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Dis*pread", v. i. To extend or expand itself. [R.]

While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky.

Thomson.

Dis*pread"er (?), n. One who spreads abroad.

Dispreaders both of vice and error.

Milton.

Dis*prej"u*dice (?), v. t. To free from prejudice. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Dis`pre*pare" (?), v. t. To render unprepared. [Obs.] Hobbes.

Dis*prince" (?), v. t. To make unlike a prince. [R.]

For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel.

Tennyson.

Dis*pris"on (?), v. t. To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. [R.] Bulwer.

Dis*priv"i*lege (?), v. t. To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]

Dis*prize" (?), v. t. [Cf. Dispraise.] To depreciate. [R.] Cotton (Ode to Lydia).

Dis`pro*fess" (?), v. t. To renounce the profession or pursuit of.

His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess.

Spenser.

Dis*prof"it (?), n. Loss; damage. Foxe.

Dis*prof"it, v. i. & i. To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic] Bale.

Dis*prof"it*a*ble (?), a. Unprofitable. [Obs.]

Dis*proof" (?), n. [Pref. dis- + proof. Cf. Disprove.] A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other.

Rogers.

Dis*prop"er*ty (?), v. t. To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [R.] Shak.

Dis`pro*por"tion (?), n. [Pref. dis- + proportion: cf. F. disproportion.] 1. Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.

2. Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

Dis`pro*por"tion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disproportioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disproportioning.] To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.

To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part.