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<i>Boyle.</i>

<h1>Dissertly</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sert"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>See <er>Disertly</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Disserve</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*serve"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Di<?/<?/<?/<?/<?/</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disserving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>serve</ets>: cf. F. <ets>desservir</ets>.]</ety> <def>To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.</def>

<blockquote>Have neither served nor <b>disserved</b> the interests of any party. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disservice</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*serv"ice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>service</ets>: cf. F. <ets>desservice</ets>.]</ety> <def>Injury; mischief.</def>

<blockquote>We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any <b>disservice</b> unto their relators. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disserviceable</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*serv"ice*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.</def> <i>Shaftesbury</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> <i>Norris</i>. -- <wf>Dis*serv"ice*a*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Dissettle</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*set"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To unsettle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dissettlement</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*set"tle*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.</def>

<i>Marvell.</i>

<h1>Dissever</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sev"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dissevered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dissevering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>dessevrer</ets>; pref. <ets>des-</ets> (L. <ets>dis-</ets>) + <ets>sevrer</ets> to sever, F. <ets>sevrer</ets> to wean, L. <ets>separate</ets> to separate. In this word the prefix is intensive. See <er>Dis-</er>, and <er>Sever</er>.]</ety> <def>To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.</def>

<blockquote>The storm so <b>dissevered</b> the company . . . that most of therm never met again. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>States <b>disserved</b>, discordant, belligerent. <i>D. Webster.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dissever</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sev"er</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To part; to separate.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Disseverance</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sev"er*ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>dessevrance</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of disserving; separation.</def>

<h1>Disseveration</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sev`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of disserving; disseverance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Disseverment</h1> <Xpage=432>