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Bacon.

The famous dissipation of mankind.

Sir M. Hale.

2. A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.

To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance.

P. Henry.

3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.

Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations.

Swift.

Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation.

Dis"si*pa*tive (?), a. Tending to dissipate.

Dissipative system (Mech.), an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

Dis`si*pa*tiv"i*ty (?), n. The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

Dis"site (?), a. [L. dissitus.] Lying apart. [Obs.]

Lands far dissite and remote asunder.

Holland.

Dis*slan"der (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- (intens.) + slander.] To slander. [Obs.] Legend of Dido.

Dis*slan"der, n. Slander. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Dis*slan"der*ous (?), a. Slanderous. [Obs.]

Dis*so`cia*bil"i*ty (?), n. Want of sociability; unsociableness. Bp. Warburton.

Dis*so"cia*ble (?), a. [L. dissociabilis, fr. dissociare: cf. F. dissociable. See Dissociate.] 1. Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.

They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner.

Spectator.

2. Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable.

Dis*so"cial (?), a. [Pref. dis- + social: cf. L. dissocialis. See Dissociate, v. t.] Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

Dis*so"cial*ize (?), v. t. To render unsocial.

Dis*so"ci*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissociated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissociating.] [L. dissociatus, p. p. of dissociare to dissociate; dis- + sociare to unite, associate, socius companion. See Social.] To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer.