Discredit to Distasteful

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

discredit, n. (1)

    Cir 2.318 11 Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not...

discredit, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.188 6 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people...
    ET12 5.212 13 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine...
    Dem1 10.18 22 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.
    MLit 12.328 22 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?

discreditable, adj. (2)

    Pol1 3.219 12 Much has been blind and discreditable, but the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...
    CbW 6.256 15 ...most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

discredited, adj. (1)

    LT 1.291 14 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.

discredited, v. (8)

    Pol1 3.208 2 ...our institutions...have not any exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms.
    ET11 5.197 23 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England], the badge is discredited...
    ET15 5.264 6 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848...
    Thor 10.472 26 ...as [Thoreau] discovered everywhere among doctors some leaning of courtesy, it discredited them.
    FSLC 11.182 1 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLC 11.182 5 The college, the churches, the schools, the very shops and factories, are discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law];...
    FSLC 11.190 5 I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.
    EPro 11.321 23 What if the brokers' quotations show our stocks discredited...

discredits, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.170 2 Here [in the forest] is...reality which discredits our heroes.
    SwM 4.97 23 Must the highest good drag after it a quality which neutralizes and discredits it?
    ET14 5.239 16 Whoever discredits analogy...has no poetic power...
    JBB 11.269 4 The governor of Virginia has pronounced [John Brown's] eulogy in a manner that discredits the moderation of our timid parties.

discreet, adj. (2)

    LT 1.270 26 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it... repels discreet persons by the unfairness of the plea...
    ACiv 11.307 1 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...

discreetly, adv. (1)

    QO 8.189 21 Can we not help ourselves as discreetly by the force of two in literature?

discrepance, n. (1)

    Exp 3.85 1 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.

discrepancies, n. (1)

    ET14 5.238 12 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...

discrepancy, n. (3)

    Comc 8.159 15 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the intellect...
    Comc 8.160 22 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous. The comedy is in the intellect's perception of discrepancy.
    Comc 8.169 19 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.

discretion, n. (12)

    YA 1.385 15 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this, not certainly through any increased discretion shown by the citizens at elections...
    Chr1 3.104 26 A word warm from the heart enriches me. I surrender at discretion.
    PPh 4.59 3 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve...
    ShP 4.198 14 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    ET15 5.267 12 [The London Times's] consummate discretion and success exhibit the English skill of combination.
    Wth 6.101 27 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience...
    Wth 6.123 14 Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns to take his counsel. From step to step he comes at last to surrender at discretion.
    Art2 7.41 24 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range...
    Clbs 7.249 16 If [l'homme de lettres's] discretion is incurable...he will yet tell what new books he has found...
    SA 8.88 13 Remember George Herbert's maxim, This coat with my discretion will be brave.
    Aris 10.63 2 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion...
    Edc1 10.156 25 No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee... can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...

discriminate, v. (15)

    MN 1.192 10 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein.
    Prd1 2.226 26 Let [a man], if he have hands, handle; if eyes, measure and discriminate;...
    Prd1 2.230 10 Let [the figures in this picture of life] discriminate between what they remember and what they dreamed...
    SwM 4.104 6 The robust Aristotelian method...skilful to discriminate power from form...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    ET4 5.51 15 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain? Who can trace them historically? Who can discriminate them anatomically, or metaphysically?
    Suc 7.295 4 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    OA 7.317 11 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the ancestor of all around him; which fact the Indian Vedas express when they say, He that can discriminate is the father of his father.
    Chr2 10.93 11 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Plu 10.302 4 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
    Plu 10.302 8 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners...
    Thor 10.480 1 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    SMC 11.353 27 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...burns as hotly in Kansas and California as in Boston, and no chemist can discriminate between one soil and the other.
    Koss 11.398 7 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the unvarying tone and countenance which you have maintained. We wish to discriminate in our regard.
    FRO2 11.487 17 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself, discriminate between his higher and lower thoughts...
    EurB 12.370 7 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

discriminated, v. (9)

    Elo1 7.87 22 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch.
    Chr2 10.108 2 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated as honest, as veracious, as illuminated...
    Chr2 10.108 4 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons...are discriminated according to their aims, and not by these ritualities.
    LLNE 10.352 4 ...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
    SlHr 10.442 19 ...[Samuel Hoar] discriminated in the business that was brought to him...
    Milt1 12.249 10 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice. Therein [his tracts] are discriminated from modern writings, in which a regard to the actual is all but universal.
    Milt1 12.271 10 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom;...yet in his own mind discriminated from savage license...
    MLit 12.324 8 [Goethe] shared...the subjectiveness of the age, and that too in both the senses I have discriminated.
    Trag 12.408 1 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism...

discriminates, v. (7)

    Con 1.323 12 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates...
    SR 2.65 4 Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions...
    CInt 12.121 19 ...he who discriminates is the father of his father.
    CInt 12.130 24 Homage to truth discriminates good and evil.
    MLit 12.312 16 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times.
    MLit 12.314 20 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
    WSL 12.346 15 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age, yet he discriminates his faults with the greater freedom.

discriminating, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.244 22 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals are discriminating...
    Bost 12.185 1 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.

discriminating, v. (4)

    PPh 4.62 23 ...there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PNR 4.85 27 [Plato's] definition of ideas...forever discriminating them from the notions of the understanding, marks an era in the world.
    ET9 5.151 18 There is no fence in metaphysics discriminating Greek, or English, or Spanish science.
    SA 8.91 4 The hunger for company...must be discriminating...

discrimination, n. (3)

    Exp 3.50 21 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his chair?...
    Mrs1 3.139 1 The same discrimination of fit and fair runs out, if with less rigor, into all parts of life.
    Grts 8.310 15 ...there is for you...a slow discrimination that there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.

discs, n. (1)

    SMC 11.350 20 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.

discursive, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.45 23 There are men of great apprehension, discursive minds...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...

discuss, v. (4)

    Exp 3.85 21 We dress our garden...discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression...
    Elo2 8.112 18 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    Schr 10.278 12 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    EurB 12.377 18 [The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and fate, love and death, over the soup.

discussed, v. (7)

    Exp 3.64 24 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed...
    Wsp 6.201 2 Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    Boks 7.215 17 In novels the most serious questions are beginning to be discussed.
    SA 8.89 23 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was...discussed without possibility of offence...
    SA 8.102 7 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
    EWI 11.128 27 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies. From these reasons, the question [of slavery] was discussed with a rare independence and magnanimity.
    EdAd 11.391 21 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?

discussing, v. (2)

    F 6.3 2 ...our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
    Chr2 10.121 17 Goethe, in discussing the characters in Wilhelm Meister, maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...

discussion, n. (15)

    LT 1.270 21 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    Nat2 3.184 17 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.
    MoL 10.257 11 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom stifles this discussion as sentimental...
    CSC 10.373 6 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers... inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the Ministry.
    CSC 10.373 12 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the following year [1841], for the discussion of the second topic.
    CSC 10.374 2 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    CSC 10.376 27 ...although no decision was had, and no action taken on all the great points mooted in the discussion, yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    LVB 11.94 2 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    LVB 11.94 17 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact, which the discussion of this question [the relocation of the Cherokees] has disclosed...
    EWI 11.128 1 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.138 7 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    War 11.161 8 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact.
    FSLC 11.199 27 When a moral quality comes into politics...the discussion draws on deeper sources: general principles are laid bare...
    AKan 11.255 22 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
    FRep 11.527 12 The facility with which clubs are formed by young men for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the notoriety of the questions.

discussions, n. (2)

    NMW 4.249 26 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
    EWI 11.138 13 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].

disdain, n. (4)

    AmS 1.101 7 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...
    Hsm1 2.247 12 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    ET8 5.133 9 There are multitudes of rude young English...who, with their disdain of the rest of mankind and with this indigestion and choler, have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    Milt1 12.264 18 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.

disdain, v. (6)

    Nat 1.56 6 The astronomer, the geometer...disdain the results of observation.
    DSA 1.147 21 There are...persons...who disdain eloquence;...
    SR 2.48 24 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    ET11 5.178 1 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
    PPo 8.258 20 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    Let 12.398 15 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it.

disdained, v. (6)

    PPh 4.55 6 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    ET8 5.135 14 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...who never gave a dinner to any man and disdained all courtesies;...
    SlHr 10.441 16 ...[Samuel Hoar] disdained any arts in his speech...
    CInt 12.113 22 Archimedes disdained to apply himself to the useful arts...
    Bost 12.205 7 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who serves best. There was no secret of labor which they disdained.
    Milt1 12.267 3 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.

