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<blockquote>That ye may attend upon the Lord without <b>distraction</b>. <i>1 Cor. vii. 3<?/.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; <as>as, political <ex>distractions</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Never was known a night of such <b>distraction</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>distraction</b> of the children, who saw both their parents together, would have melted the hardest heart. <i>Tatler.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Derangement of the mind; madness.</def>

<i>Atterbury.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Perplexity; confusion; disturbance; disorder; dissension; tumult; derangement; madness; raving; franticness; furiousness.</syn>

<h1>Distractious</h1> <Xpage=435>

<hw>Dis*trac"tious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Distractive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Distractive</h1> <Xpage=435>

<hw>Dis*trac"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Causing perplexity; distracting.</def> "<i>Distractive</i> thoughts."

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Distrain</h1> <Xpage=435>

<hw>Dis*train"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Distrained</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Distraining</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>destreinen</ets> to force, OF. <ets>destreindre</ets> to press, oppress, force, fr. L. <ets>distringere</ets>, <ets>districtum</ets>, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; <ets>di-</ets> = <ets>stringere</ets> to draw tight, press together. See <er>Strain</er>, and cf. <er>Distress</er>, <er>District</er>, <er>Distraint</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Distrained</i> with chains."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To rend; to tear.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Neither guile nor force might it [a net] <b>distrain</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; <as>as, to <ex>distrain</ex> goods for rent, or of an amercement</as></def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>To subject to distress; to coerce; <as>as, to <ex>distrain</ex> a person by his goods and chattels</as>.</def>

<h1>Distrain</h1> <Xpage=435>

<hw>Dis*train"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To levy a distress.</def>

<blockquote>Upon whom I can <b>distrain</b> for debt. <i>Camden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Distrainable</h1> <Xpage=435>

<hw>Dis*train"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<h1>Distrainer</h1> <Xpage=435>

<hw>Dis*train"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Distrainor</er>.</def>