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<blockquote><b>Disfiguring</b> not God's likeness, but their own. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure.</syn>

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

<hw>Dis*fig"ure</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Disfigurement; deformity.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Disfigurement</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fig"ure*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.</def>

<blockquote>Uncommon expressions . . . are a <b>disfigurement</b> rather than any embellishment of discourse. <i>Hume.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disfigurer</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fig"ur*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who disfigures.</def>

<h1>Disflesh</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*flesh"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To reduce the flesh or obesity of.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shelton.</i>

<h1>Disforest</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*for"est</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To disafforest.</def>

<i>Fuller.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To clear or deprive of forests or trees.</def>

<h1>Disforestation</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*for`es*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of clearing land of forests.</def>

<i>Daniel.</i>

<h1>Disformity</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*form"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Deformity</er>.]</ety> <def>Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form.</def>

<blockquote>Uniformity or <b>disformity</b> in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. <i>S. Clarke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disfranchise</h1> <Xpage=424>

<hw>Dis*fran"chise</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disfranchised</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disfranchising</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. <er>Diffranchise</er>.]</ety> <def>To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.</def>

<blockquote>Sir William Fitzwilliam was <b>disfranchised</b>. <i>Fabyan (1509).</i></blockquote>