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Tatler.

Dis*sim"u*la`tor (?), n. [L.] One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Dis*sim"ule (?), v. t. & i. [F. dissimuler. See Dissimulate.] To dissemble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dis*sim"u*ler (?), n. A dissembler. [Obs.]

Dis*sim"u*lour (?), n. [OF. dissimuleur.] A dissembler. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dis"si*pa*ble (?), a. [L. dissipabilis.] Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.]

The heat of those plants is very dissipable.

Bacon.

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Dis"si*pate (ds"s*pt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissipating.] [L. dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw.] 1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

Dissipated those foggy mists of error.

Selden.

I soon dissipated his fears.

Cook.

The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.

Hazlitt.

2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.

The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.

Bp. Burnet.

Syn. -- To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.

Dis"si*pate, v. i. 1. To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.

Dis"si*pa`ted (ds"s*p`td), a. 1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson.

2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.

A life irregular and dissipated.

Johnson.

Dis`si*pa"tion (?), n. [L. dissipatio: cf. F. dissipation.] 1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

Without loss or dissipation of the matter.