Part 3288

<i>Jefferson.</i>

<h1>Dissatisfaction</h1> <Xpage=431>

<hw>Dis*sat`is*fac"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.</def>

<blockquote>The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and <b>dissatisfaction</b>. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Discontent; discontentment; displeasure; disapprobation; distaste; dislike.</syn>

<h1>Dissatisfactory</h1> <Xpage=431>

<hw>Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.</def>

<blockquote>To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as <b>dissatisfactory</b> to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. <i>A. Hamilton.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Dissatisfy</h1> <Xpage=431>

<hw>Dis*sat"is*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dissatisfied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dissatisfying</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; <as>as, to be <ex>dissatisfied</ex> with one's fortune</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>dissatisfied</b> factions of the autocracy. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disseat</h1> <Xpage=431>

<hw>Dis*seat"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To unseat.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Dissect</h1> <Xpage=431>

<hw>Dis*sect"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dissected</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dissecting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>dissectus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>dissecare</ets>; <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>secare</ets> to cut. See <er>Section</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.</def>

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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.</def>

<blockquote>This paragraph . . . I have <b>dissected</b> for a sample. <i>Atterbury.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dissected</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sect"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Cut into several parts; divided into sections; <as>as, a <ex>dissected</ex> map</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; <as>as, a <ex>dissected</ex> leaf</as>.</def>

<h1>Dissectible</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sect"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection.</def>

<i>Paley.</i>

<h1>Dissecting</h1> <Xpage=432>