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I. Taylor.

Syn. -- Indignity; derogation; detraction; reproach; dishonor; debasement; degradation; disgrace.

Dis*par"a*ger (?), n. One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Dis*par"a*ging*ly (?), adv. In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.

Dis"pa*rate (?), a. [L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.] 1. Unequal; dissimilar; separate.

Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them.

Coleridge.

2. (Logic) Pertaining to two coördinate species or divisions.

Dis"pa*rates (?), n. pl. Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

Dis`pa*ri"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. disparition.] Act of disappearing; disappearance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Dis*par"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Disparities (#). [LL. disparitas, fr. L. dispar unlike, unequal; dis- + par equal: cf. F. disparité. See Par, Peer.] Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.

The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures.

I. Taylor.

The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness.

Macaulay.

Syn. -- Inequality; unlikeness; dissimilitude; disproportion; difference.

Dis*park" (?), v. t. 1. To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.

The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked.

Jer. Taylor.

2. To set at large; to release from inclosure.

Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all.

Waller.

Dis*par"kle (?), v. t. [OF. desparpeillier.] To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.

Dis*part" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disparted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disparting.] [Pref. dis- + part: cf. OF. despartir.] To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic]

Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart.

Spenser.

The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.

Emerson.