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Milton.

2. That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury.

Hast thou delight to see a wretched man Do outrage and displeasure to himself?

Shak.

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3. State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor. [Obs.]

He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity.

Peacham.

Syn. -- Dissatisfaction; disapprobation; disfavor; distaste; dislike; anger; hate; aversion; indignation; offense.

Dis*pleas"ure (?; 135), v. t. To displease. [Obs.] Bacon.

Dis*plen"ish (?), v. t. To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock. [Scot.]

{ Dis"pli*cence (?), Dis"pli*cen*cy (?), } n. [L. displicentia. See Displacency.] Dislike; dissatisfaction; discontent. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Dis*plode" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disploded; p. pr. & vb. n. Disploding.] [L. displodere, displosum; dis- + plodere, plaudere, to clap, strike, beat.] To discharge; to explode.

In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder.

Milton.

Dis*plode", v. i. To burst with a loud report; to explode. "Disploding engines." Young.

Dis*plo"sion (?), n. Explosion.

The vast displosion dissipates the clouds.

Young.

Dis*plo"sive (?), a. Explosive.

Dis*plume" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displumed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Displuming.] [Pref. dis- + plume: cf. OF. desplumer, F. déplumer.] To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed.

Burke.

Dis"po*line (?), n. (Chem.) One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.

Dis*pond" (?), n. See Despond.

Di*spon"dee (?), n. [L. dispondeus, Gr. &?;; di- = di`s- twice + &?; spondee.] (Gr. &?; Lat. Pros.) A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

Dis*pone" (?), v. t. [L. disponere. See Disposition.] 1. (Her.) To dispose.

2. To dispose of. Chaucer.

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