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<i>Clarendon.</i>

<h1>Disingenuous</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*gen"u*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; <as>as, <ex>disingenuous</ex> conduct or schemes</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.</def>

<blockquote>So <b>disingenuous</b> as not to confess them [faults]. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> <i>T. Warton.</i> -- <wf>Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<h1>Disinhabited</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*hab"it*ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Uninhabited.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Disinherison</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*her"i*son</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Disinherit</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, and cf. <er>Disherison</er>.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Disherison</er>.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Disinherit</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*her"it</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disinherited</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disinheriting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. <er>Disherit</er>, <er>Disheir</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.</def>

<blockquote>Of how fair a portion Adam <b>disinherited</b> his whole posterity! <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.</def>

<blockquote>And <b>disinherit</b> Chaos, that reigns here. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disinheritance</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*her"it*ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.</def>

<h1>Disinhume</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*hume"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To disinter.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Disinsure</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis`in*sure"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To render insecure; to put in danger.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Fanshawe.</i>

<h1>Disintegrable</h1> <Xpage=426>

<hw>Dis*in"te*gra*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.</def>

<blockquote>Argillo-calcite is readily <b>disintegrable</b> by exposure. <i>Kirwan.</i></blockquote>