disdainful, adj. (2)

    PerF 10.82 4 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own.
    AgMs 12.358 7 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances;...

disdainfully, adv. (1)

    MoS 4.151 11 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.

disdaining, v. (4)

    MMEm 10.407 21 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,- disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    War 11.173 25 ...the man who...takes in solitude the right step uniformly, on his private choice and disdaining consequences,-does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    PLT 12.35 6 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth, disdaining speech, disdaining particulars;...
    PLT 12.35 7 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth...lurking, surly, invincible, disdaining thoughts...

disdains, v. (3)

    F 6.49 23 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...disdains words and passes understanding;...
    Prch 10.217 17 ...the mind, haughty with its sciences, disdains the religious forms as childish.
    Milt1 12.267 3 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.

disease, n. (52)

    LE 1.165 19 ...in [men] this disease of an excess of organization cheats them of equal issues.
    LT 1.281 23 A new disease has fallen on the life of man.
    Con 1.303 12 ...the existing world is not a dream...neither is it a disease;...
    Con 1.309 15 ...I know your ways; I know the symptoms of the disease.
    YA 1.389 20 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease...
    SR 2.79 3 ...men's prayers are a disease of the will...
    SR 2.79 4 As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
    Comp 2.105 22 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected...
    SL 2.155 21 The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health.
    Prd1 2.223 18 [Base prudence] is a disease like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed.
    Prd1 2.231 25 Appetite shows to the finer souls as a disease...
    Hsm1 2.249 5 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws...
    Hsm1 2.261 27 ...it behooves the wise man...to familiarize himself with disgusting forms of disease...
    OS 2.288 12 ...[scholars' and authors'] talent is...some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
    Cir 2.319 5 ...old age seems the only disease;...
    Exp 3.51 17 I knew a witty physician who...used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist...
    Exp 3.66 14 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    NER 3.268 1 The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
    SwM 4.97 13 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease.
    SwM 4.129 24 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    SwM 4.144 13 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's] betokens the disease...
    MoS 4.166 19 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease...
    NMW 4.228 7 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    F 6.45 17 ...as every man is...vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
    Pow 6.60 5 Health is good,--power, life, that resists disease, poison and all enemies...
    Pow 6.62 6 ...the rancor of the disease attests the strength of the constitution.
    Ctr 6.132 22 [Egotism] is a disease that like influenza falls on all constitutions.
    Wsp 6.202 3 If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    Wsp 6.217 18 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease...
    CbW 6.258 16 ...the poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
    SS 7.7 11 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    Suc 7.295 6 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    OA 7.324 1 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    OA 7.325 1 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst, which so easily overdo their office, and invite disease.
    PI 8.3 7 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    SA 8.106 3 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health.
    Comc 8.167 17 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard, that the laws of disease are as beautiful as the laws of health;...
    PC 8.233 22 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
    PerF 10.76 25 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet, gathering and giving. Any hoarding is tumor and disease.
    Supl 10.169 10 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words...
    SovE 10.190 25 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements, her deluges miasma, disease, poison;...
    SovE 10.192 19 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed.
    Prch 10.232 14 ...there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    MoL 10.247 12 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
    Bost 12.208 5 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.
    MLit 12.332 5 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease;...
    EurB 12.368 4 We have poets who write the poetry of society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of vice and disease.
    Let 12.397 27 There is an American disease, a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college education...
    Let 12.404 9 ...every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.
    Trag 12.406 18 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice, pain, disease...
    Trag 12.408 21 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals, and this in the particulars of disease, want, insecurity and disunion.
    Trag 12.415 27 This self-adapting strength [of our human being] is especially seen in disease.

diseased, adj. (5)

    SL 2.132 11 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    ET8 5.142 4 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered...
    MMEm 10.408 18 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    EWI 11.105 13 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased...
    MLit 12.311 3 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them, and give him to the midnight a sad, solitary, diseased man;...

diseases, n. (7)

    MN 1.191 17 Avarice, hesitation, and following, are our diseases.
    MoS 4.180 1 There are these, and more than these diseases of thought, which our ordinary teachers do not attempt to remove.
    F 6.7 1 The diseases...respect no persons.
    SS 7.13 10 For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
    EWI 11.105 16 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon, who attended the diseases of the poor.
    PLT 12.24 12 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they...are a sort of extension of the diseases of this particular person into you.
    II 12.85 9 Every constitution has its own health and diseases.

disembarked, v. (1)

    ET5 5.74 20 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England], erected his camps and towers...

disenchant, v. (2)

    Bty 6.288 8 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
    SovE 10.208 3 We cannot disenchant, we cannot impoverish ourselves, by obedience;...

disenchanted, v. (3)

    UGM 4.9 24 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer. Each must be disenchanted and walk forth to the day in human shape.
    UGM 4.34 4 Once you saw phoenixes: they are gone; the world is not therefore disenchanted.
    FSLN 11.244 8 Now at last we are disenchanted and shall have no more false hopes.

disenchants, v. (1)

    PerF 10.87 6 Fear disenchants life and the world.

disencumbering, v. (1)

    SR 2.87 3 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac, which consisted of falling back on naked valor and disencumbering it of all aids.

disengage, v. (3)

    Ctr 6.165 21 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
    Clbs 7.228 9 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder...is a wonderful relief.
    Let 12.404 12 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

disengaged, adj. (6)

    Lov1 2.187 12 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Nat2 3.183 4 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us...
    Ctr 6.135 1 [Our student] must have...a power to see with a free and disengaged look every object.
    Bhr 6.175 18 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
    SlHr 10.446 15 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    Trag 12.413 9 We must walk as guests in Nature; not impassioned, but cool and disengaged.

disengaged, v. (4)

    Int 2.326 12 Intellect...sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged.
    SS 7.13 5 ...this genial heat [of animal spirits]...is disengaged only by the friction of society.
    Chr2 10.116 2 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth (easily disengaged from their historical accidents which nobody wishes to force on us), the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    PLT 12.6 9 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is. The thought which was...part and parcel of the world, has disengaged itself...

disentangled, v. (2)

    Int 2.327 9 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    PPo 8.246 4 Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:/ No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl./

disentangling, v. (2)

    SwM 4.129 22 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    ET14 5.247 13 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...

disesteem, n. (1)

    Boks 7.197 26 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes, which brought it with the learned into a sort of disesteem;...

disesteem, v. (1)

    WSL 12.342 22 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.

disesteems, v. (1)

    Schr 10.275 11 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...

disfigured, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.171 8 ...each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured...
    ET1 5.19 6 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father, a plain, elderly, white-haired man...disfigured by green goggles.

disfranchise, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.388 4 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs. Nor have we cared to disfranchise ourselves.

disfranchised, v. (2)

    AmS 1.94 17 [The clergy] are often virtually disfranchised;...
    Wom 11.410 1 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...out of place they are disfranchised.

disfranchisement, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.114 14 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no disenfranchisement of woman...
    EWI 11.103 2 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with... disfranchisement;...

disgrace, n. (11)

    Nat 1.10 4 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life - no disgrace...which nature cannot repair.
    AmS 1.115 10 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit;...
    LE 1.178 4 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Tran 1.338 23 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
    Fdsp 2.216 20 It is thought a disgrace to love unrequited.
    Hsm1 2.253 1 What a disgrace is it to me to take note how many pairs of silk stockings thou hast...
    Hsm1 2.255 27 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification...
    Mrs1 3.133 8 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion, if not added as honor, then severed as disgrace.
    Schr 10.286 19 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...that [praise and fat living] also are disgrace and soreness to him who has them.
    FSLC 11.201 22 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well, but who feel the disgrace of the new legislation creeping like miasma into their homes... disown him...
    FRep 11.525 2 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity... mortified by the national disgrace...

disgrace, v. (2)

    SL 2.163 1 I desire not to disgrace the soul.
    SMC 11.361 6 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender,- Tell mother I will not disgrace her;...

disgraced, adj. (2)

    EWI 11.131 26 ...the farmers may brag their democracy in the country, but they are disgraced men.
    TPar 11.292 17 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights, with perverted learning and disgraced graces, rot and are forgotten...

disgraced, v. (3)

    LT 1.290 26 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we...disgraced the fair Day by a pusillanimous preference of our bread to our freedom.
    SwM 4.131 3 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied...
    MMEm 10.418 27 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced.

disgraceful, adj. (6)

