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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.</def>

<blockquote>The vast wealth . . . was in three years <b>dissipated</b>. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.</syn>

<h1>Dissipate</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis"si*pate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; <as>as, a fog or cloud gradually <ex>dissipates</ex> before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body <ex>dissipates</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.</def>

<h1>Dissipated</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis"si*pa`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Squandered; scattered.</def> "<i>Dissipated</i> wealth."

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.</def>

<blockquote>A life irregular and <b>dissipated</b>. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dis`si*pa"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dissipatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>dissipation</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.</def>

<blockquote>Without loss or <b>dissipation</b> of the matter. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The famous <b>dissipation</b> of mankind. <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.</def>

<blockquote>To reclaim the spendthrift from his <b>dissipation</b> and extravagance. <i>P. Henry.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.</def>

<blockquote>Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and <b>dissipations</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Dissipation of energy</col>. <cd>Same as <i>Degradation of energy<i>, under <er>Degradation</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dissipative</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis"si*pa*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to dissipate.</def>

<cs><col>Dissipative system</col> <fld>(Mech.)</fld>, <cd>an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to <i>conservative system<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dissipativity</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis`si*pa*tiv"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.</def>

<h1>Dissite</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis"site</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dissitus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Lying apart.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>