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<blockquote>To social scenes by nature <b>disinclined</b>. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disinclose</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*close"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Disenclose</er>.]</ety> <def>To free from being inclosed.</def>

<h1>Disincorporate</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*cor"po*rate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disincorporated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disincorporating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To detach or separate from a corporation.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Disincorporate</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*cor"po*rate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Disincorporation</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*cor`po*ra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.</def>

<i>T. Warton.</i>

<h1>Disinfect</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*fect"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disinfected</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disinfecting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.</def>

<blockquote>When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to <b>disinfect</b>. <i>Ure.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disinfectant</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*fect"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.</def>

<h1>Disinfection</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*fec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.</def>

<h1>Disinfector</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*fect"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.</def>

<h1>Disinflame</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*flame"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To divest of flame or ardor.</def>

<i>Chapman.</i>

<h1>Disingenuity</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*in`ge*nu"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Disingenuousness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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