    Chr1 3.98 23 It is disgraceful to fly to events for confirmation of our truth and worth.
    OA 7.320 16 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
    Aris 10.36 26 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    HDC 11.61 24 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    HDC 11.80 4 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    ACiv 11.297 16 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...

disgraces, n. (4)

    ET10 5.154 14 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses], as in most English books, are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    PI 8.67 27 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's],--our hopes, wants, pains, disgraces, described to the life...
    FSLC 11.182 15 One intellectual benefit we owe to the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.213 11 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...

disgracing, v. (1)

    Cour 7.261 12 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State.

disguise, n. (14)

    LT 1.267 20 To-day is a king in disguise.
    Hist 2.35 15 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry.
    Fdsp 2.205 13 ...we cannot find the god under this disguise of a sutler...
    Exp 3.53 26 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and in what disguise soever he shall appear.
    NR 3.244 10 ...men feign themselves dead...and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
    NR 3.246 4 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
    GoW 4.273 26 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks:--His very flight is presence in disguise/...
    Wsp 6.226 18 ...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life,-- now under one disguise, now under another...walk with him, step for step...
    Bty 6.304 11 My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise...
    Ill 6.324 22 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise.
    Clbs 7.237 17 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...
    Schr 10.277 13 I like to see a man of that virtue that no obscurity or disguise can conceal...
    ACiv 11.298 7 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and calls labor vile...
    Bost 12.193 2 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise;...

disguise, v. (3)

    ET4 5.71 20 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it. The horse finds out who is afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion.
    ET11 5.194 11 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen], as if the noble...had not learned to disguise his pride of place.
    EWI 11.139 3 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.

disguised, adj. (6)

    LT 1.291 13 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
    SS 7.11 5 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    Clbs 7.237 26 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun... etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily.
    PI 8.11 23 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised man...
    PerF 10.86 9 ...every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
    PLT 12.23 4 From whatever side we look at Nature we seem to be exploring the figure of a disguised man.

disguised, v. (5)

    Bhr 6.170 14 The nobility cannot in any country be disguised...
    WD 7.176 20 We owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and pedlers.
    SovE 10.208 13 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    ALin 11.333 12 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests;...
    PLT 12.43 7 I owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing me that gods are sitting disguised in every company.

disguises, n. (6)

    SL 2.166 16 We know the authentic effects of the true fire through every one of its million disguises.
    OS 2.270 12 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.287 1 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him, through all the disguises of ignorance...
    Elo1 7.86 18 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face through all the disguises that are put upon it...that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    WD 7.175 22 'T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
    PLT 12.36 13 [Pan] was only seen under disguises...

disgust, n. (21)

    AmS 1.114 23 Young men...are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire...
    AmS 1.114 25 Young men...die of disgust...
    Mrs1 3.137 20 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...
    Nat2 3.189 20 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.
    NER 3.274 9 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They...conceive a disgust at the indigence of nature...
    MoS 4.154 1 The inconvenience of this [sensual] way of thinking is that it runs into indifferentism and then into disgust.
    MoS 4.166 5 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...
    Wth 6.92 20 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust...but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    Wth 6.111 11 There are few measures of economy which will bear to be named without disgust;...
    CbW 6.255 12 ...evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust...
    Cour 7.260 11 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant, and bred disgust in those who would protect the victim.
    Res 8.143 14 The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...
    Imtl 8.333 7 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie.
    Edc1 10.136 23 ...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
    Plu 10.302 1 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.
    Plu 10.307 2 ...the logic of the sophists and materialists...fills us with disgust.
    Thor 10.478 22 [Thoreau] had a disgust at crime...
    EWI 11.104 18 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...the stomach rises with disgust, and curses slavery.
    EPro 11.319 22 ...slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.
    Milt1 12.273 10 ...[Milton] frequented no church; probably from a disgust at the fierce spirit of the pulpits.
    WSL 12.339 21 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and over-refinement.

disgust, v. (6)

    YA 1.369 8 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    Exp 3.53 9 The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness [of physicians].
    Mrs1 3.154 17 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    ET8 5.135 9 [The Englishman] says no, and serves you, and your thanks disgust him.
    Aris 10.43 14 ...the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
    MMEm 10.406 2 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies, for she knew she should disgust them soon...

disgusted, v. (8)

    GoW 4.279 15 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public...were disgusted.
    ET1 5.21 21 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room.
    Wsp 6.222 23 We are disgusted by gossip...
    DL 7.113 11 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear only to dissent and to be disgusted;...
    Schr 10.267 23 All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted...
    LLNE 10.369 14 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    MMEm 10.407 25 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures, and disgusted them by her impatience.
    FSLC 11.181 18 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame.

disgusting, adj. (4)

    Hsm1 2.261 27 ...it behooves the wise man...to familiarize himself with disgusting forms of disease...
    NER 3.261 19 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.
    UGM 4.4 16 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting...
    EWI 11.129 8 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].

disgusting, v. (2)

    F 6.23 10 ...nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves...
    WD 7.162 8 Our politics are disgusting;...

disgusts, n. (2)

    MN 1.215 1 To every reform, in proportion to its energy, early disgusts are incident...
    CPL 11.505 4 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life...

disgusts, v. (5)

    LT 1.275 22 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, each part of which now only disgusts...
    Pol1 3.221 15 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    ET11 5.186 21 [The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring classes...
    Pow 6.64 22 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    SMC 11.362 11 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.

dish, n. (4)

    SS 7.14 5 Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news or eating from the same dish.
    WD 7.178 2 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Thor 10.455 8 When asked at table what dish he preferred, [Thoreau] answered, The nearest.
    ACri 12.287 6 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...and steadily kept this coarseness to flavor a dish else too luscious.

dishearten, v. (4)

    Elo1 7.64 2 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it.
    Suc 7.310 13 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    PC 8.232 12 The community of scholars...dishearten each other by tolerating political baseness in their members.
    GSt 10.504 17 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man whom disasters, which dishearten other men, only stimulated to new courage and endeavor.

disheartened, v. (2)

    SR 2.76 5 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    NER 3.270 9 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened...

disheartening, adj. (1)

    FSLN 11.238 21 Slavery is disheartening;...

disheartens, v. (1)

    Nat 1.37 20 ...debt...which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...

dishes, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 3 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers:--And these were the dishes in which they brought to me, being hungry, the Sun and the Moon instead of Thee.

dishevelled, adj. (2)

    Trag 12.409 27 There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
    Trag 12.414 19 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

dishonest, adj. (5)

    MR 1.235 6 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part... abstaining from whatever is dishonest and unclean, to take each of us bravely his part...
    ET9 5.152 24 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name.
    Wth 6.85 8 Society is barbarous until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.
    Plu 10.313 7 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
    MMEm 10.420 6 Better anything than dishonest dependence...

dishonesties, n. (1)

    FRep 11.537 27 [Our civilization] is a wild democracy; the riot of mediocrities and dishonesties and fudges.

dishonesty, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.209 2 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.

dishonor, n. (8)

    Hsm1 2.254 18 The temperance of the hero proceeds from the same wish to do no dishonor to the worthiness he has.
    ET5 5.76 16 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    ET13 5.224 27 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as tending extremely to the dishonor of the Christian religion...
    FSLC 11.180 3 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable...
    FSLC 11.182 1 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?
    FSLC 11.214 6 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    PLT 12.48 3 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor.
    CInt 12.131 10 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself, and receive honor or dishonor according to the fidelity shown.

dishonorable, adj. (1)

    MR 1.241 4 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of...his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties;...

dishonored, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.131 20 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler;...the General Court is a dishonored body, if they make laws which they cannot execute.

dishonored, v. (3)

    Comp 2.120 3 The martyr cannot be dishonored.
    Wom 11.423 18 The fairest names in this country...have gone into Congress and come out dishonored.
    Scot 11.464 11 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.

dishonors, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.439 3 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...had no longer the will to drag his days through the dishonors of the long defeat...

disimagine, v. (1)

    PC 8.221 22 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...whose existence we cannot disimagine;...

disinclination, n. (3)

    ET1 5.18 8 ...[Carlyle] had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls...
    LS 11.23 18 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    EdAd 11.385 18 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and disinclination in our educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.

disindividualize, v. (1)

    Art2 7.48 20 The artist who is to produce a work...which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself...

disinfecting, v. (1)

    EPro 11.324 4 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to follow Southern leading.

disingenuousness, n. (1)

    NMW 4.251 19 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value, after all the deduction that it seems is to be made from them on account of his known disingenuousness.

disintegrated, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.180 6 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...
    MMEm 10.428 5 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual.

