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<hw>Dis*sev"er*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>dessevrement</ets>.]</ety> <def>Disseverance.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Disshadow</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*shad"ow</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To free from shadow or shade.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>G. Fletcher.</i>

<h1>Dissheathe</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sheathe"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To become unsheathed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i>

<h1>Disship</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*ship"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To dismiss from service on board ship.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hakluyt.</i>

<h1>Disshiver</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*shiv"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <def>To shiver or break in pieces.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dissidence</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis"si*dence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dissidentia</ets>: cf. F. <ets>dissidence</ets>. See <er>Dissident</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.</def>

<i>I. Taylor.</i>

<blockquote>It is the <b>dissidence</b> of dissent. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dissident</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis"si*dent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dissidens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>dissidere</ets> to sit apart, to disagree; <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>sedere</ets> to sit: cf. F. <ets>dissident</ets>. See <er>Sit</er>.]</ety> <def>No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.</def>

<blockquote>Our life and manners be <b>dissident</b> from theirs. <i>Robynson (More's Utopia).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dissident</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis"si*dent</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>dissident</b>, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc<?/ as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dissidently</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis"si*dent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dissident manner.</def>

<h1>Dissilience; 106, Dissiliency</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw><hw>Dis*sil"i*ence</hw> <tt>(?; 106)</tt>, <hw>Dis*sil"i*en*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of leaping or starting asunder.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

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