the house.

R. North.

Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.

Dis*mem"ber*ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. desmembrement, F. démembrement.] The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m&?;tilation; division; separation.

The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head.

Macaulay.

Dis*met"tled (?), a. Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [R.] Llewellyn.

Dis*miss" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismissed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismissing.] [L. dis- + missus, p. p. of mittere to send: cf. dimittere, OF. desmetre, F. démettre. See Demise, and cf. Dimit.] 1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

He dismissed the assembly.

Acts xix. 41.

Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock.

Cowper.

Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs.

Dryden.

2. To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

3. To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

Dis*miss", n. Dismission. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Dis*miss"al (?), n. Dismission; discharge.

Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal.

Motley.

Dis*mis"sion (?), n. [Cf. L. dimissio.] 1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.

3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

Dis*miss"ive (?), a. Giving dismission.

Dis*mort"gage (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismortaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismortgaging (?).] To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.

Dis*mount" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dismounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismounting.] [Pref. dis- + mount: cf. OF. desmonter, F. démonter.] 1. To come down; to descend. [Poetic]

But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.