disinterested, adj. (5)

    Prch 10.228 3 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested...
    MMEm 10.405 2 ...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority.
    MMEm 10.410 1 ...we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims. Yet with intentions disinterested, though uncontrolled by proper reverence for others.
    MMEm 10.430 22 ...one secret sentiment of virtue, disinterested (or perhaps not), is worthy...
    SlHr 10.446 10 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.

disinterestedness, n. (3)

    Cour 7.253 4 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness... practical power...courage...
    JBS 11.280 21 ...it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.
    MAng1 12.235 22 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done. This disinterestedness and spirit...reminds one of the reward named by the ancient Persian.

disjoin, v. (1)

    ET3 5.43 8 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality.

disjoined, adj. (1)

    Let 12.399 26 I cannot conceive of a people more disjoined than the Germans.

disjoins, v. (1)

    PLT 12.44 22 Affection blends, intellect disjoins subject and object.

dislike, n. (9)

    YA 1.387 1 It is only their dislike of the pretender, which makes men sometimes unjust to the accomplished man.
    ET6 5.110 18 The English power resides also in their dislike of change.
    Ctr 6.140 18 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire! and I have noticed in some of this class a marked dislike of earthquakes.
    PI 8.25 9 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind. But this dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry.
    MMEm 10.427 8 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being...
    War 11.172 19 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare.
    FSLC 11.198 16 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...to whom the dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.
    ACiv 11.302 2 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    Let 12.399 7 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who, whilst they regard these young Athenians with suspicion and dislike, educate their own children in the same courses...

dislike, v. (8)

    Mrs1 3.137 23 Not less I dislike a low sympathy of each with his neighbor' s needs.
    MoS 4.157 27 ...great numbers dislike [the State]...
    MoS 4.170 25 We...dislike what scatters or pulls down.
    ET9 5.150 24 The English dislike the American structure of society...
    ET16 5.275 4 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...
    QO 8.203 22 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse...
    Aris 10.37 19 ...we dislike every mark of a superficial life and action...
    Aris 10.62 20 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist...contempt of the masses, contempt of Ireland, dislike of the Chartist.

disliked, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.128 2 I should add what is told of [Dr. Charles Chauncy],--that he so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent;...

dislikes, n. (1)

    WSL 12.338 23 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes are by no means culpable...

dislikes, v. (1)

    ET9 5.145 1 [The Englishman] dislikes foreigners.

dislimn, v. (1)

    PI 8.18 26 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains begin to dislimn, and float in the air.

dislocate, v. (1)

    Trag 12.409 7 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in startling array.

dislocated, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.383 18 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.

dislocated, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.228 21 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
    FSLC 11.199 1 [Webster's] final settlement has dislocated the foundations.

dislocating, v. (1)

    Comc 8.167 5 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.

dislocation, n. (6)

    Prd1 2.230 17 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature...
    Pt1 3.18 22 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that makes things ugly...
    SwM 4.140 17 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals,--which is dislocation and chaos.
    Wsp 6.229 16 To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once manifest; and the marks of it are only concealed from us by our own dislocation.
    QO 8.188 6 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
    Dem1 10.5 5 A dislocation seems to be the foremost trait of dreams.

dislocations, n. (1)

    Cir 2.314 1 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.

dislodged, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.230 9 ...cleave to the truth...and you gain a station from which you cannot be dislodged.

dislodges, v. (1)

    Insp 8.284 18 Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...

disloyalty, n. (2)

    ET10 5.154 15 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    Aris 10.57 9 The true aristocrat is he who is at the head of his own order, and disloyalty is to mistake other chivalries for his own.

dismal, adj. (10)

    ET11 5.192 27 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...
    Suc 7.309 9 Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall...
    SA 8.98 15 Never worry people...with dismal views of politics or society.
    Res 8.149 16 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...
    LLNE 10.364 4 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    EWI 11.107 16 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got entrance.
    FSLC 11.200 13 ...[Nemesis's] dismal way is to pillory the offender in the moment of his triumph.
    FSLN 11.233 23 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.
    AKan 11.256 11 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it?
    Bost 12.208 5 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.

Dismal Swamp, n. (3)

    Farm 7.150 17 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp.
    EPro 11.322 11 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    PLT 12.47 23 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.

dismantle, v. (1)

    War 11.157 16 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...

dismantled, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.163 10 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.

dismay, n. (3)

    Int 2.344 2 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season the dismay will be overpast...
    SS 7.5 3 [My friend's] dismay at his visibility had blunted the fears of mortality.
    FSLC 11.190 6 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.

dismay, v. (1)

    QO 8.198 18 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...

dismaying, adj. (2)

    PC 8.225 17 ...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
    Let 12.404 20 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...

dismiss, v. (8)

    LE 1.162 4 No more will I dismiss...the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky;...
    OS 2.293 5 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears...
    ET11 5.187 24 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions...
    Wth 6.107 23 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you.
    Wsp 6.236 27 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss her?
    SA 8.88 17 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He can then dismiss all care from his mind...
    MMEm 10.406 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them.
    Scot 11.464 4 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth, when, later, they come to dismiss finally their school-days' library, will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.

dismissed, v. (8)

    Mrs1 3.144 16 ...these [social lions] are monsters of one day, and to-morrow will be dismissed to their holes and dens;...
    GoW 4.283 22 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    Wsp 6.239 27 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    Wsp 6.240 2 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life. But the wise instinct asks, How will death help them? These are not dismissed when they die.
    OA 7.335 19 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice. Whitney dismissed them immediately.
    LLNE 10.334 9 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    HDC 11.80 8 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error, not yet dismissed to the moon, that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    CL 12.154 22 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from her care.

dismisses, v. (3)

    SR 2.45 21 ...[a man] dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
    ET14 5.245 24 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters...
    Bost 12.199 3 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the partakers to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

dismissing, v. (1)

    Comc 8.159 1 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All, and dismissing it with a benison.

dismount, v. (2)

    Nat 1.68 27 [Man's] eyes dismount the highest star/...
    ShP 4.215 3 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount and walk because his horses are running off with him in some distant direction...

dismounting, v. (1)

    AKan 11.261 8 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.

disobedience, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.345 7 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life,-or we die by sloth, by disobedience...

disobedient, adj. (3)

    DSA 1.132 12 [The divine bards] admonish me that...they were not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
    Elo2 8.122 20 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    Thor 10.464 18 ...whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

disobey, v. (2)

    FSLC 11.192 25 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity? As long as men have bowels, they will disobey.
    SMC 11.359 15 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men...neither dared nor wished to disobey him.

disobeyed, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.212 20 [The Fugitive Slave Law] must be abrogated and wiped out of the statute-book; but whilst it stands there, it must be disobeyed.

disobeys, v. (1)

    CInt 12.123 18 Falsehood begins as soon as [talent] disobeys...

disorder, n. (12)

    MN 1.206 7 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
    PNR 4.87 19 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he paints, in Timaeus, a god leading things from disorder into order.
    Ctr 6.134 10 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder.
    OA 7.324 25 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct, at the risk of disorder, grief and pain.
    SA 8.87 14 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    Elo2 8.129 9 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    Res 8.147 22 ...in earlier stages of the disorder [good sense] applies milder and nobler remedies.
    PerF 10.75 25 The thoughts, no man ever saw, but disorder becomes order where he goes;...
    HDC 11.47 2 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers.
    ACiv 11.299 12 ...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country, since the disorder of the less-civilized portion menaces the existence of the country?
    Trag 12.413 24 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken. The disorder of his neighbors appears to him universal disorder;...
    Trag 12.413 25 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken. The disorder of his neighbors appears to him universal disorder;...

disorderly, adj. (2)

    Edc1 10.158 3 Nobody [in the school] shall be disorderly...
    CSC 10.374 19 If the assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was disorderly, it was picturesque.

disorders, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.349 20 [Genius] must now set itself to raise the social condition of man and to redress the disorders of the planet he inhabits.
    HDC 11.71 15 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety, to suppress all riots, tumults, and disorders in said town...

disorganization, n. (2)

    Res 8.147 20 Disorganization [good sense] confronts with organization...
    FRep 11.543 12 No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner. Every one of these is the seed of vice, war and national disorganization.

disorganizations, n. (1)

    Nat 1.71 8 Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years.

disorganizes, v. (1)

    MoL 10.248 5 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

disorganizing, v. (1)

    MoS 4.158 2 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance; and the only defence set up, is the fear of doing worse in disorganizing.

disown, v. (7)

