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<blockquote>Sentiment of <b>disfavor</b> against its ally. <i>Gladstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; <as>as, to be in <ex>disfavor</ex> at court</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An unkindness; a disobliging act.</def>

<blockquote>He might dispense favors and <b>disfavors</b>. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disfavor</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fa"vor</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disfavored</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disfavoring</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.</def>

<blockquote>Countenanced or <b>disfavored</b> according as they obey. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To injure the form or looks of.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Disfavorable</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fa"vor*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82favorable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Unfavorable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Stow.</i>

<h1>Disfavorably</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fa"vor*a*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Unpropitiously.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Disfavorer</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fa"vor*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who disfavors.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Disfeature</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fea"ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Defeature</er>.]</ety> <def>To deprive of features; to mar the features of.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Disfellowship</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fel"low*ship</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Fellowship</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.</def>

<blockquote>An attempt to <b>disfellowship</b> an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. <i>Freewill Bapt. Quart.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disfiguration</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fig`u*ra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Disfigure</er>, and cf. <er>Defiguration</er>.]</ety> <def>The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.</def>

<i>Gauden.</i>

<h1>Disfigure</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fig"ure</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disfigured</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disfiguring</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>desfigurer</ets>, F. <ets>d\'82figurer</ets>; pref. <ets>des-</ets> (L. <ets>dis-</ets>) + <ets>figurer</ets> to fashion, shape, fr. L. <ets>figurare</ets>, fr. <ets>figura</ets> figure. See <er>Figure</er>, and cf. <er>Defiguration</er>.]</ety> <def>To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.</def>

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