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The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc&?; as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation.

I. Taylor.

Dis"si*dent*ly, adv. In a dissident manner.

{ Dis*sil"i*ence (?; 106), Dis*sil"i*en*cy (?), } n. The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.

Dis*sil"i*ent (?), a. [L. dissiliens, -entis, p. pr. of dissilire to leap asunder: dis- + salire to leap.] Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

Dis`si*li"tion (?), n. The act of bursting or springing apart. [R.] Boyle.

Dis*sim"i*lar (?), a. [Pref. dis- + similar: cf. F. dissimilaire.] Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

This part very dissimilar to any other.

Boyle.

Dis*sim`i*lar"i*ty (?), n. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.

Dis*sim"i*lar*ly (?), adv. In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay.

C. Smart.

Dis*sim"i*late (?), v. t. To render dissimilar.

Dis*sim`i*la"tion (?), n. The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.

Dis*sim"i*le (?), n. [L. dissimile, neut. of dissimilis unlike.] (Rhet.) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Dis`si*mil"i*tude (?), n. [L. dissimilitudo, fr. dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.] 1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images.

Stillingfleet.

2. (Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.

Dis*sim"u*late (?), a. [L. dissimulatus, p. p. of dissimulare. See Dissemble.] Feigning; simulating; pretending. [Obs.] Henryson.

Dis*sim"u*late (?), v. i. To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Dis*sim`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

Let love be without dissimulation.

Rom. xii. 9.

Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is.

Bacon.

Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is.