    Nat 1.70 26 We own and disown our relation to [nature]...
    QO 8.188 15 ...[people]...quote thoughts, and thus disown them.
    Insp 8.270 15 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story for the compassion or the repudiation of his descendants, who are all but unanimous to disown him.
    Prch 10.226 15 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    FSLC 11.201 27 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...
    PLT 12.55 15 We disown our debt to moral evil.
    MLit 12.309 2 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.

disowned, v. (2)

    SovE 10.185 18 ...in the voice of Genius I hear invariably the moral tone, even when it is disowned in words;...
    LLNE 10.330 10 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity, and therefore generally disowned...

disowns, v. (2)

    Chr2 10.115 4 The [moral] sentiment...disowns every superiority other than of deeper truth.
    Plu 10.302 15 [Plutarch] disowns any attempt to rival Thucydides;...

disparage, v. (6)

    LE 1.172 14 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
    SL 2.162 9 Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to disparage that man we are...
    Exp 3.84 15 People disparage knowing and the intellectual life...
    MoL 10.257 18 We will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.
    HCom 11.345 2 We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.
    CInt 12.118 23 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America.

disparaged, v. (2)

    AmS 1.89 6 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book...makes an outcry if it is disparaged.
    ET1 5.16 26 ...[Carlyle] disparaged Socrates;...

disparagement, n. (4)

    GoW 4.268 8 This disparagement [of speculative thought] will not come from the leaders, but from inferior persons.
    GoW 4.268 14 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for.
    ET17 5.297 17 I do not attach much importance to the disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.
    Ctr 6.137 9 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only on horses...

disparages, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.7 16 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... disparages such as say and do not...

disparaging, adj. (4)

    Lov1 2.174 4 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words.
    ET6 5.106 11 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    ET9 5.151 5 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
    FRO2 11.490 5 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...

disparaging, v. (1)

    ET9 5.146 10 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...

disparities, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.209 4 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which, beneath these disparities, unites them.
    NER 3.280 21 The disparities of power in men are superficial;...
    UGM 4.33 17 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    Wth 6.108 25 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.

disparity, n. (8)

    Nat 1.62 21 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
    Con 1.300 14 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself, so that when you remember what he was, and see what he is, you say, What strides! what a disparity is here!
    Exp 3.82 23 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity.
    Mrs1 3.143 16 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    NER 3.256 23 ...is there not a wide disparity between the lot of me and the lot of thee, my poor brother, my poor sister?
    CbW 6.260 22 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    Comc 8.160 7 ...[The man of the world's] perception of disparity...makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Mem 12.102 6 We learn early that there is great disparity of value between our experiences;...

disparted, v. (1)

    Comp 2.103 19 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially...

dispatch, n. (1)

    ET5 5.85 15 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.

dispatches, n. (1)

    Supl 10.167 10 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published: Here are twelve volumes of military dispatches, and the word glory is not found in them.

dispatches, v. (1)

    NR 3.237 27 ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence...

dispel, v. (2)

    Ill 6.324 15 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    SovE 10.202 8 ...in trying to dispel the illusions of his neighbor, [a man] opens his own eyes.

dispensation, n. (2)

    FRO2 11.488 11 I object, of course, to the claim of miraculous dispensation...
    ACri 12.283 15 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters, the new dispensation by Jesus, or by Angels;...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

dispense, v. (6)

    SR 2.74 22 ...if I can discharge [my own perfect circle's] debts it enables me to dispense with the popular code.
    Mrs1 3.123 7 ...that is a natural result of personal force and love, that they should possess and dispense the goods of the world.
    PC 8.219 10 ...in every wise and genial soul we have England, Greece, Italy, walking, and can dispense with populations of navvies.
    MMEm 10.420 26 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant, which no idler wind can so well dispense.
    CPL 11.508 8 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the sentiment,-and in their inspirations we dispense with books.
    CInt 12.112 13 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./

dispensed, v. (3)

    ET2 5.29 1 The confinement, cold, motion, noise and odor [at sea] are not to be dispensed with.
    ET10 5.158 20 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and the machine dispensed with the work of ninety-nine men;...
    Wom 11.409 21 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around...when we have become habituated to them, cannot be dispensed with.

dispenser, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.133 20 ...do not...imagine that a fop can be the dispenser of honor and shame.
    PPh 4.75 11 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    ShP 4.197 11 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world...

dispensing, v. (1)

    DSA 1.123 5 By [the moral sentiment] a man is made the Providence to himself, dispensing good to his goodness...

disperse, v. (1)

    Res 8.148 7 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.

dispersed, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.130 13 ...that assembly once dispersed, its members will not in the year meet again.
    F 6.43 27 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    Aris 10.37 16 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough...if their money or their family should be dispersed;...

disperses, v. (2)

    Dem1 10.5 4 There is a strange wilfulness in the speed with which [a dream] disperses and baffles our grasp.
    Aris 10.50 3 ...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we suffered.

dispersion, n. (3)

    Schr 10.287 9 [The scholar] has not consented to the frivolity, nor to the dispersion.
    LS 11.9 16 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews, who in their dispersion retain the Passover, a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    FSLC 11.211 16 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean Massachusetts in all the quarters of her dispersion;...

dispirited, adj. (1)

    ET19 5.313 12 I see [England] not dispirited, not weak...

dispiriting, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.116 7 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills. But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is dispiriting and drivelling.
    II 12.67 16 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading.

dispirits, v. (2)

    MoS 4.170 19 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line...dispirits us.
    Res 8.138 6 A philosophy sees only the worst;...dispirits us;...

displace, v. (3)

    Con 1.303 26 You are welcome...if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce...
    MoS 4.186 10 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...
    SHC 11.435 21 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants.

displaced, adj. (1)

    SS 7.10 14 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member.

displaced, v. (5)

    Con 1.305 26 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    Comp 2.95 23 ...our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.
    Chr1 3.99 17 Character is...the impossibility of being displaced or overset.
    PI 8.37 8 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things...displaced, or put in kitchen order, they are unpoetic.
    MAng1 12.236 9 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.

displaces, v. (1)

    YA 1.377 26 [Trade] displaces physical strength...

display, n. (17)

    AmS 1.99 20 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display.
    AmS 1.101 4 ...[the scholar]...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    DSA 1.147 20 There are...persons too great...for display;...
    LE 1.174 2 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd, for display, he is not in the lonely place;...
    LE 1.176 24 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is the lust of display...
    Fdsp 2.205 22 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...
    Hsm1 2.253 10 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside, reckon narrowly the loss of time and the unusual display;...
    OS 2.279 1 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses...and reserve all their display of wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.
    ET17 5.296 16 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any display.
    Ctr 6.155 4 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    Wsp 6.216 1 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...logic to rhythm and to display;...
    DL 7.111 23 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women...
    QO 8.193 5 ...the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed.
    Edc1 10.154 2 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Supl 10.173 21 ...the luminous object...is luminous because it is burning up; and if the powers are disposed for display, there is all the less left for use and creation.
    Prch 10.224 5 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents, which lose their way by the lust of display, to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
    MMEm 10.403 18 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so fertile, and only used to strike, that she never used it for display...

display, v. (3)

    LT 1.277 27 I cannot feel any pleasure in sacrifices which display to me such partiality of character.
    LT 1.284 3 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur...
    ACri 12.292 16 Dangerous words in like kind are display, improvement, peruse...

displayed, v. (4)

    DSA 1.119 14 The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily.
    NER 3.273 9 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
    Supl 10.177 11 The costume [of the East], the articles in which wealth is displayed, are in the same extremes.
    PPr 12.385 19 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.

displease, v. (6)

    ET6 5.102 23 [The English] dare to displease...
    ET8 5.136 6 [The English] dare to displease...
    Bty 6.300 14 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
    Imtl 8.330 1 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.
    MAng1 12.242 9 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael...if life pleases us, death, being a work of the same master, ought not to displease us.
    ACri 12.304 16 Don't set out to please; you will displease.

displeased, v. (4)

    Nat 1.49 2 The broker...the tollman, are much displeased at the intimation [that nature is more short-lived than spirit].
    Chr1 3.103 2 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it...
    Elo1 7.65 15 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they... pleased or displeased...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Carl 10.490 1 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...displeased and hindered by all men and things about him...

displeasure, n. (5)

    SR 2.56 1 For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.
    Comp 2.111 9 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him.
    Int 2.347 5 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory.
    PPo 8.238 11 Favor of the Sultan, or his displeasure, is [in the East] a question of Fate.
    EWI 11.114 1 The colonial legislatures [in the West Indies] received the act of Parliament with various degrees of displeasure...

