Part 410

Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party.

Jer. Taylor.

Dis*serv"ice (?), n. [Pref. dis- + service: cf. F. desservice.] Injury; mischief.

We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators.

Sir T. Browne.

Dis*serv"ice*a*ble (?), a. Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv.

Dis*set"tle (?), v. t. To unsettle. [Obs.]

Dis*set"tle*ment (?), n. The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.

Dis*sev"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissevered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dissevering.] [OE. dessevrer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + sevrer to sever, F. sevrer to wean, L. separate to separate. In this word the prefix is intensive. See Dis-, and Sever.] To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.

The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again.

Sir P. Sidney.

States disserved, discordant, belligerent.

D. Webster.

Dis*sev"er, v. i. To part; to separate. Chaucer.

Dis*sev"er*ance (?), n. [OF. dessevrance.] The act of disserving; separation.

Dis*sev`er*a"tion (?), n. The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]

Dis*sev"er*ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. dessevrement.] Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.

Dis*shad"ow (?), v. t. To free from shadow or shade. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Dis*sheathe" (?), v. i. To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Dis*ship" (?), v. t. To dismiss from service on board ship. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

Dis*shiv"er (?), v. t. & i. To shiver or break in pieces. [Obs.]

Dis"si*dence (?), n. [L. dissidentia: cf. F. dissidence. See Dissident, a.] Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. I. Taylor.

It is the dissidence of dissent.

Burke.

Dis"si*dent (?), a. [L. dissidens, -entis, p. pr. of dissidere to sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See Sit.] No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.

Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.

Robynson (More's Utopia).

Dis"si*dent, n. (Eccl.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.