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<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.</def>

<blockquote>Give up My estate to his <b>disposure</b>. <i>Massinger.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Disposition; arrangement; position; posture.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>In a kind of warlike <b>disposure</b>. <i>Sir H. Wotton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispraisable</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*prais"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Blamable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Dispraise</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*praise"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dispraised</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dispraising</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>dispreisen</ets>, OF. <ets>desprisier</ets>, <ets>despreisier</ets>, F. <ets>d\'82priser</ets>; pref. <ets>des-</ets> (L. <ets>dis-</ets>) + <ets>prisier</ets>, F. <ets>priser</ets>, to prize, praise. See <er>Praise</er>, and cf. <er>Disprize</er>, <er>Depreciate</er>.]</ety> <def>To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.</def>

<blockquote><b>Dispraising</b> the power of his adversaries. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I <b>dispraised</b> him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispraise</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*praise"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>despris</ets>. See <er>Dispraise</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>In praise and in <b>dispraise</b> the same. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispraiser</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*prais"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who blames or dispraises.</def>

<h1>Dispraisingly</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*praising*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By way of dispraise.</def>

<h1>Dispread</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pread"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>spread</ets>.]</ety> <def>To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; <as>as, the sun <ex>dispreads</ex> his beams</as>.</def>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Dispread</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pread"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To extend or expand itself.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>While tyrant H<?/<?/t, <b>dispreading</b> through the sky. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispreader</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pread"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who spreads abroad.</def>

<blockquote><b>Dispreaders</b> both of vice and error. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disprejudice</h1> <Xpage=430>