disposal, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.235 19 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
    ET10 5.165 19 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    CbW 6.269 18 When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room, the society dissolves; one after another slips out, and the apartment is at his disposal.
    HDC 11.46 21 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the disposal of town lands;...

dispose, v. (27)

    AmS 1.95 14 ...I dispose of [the world] within the circuit of my expanding life.
    LE 1.172 2 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall...dispose of your world-containing system as a very little unit.
    Tran 1.352 4 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems...not so easy to dispose of the doubts and objections that occur to themselves.
    Exp 3.81 18 ...I cannot dispose of other people's facts;...
    Chr1 3.100 4 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer, and every inquirer will have to dispose of him, in the first place.
    Pol1 3.207 2 Every man owns something...and so has that property to dispose of.
    PPh 4.41 27 ...[the great man] can dispose of every thing.
    PPh 4.78 9 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    MoS 4.173 23 I shall take the worst [doubts and negations] I can find, whether I can dispose of them or they of me.
    GoW 4.271 12 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences, and by his own versatility to dispose of them with ease;...
    GoW 4.289 14 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET1 5.5 4 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    Ctr 6.136 13 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Elo1 7.92 5 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him.
    Cour 7.269 21 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all books.
    Imtl 8.348 14 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day;...
    SovE 10.193 17 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    MoL 10.252 25 There is no mass which [intellect] cannot surmount and dispose of.
    Schr 10.284 18 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Can you help any soul? Can he answer these questions? can he dispose of them?
    Schr 10.286 2 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget...
    MMEm 10.418 25 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor?
    HDC 11.44 21 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    EdAd 11.384 16 A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose of...is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
    EdAd 11.390 23 Can [a journal] front this matter of Socialism...and dispose of that question?
    CL 12.166 8 [Man] can dispose in his thought of more worlds, just as readily as of few, or one.
    PPr 12.380 4 ...the merit of seers is not to invent but to dispose objects in their right places...
    Let 12.392 11 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion. We shall be compelled to dispose very rapidly of quite miscellaneous topics.

disposed, adj. (5)

    Con 1.298 26 ...reform [is] more disposed to maintain and increase its own [worth].
    ET8 5.128 16 [The English]...even if disposed to recreation, will avoid an open garden.
    EWI 11.117 11 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges...
    SHC 11.431 22 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    FRep 11.527 5 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...disposed to give his children a better education than he received.

disposed, v. (19)

    Con 1.302 14 Here is the fact which men call Fate...not to be disposed of by the consideration that the Conscience commands this or that...
    Int 2.327 25 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions...
    Nat2 3.194 9 ...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
    NER 3.254 24 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    PPh 4.78 10 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    NMW 4.239 3 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself...
    ET16 5.279 20 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order, which refuses to be disposed of, suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    CbW 6.278 8 The man,--it is his attitude...in repose alike as in energy, still formidable and not to be disposed of.
    Ill 6.319 17 There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it?...
    DL 7.112 27 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time...
    Boks 7.191 19 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
    Cour 7.269 2 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and...by dealing with it as business which must be disposed of, he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Supl 10.173 20 ...the luminous object...is luminous because it is burning up; and if the powers are disposed for display, there is all the less left for use and creation.
    Schr 10.266 11 I am not disposed to magnify temporary differences...
    LLNE 10.344 26 The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
    EzRy 10.385 15 And at last we have this record [from Joseph Emerson], June 4th [1735]: Disposed of my shay to Rev. Mr. White.
    MMEm 10.406 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor.
    SHC 11.431 27 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...when they are disposed in masses...
    II 12.80 11 It was the saying of Pythagoras, Remember to be sober, and to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom.

disposes, v. (17)

    Nat 1.52 2 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea...and disposes them anew.
    MR 1.256 15 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices...
    Pt1 3.18 27 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Pt1 3.19 21 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway.
    UGM 4.22 4 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little...of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    SwM 4.142 13 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    ShP 4.212 21 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence, and which he disposes all to exhibit.
    GoW 4.262 10 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images of surrounding objects, is touched with life, and disposes them in a new order.
    Elo1 7.92 6 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him.
    Clbs 7.233 22 ...[Holmes (?)]...is of such genial temper that he disposes all others irresistibly to good humor and discourse.
    SA 8.82 11 ...thought disposes the limbs and the walk...
    Aris 10.46 8 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less. Neither do I wish to go into a vindication of the justice that disposes the variety of lot.
    Prch 10.232 16 Man proposes, but God disposes.
    Mem 12.96 7 The mind disposes all its experience after its affection...
    CL 12.148 3 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty...it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guests to the deference due to each.
    CW 12.175 23 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;-as it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guest to the deference due to each.
    PPr 12.379 8 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men, groups and disposes them with a master's mind...

disposing, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.172 24 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;...
    NMW 4.246 3 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
    QO 8.184 7 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
    FRep 11.536 21 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.

disposition, n. (30)

    LT 1.276 18 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force.
    Tran 1.353 27 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
    YA 1.367 2 ...with cheap land, and the pacific disposition of the people, everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
    YA 1.385 6 ...many people have...a genius for the disposition of affairs;....
    YA 1.385 17 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
    Int 2.340 16 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
    Mrs1 3.141 24 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great abilities the most social disposition and real love of men.
    NER 3.256 3 The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
    PPh 4.66 2 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste.
    ET9 5.149 5 ...the natural disposition is fostered by the respect which [the English] find entertained in the world for English ability.
    F 6.34 19 The Fultons and Watts of politics...by satisfying [the religious principle]...through a different disposition of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    Pow 6.63 7 ...the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Ctr 6.156 16 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Bhr 6.170 26 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding-school...or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
    Bhr 6.190 12 How do [men] get this rapid knowledge...of each other's power and disposition?
    CbW 6.264 7 ...the best part of health is fine disposition.
    Elo1 7.64 20 The Koran says, A mountain may change its place, but a man will not change his disposition;...
    Elo2 8.120 15 The voice...betrays the nature and disposition...
    Schr 10.284 20 Happy if you can answer [life's questions] mutely in the order and disposition of your life!
    Plu 10.316 4 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.
    MMEm 10.430 18 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say...that, whatever disposition of virtue may exist, unless something is done for society, deserves no fame,-why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    EWI 11.116 17 We were told that the dress of the negroes [in Antigua] on that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly simple and modest. There was not the least disposition to gayety.
    War 11.175 1 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    SHC 11.429 10 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground...and to put it at your disposition.
    PLT 12.62 4 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere...
    Milt1 12.264 16 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.272 5 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...
    Milt1 12.272 20 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition;...
    WSL 12.341 5 In these busy days...when there is so little disposition to profound thought...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    Pray 12.351 17 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of mine;...

dispositions, n. (8)

    LE 1.165 1 Able men, in general, have good dispositions...
    Con 1.325 2 ...these dispositions establish their relations to me.
    Con 1.325 11 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
    Mrs1 3.147 21 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native;...
    MoS 4.175 18 There is the power of complexions, obviously modifying the dispositions and sentiments.
    LLNE 10.346 15 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls, with peaceful and even with genial dispositions...
    MMEm 10.407 14 This seems a world rather of trying each others' dispositions than of enjoying each others' virtues.
    ACiv 11.306 9 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.

dispossess, v. (1)

    NER 3.276 14 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...to dispossess himself of what he has acquired...

disproportion, n. (7)

    Tran 1.341 6 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] feel the disproportion between their faculties and the work offered them...
    Lov1 2.186 6 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
    MoS 4.179 12 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    SA 8.83 27 Manners are...the betrayers of any disproportion or want of symmetry in mind and character.
    Comc 8.164 17 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it, and the sense of the disproportion is comedy.
    PerF 10.69 15 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature.
    PPr 12.385 23 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.

disproportionate, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.75 17 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.

disproportionately, adv. (2)

    NER 3.256 9 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
    Schr 10.278 10 A very little intellectual force makes a disproportionately great impression...

disproportioned, adj. (1)

    Con 1.303 1 ...Wisdom attempts nothing enormous and disproportioned to its powers...

disputable, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.51 19 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and--come of whatever disputable ancestry--the indisputable Englishman before me...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...

disputant, n. (6)

    PPh 4.73 17 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...
    Ctr 6.131 7 A topical memory makes [a man] an almanac; a talent for debate, a disputant;...
    Plu 10.308 15 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He...prefers to sit as a scholar with Plato, than as a disputant;...
    PLT 12.34 13 [Instinct] is...no disputant...
    II 12.65 17 ...[Instinct] is no newsmonger, no disputant, no talker.
    Milt1 12.251 27 We have lost all interest in Milton as the redoubted disputant of a sect;...

disputants, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.36 1 The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.

disputations, n. (2)

    Plu 10.305 23 Many [of Plutarch's discourses] are notes for disputations in the lecture-room.
    Plu 10.309 16 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations...

dispute, n. (5)

    Prd1 2.239 21 The natural motions of the soul are so much better than the voluntary ones that you will never do yourself justice in dispute.
    NR 3.231 5 In the famous dispute with the Nominalists, the Realists had a good deal of reason.
    Clbs 7.226 9 With some men [conversation] is a debate; at the approach of a dispute they neigh like horses.
    FSLC 11.208 15 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    AKan 11.262 13 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars, on the edge of your strip; and there was no dispute.

dispute, v. (5)

    Nat 1.4 14 ...religious teachers dispute and hate each other...
    PI 8.31 25 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and men of the world will invariably dispute such an application, as romantic and dangerous;...
    Aris 10.44 12 It were to dispute against the sun, to deny this difference of brain.
    MoL 10.245 23 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    PLT 12.24 6 There are those who disputing will make you dispute...

disputed, v. (8)

    Con 1.295 3 The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation...have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
    SR 2.65 9 [Man] may err in the expression of [his involuntary perceptions], but he knows that these things are...not to be disputed.
    Exp 3.65 5 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    NER 3.280 27 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    NMW 4.250 14 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
    ET2 5.32 24 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    EWI 11.147 10 Seen in masses, it cannot be disputed, there is progress in human society.
    FRO2 11.485 11 I think we have disputed long enough [about religion].

disputes, n. (3)

    SwM 4.136 15 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    Plu 10.309 15 Plutarch has such a keen pleasure in realities that he has none in verbal disputes;...
    HDC 11.45 23 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls...

disputing, v. (5)

    Nat 1.37 10 ...what disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest...
    QO 8.199 3 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    Aris 10.56 26 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words...
    PLT 12.24 5 There are those who disputing will make you dispute...
    Mem 12.102 26 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.

disqualification, n. (2)

    MR 1.233 24 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success.
    Wom 11.422 5 For the other point, of [women]...aiming at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].

disqualifications, n. (2)

    SS 7.13 15 In society, high advantages are set down to the individual as disqualifications.
    EWI 11.121 10 All disqualifications and distinctions of color have ceased [in Jamaica];...

disqualified, v. (1)

    TPar 11.287 2 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.

disqualifies, v. (3)

    MR 1.241 16 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    OS 2.278 7 The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
    Wth 6.116 14 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

disqualify, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.75 12 ...we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence.
    Wom 11.421 16 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended.

disqualifying, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.332 6 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...each has some disqualifying fault that throws him out of the career.

disquieting, adj. (1)

    LE 1.163 8 ...in the disquieting comparisons;...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...

disquietude, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.330 24 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence. This disquietude only marks the transition.

disquisitions, n. (2)

    Milt1 12.247 5 For a short time the literary journals were filled with disquisitions on [Milton's] genius;...
    Milt1 12.250 23 ...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...

Disraeli, Benjamin, n. (2)

    Boks 7.213 15 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to...Disraeli, Dumas...
    EurB 12.377 8 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume...

D'Israeli, Benjamin, n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 24 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Leigh Hunt, D' Israeli, Helps...

disregard, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.163 18 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    EWI 11.110 17 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.

disregard, v. (1)

    EWI 11.139 15 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard.

disregarding, v. (1)

    PPh 4.60 23 ...disregarding the honors that most men value...I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...

disregards, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.227 15 [As we grow older] We have...an insight which disregards what is done for the eye, and pierces to the doer;...

disrepectfully, adv. (1)

    PPo 8.251 22 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities...

dissatisfaction, n. (4)

    Tran 1.346 7 By their unconcealed dissatisfaction [youths] expose our poverty and the insignificance of man to man.
    Comp 2.96 9 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Prch 10.217 9 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition;...
    SHC 11.436 21 Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.

dissatisfied, adj. (3)

    JBS 11.277 8 Everything that is said of [John Brown] leaves people a little dissatisfied;...
    MAng1 12.232 24 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.
    Let 12.394 5 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...

dissatisfies, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.180 17 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...

dissatisfy, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.157 3 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions.
    Ctr 6.157 4 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions.

dissected, v. (2)

    MN 1.200 15 [The dance of the hours] will not be dissected, nor unravelled, nor shown.
    MMEm 10.426 1 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions...

dissecting-rooms, n. (1)

    SwM 4.101 24 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons...in ship-yards and dissecting-rooms.

dissection, n. (1)

    GoW 4.274 24 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us;...

dissector, n. (1)

    Hist 2.41 4 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

dissectors, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 22 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

dissemble, v. (3)

    DSA 1.122 19 If a man dissemble...he deceives himself...
    MR 1.228 2 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
    UGM 4.14 14 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.

dissembled, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.180 13 How many furtive inclinations avowed by the eye, though dissembled by the lips!

disseminated, v. (1)

    War 11.153 11 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally...all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.

dissent, n. (12)

    NER 3.251 16 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; composed...of all the soul of the soldiery of dissent...
    NER 3.255 10 In politics...it is easy to see the progress of dissent.
    NER 3.256 3 The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
    ET13 5.230 18 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they are only perpetuations of some private man's dissent...
    ET18 5.300 10 The Church [in England] punishes dissent, punishes education.
    F 6.30 11 [The hero's] approbation is honor; his dissent, infamy.
    Clbs 7.234 15 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself.
    PI 8.14 15 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
    LLNE 10.366 12 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
    HDC 11.31 10 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent...
    HDC 11.48 10 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.
    Bost 12.207 5 From Roger Williams...down to...William Garrison, there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

dissent, v. (3)

    DL 7.113 10 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear only to dissent and to be disgusted;...
    Clbs 7.234 11 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation.
    AKan 11.260 20 Is it to be supposed that there are no men in Carolina who dissent from the popular sentiment now reigning there?

dissented, v. (1)

    Pow 6.63 21 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were not those who knew better...

dissenter, n. (2)

    LT 1.268 18 It is the dissenter...who engages our interest.
    ET4 5.48 22 An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

dissenters, n. (2)

    ET18 5.300 12 Down to a late day, marriages performed by dissenters were illegal [in England].
    AKan 11.260 22 It must happen, in the variety of human opinions, that there are dissenters.

dissertation, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 10 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will?

disservice, n. (2)

    AmS 1.91 4 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done.
    SovE 10.200 16 A fatal disservice does this Swedenborg or other who offers to do my thinking for me.

dissimilitude, n. (1)

    Pray 12.357 5 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself... and I found myself to be far off, and even in the very region of dissimilitude from thee.

dissimulation, n. (4)

    SL 2.156 19 Dreadful limits are set in nature to the powers of dissimulation.
    Fdsp 2.202 18 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    Mrs1 3.136 4 No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation;...
    CbW 6.253 2 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Bacon, with life-long dissimulation;...

dissipate, v. (7)

    AmS 1.95 14 ...I dissipate [the world's] fear;...
    F 6.34 9 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to dissipate it, by amusing nations...
    SS 7.13 24 [Men] untune and dissipate the brave aspirant.
    DL 7.110 16 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    PI 8.73 6 The high poetry which shall...dissipate the dreams under which men reel and stagger...is deeper hid...
    Dem1 10.4 21 ...[dreams] dissipate instantly and angrily if you try to hold them.
    MLit 12.331 23 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which dissipate by dreadful melody all this iron network of circumstance...

dissipated, adj. (2)

    NR 3.246 26 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
    FSLN 11.217 7 ...I see what havoc it makes with any good mind, a dissipated philanthropy.

dissipated, v. (7)

    MN 1.199 21 If anything could stand still, it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted...
    Nat2 3.181 27 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
    Wth 6.118 13 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
    Wsp 6.204 17 ...the public and the private element...cannot be subdued except the soul is dissipated.
    Ill 6.323 4 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe.
    Aris 10.65 7 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    PLT 12.54 20 ...a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will;...

dissipates, v. (1)

    Hist 2.9 6 Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

dissipation, n. (7)

    Hist 2.23 9 ...this intellectual nomadism, in its excess, bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects.
    Pt1 3.28 19 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    Pow 6.73 27 The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation;...
    CbW 6.257 11 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    Ill 6.307 25 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild dissipation,/ And, out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    DL 7.121 14 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the theatre and premature freedom and dissipation...
    ALin 11.330 10 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...had never been spoiled by English insularity or French dissipation;...

dissipations, n. (1)

    Pow 6.74 1 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine;...

dissociation, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.326 19 It is the age...of dissociation...

dissolute, adj. (1)

    Con 1.325 16 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...

dissoluteness, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.250 17 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

dissolution, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.203 22 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Supl 10.164 7 If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth, he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.

dissolve, v. (5)

    LE 1.171 26 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that, like a menstruum, shall dissolve all theories in it;...
    OS 2.285 4 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    CbW 6.247 9 Sydney Smith said, A few yards in London cement or dissolve friendship.
    SS 7.12 16 'T is not new facts that avail, but the heat to dissolve everybody' s facts.
    MMEm 10.422 7 Dissolve the body and the night is gone...

dissolved, v. (7)

    Nat 1.55 22 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought;...
    Nat 1.71 14 Once [man] was permeated and dissolved by spirit.
    MR 1.255 8 ...one day...every calamity will be dissolved in the universal sunshine.
    SR 2.66 10 All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause...
    MoS 4.151 1 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes...
    GoW 4.272 27 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    Imtl 8.326 27 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which dissolved the poor corpse and nature also...

dissolves, v. (11)

    Nat 1.54 13 Again; The charm dissolves apace/...
    Cir 2.302 4 The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.
    Int 2.325 4 Water dissolves wood and iron and salt;...
    Int 2.325 4 ...air dissolves water;...
    Int 2.325 5 ...electric fire dissolves air...
    Int 2.325 6 ...the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    F 6.28 5 Thought dissolves the material universe...
    F 6.49 24 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...dissolves persons;...
    CbW 6.269 17 When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room, the society dissolves;...
    CL 12.141 16 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
    CL 12.154 8 The sea is the chemist that dissolves the mountain and the rock;...

dissolving, v. (1)

    Art2 7.37 9 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence.

dissuade, v. (3)

    NR 3.228 8 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience...to dissuade a too sudden surrender to the brilliant qualities of persons.
    Schr 10.286 21 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career.
    Schr 10.286 23 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship].

dissuaded, v. (6)

    PPh 4.43 27 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates, was easily dissuaded from this pursuit...
    SwM 4.140 3 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act or to find, but if he purposed to do somewhat not advantageous, it dissuaded him.
    ET7 5.123 3 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    OA 7.319 19 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...he was dissuaded by his friends, on account of the public convenience at that time.
    PerF 10.79 16 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work...
    HDC 11.56 2 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from removing...

dissuades, v. (1)

    NER 3.282 5 We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self within our eyes dissuades him.

dissuading, v. (1)

    Cour 7.260 6 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs, and dissuading all resistance...

dissuasion, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.260 27 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.

distance, n. (59)

    Nat 1.26 24 Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.
    Nat 1.46 10 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
    MN 1.218 12 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
    Tran 1.333 26 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say...
    YA 1.363 15 This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
    YA 1.363 22 Not only is distance annihilated...
    SR 2.59 3 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of at a little distance...
    SR 2.59 7 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
    Cir 2.311 22 The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer.
    Pt1 3.4 9 ...even the poets are contented...to write poems from the fancy, at a safe distance from their own experience.
    Pt1 3.10 23 Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before...
    Pt1 3.35 26 The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.
    Pt1 3.36 15 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    Exp 3.51 2 Of what use is genius, if the organ...cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
    Exp 3.74 20 [Just persons] believe...that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance;...
    Nat2 3.193 2 What splendid distance...in the sunset!
    Pol1 3.201 16 The history of the State...follows at a distance the delicacy of culture and of aspiration.
    NR 3.227 26 [A man with fine traits] is admired at a distance...
    UGM 4.27 24 [Geniuses] are very attractive, and seem at a distance our own...
    PPh 4.70 7 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    SwM 4.102 19 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...requires a long focal distance to be seen;...
    NMW 4.253 27 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris...
    ET10 5.154 26 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    F 6.7 10 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity...
    Bhr 6.178 14 When a thought strikes us, the eyes fix and remain gazing at a distance;...
    Bhr 6.186 1 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
    CbW 6.274 15 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree,--a few people at convenient distance...these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    Bty 6.282 2 The naturalist is led from the road by the whole distance of his fancied advance.
    SS 7.7 4 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.
    Civ 7.23 24 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.
    WD 7.185 2 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    Clbs 7.226 19 ...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.
    SA 8.81 16 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
    Comc 8.160 19 ...all falsehoods, all vices seen at sufficient distance... become ludicrous.
    Imtl 8.332 2 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Imtl 8.339 26 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired, by seeing them at a distance, a new mastery of the old thoughts...
    SovE 10.210 2 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    Plu 10.299 17 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him...
    LLNE 10.336 12 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system, which in turn was too minute to be seen at the distance of many stars which we behold.
    LLNE 10.349 9 [Brisbane's plan] was not daunted by distance...
    LLNE 10.351 6 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what gardens, what baths! What is not in one will be in another, and many will be within easy distance.
    Thor 10.453 18 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the height of mountains and the air-line distance of his favorite summits,- this, and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.463 21 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
    LVB 11.91 22 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi.
    EWI 11.128 14 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
    FSLC 11.180 3 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable...
    AsSu 11.252 2 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    SMC 11.369 25 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
    Shak1 11.449 15 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical...
    PLT 12.5 8 In astronomy, vast distance, but we never go into a foreign system.
    PLT 12.54 11 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is fast becoming sense, and we must flee again into the distance if we would laugh.
    CL 12.143 24 [In Illinois] You can distinguish from the cows a horse feeding, at the distance of five miles, with the naked eye.
    CL 12.146 21 Here [on Estabrook Farm]...the wide distance from any population is fence enough...
    CL 12.153 15 ...on the shore, at one rod's distance, [the sea] is changed into a beauty as of gems and clouds.
    Milt1 12.256 27 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes had come down from a greater distance of time...would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
    MLit 12.310 14 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him.
    PPr 12.382 5 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...
    PPr 12.387 20 The ancients are only venerable to us because distance has destroyed what was trivial;...
    PPr 12.387 27 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].

distanced, v. (1)

    Con 1.300 12 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself...

distances, n. (13)

    YA 1.363 21 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    YA 1.371 17 From Washington, proverbially the city of magnificent distances...through all its cities...[America] is a country of beginnings...
    Prd1 2.236 6 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither...
    Mrs1 3.138 27 ...at short distances the senses are despotic.
    ET14 5.236 3 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...their fancy and imagination and easy spanning of vast distances of thought...astonish...
    Civ 7.24 22 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    Clbs 7.230 8 Every metaphysician must have observed...that...thoughts commonly go in pairs; though the related thoughts first appeared in his mind at long distances of time.
    Suc 7.298 21 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods]; and his eye and step are tempted on by what hazy distances to happier solitudes.
    Edc1 10.130 15 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
    Thor 10.453 15 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.459 1 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    CPL 11.505 25 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    CPL 11.506 1 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun, that the squares of the times vary as the cubes of the distances.

distances, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.173 2 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him;...
    F 6.26 9 [The mind] distances those who share it from those who share it not.
    Chr2 10.97 27 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.
    Chr2 10.111 18 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground. So with the mordant Calvinism of Scotland and America. But this quoting distances and disables them...

distancing, v. (1)

    Aris 10.56 21 Man should emancipate man. He does so...by distancing him.

distant, adj. (39)

    Nat 1.10 19 ...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
    Nat 1.62 1 We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were, distant phenomena of matter;...
    LE 1.169 15 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    LT 1.272 22 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet, in some distant age...be executed by the hands.
    YA 1.367 21 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts...
    Hist 2.4 15 ...the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant...
    Hist 2.5 21 ...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
    SL 2.158 6 A stranger comes from a distant school, with better dress...
    Prd1 2.236 9 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    OS 2.270 13 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.273 23 ...we say that the Judgment is distant or near...
    Nat2 3.175 17 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    PNR 4.80 18 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    MoS 4.176 25 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places?
    ShP 4.196 25 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived; whether through translation...whether by travel in distant countries...
    ShP 4.215 4 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount and walk because his horses are running off with him in some distant direction...
    ET1 5.15 1 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant.
    ET4 5.50 22 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements.
    ET5 5.76 11 [These Saxons] have...the telescopic appreciation of distant gain.
    Wth 6.89 9 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors...of men in distant countries and in past times.
    Ctr 6.147 13 ...knowledge and fine moral quality [nature] lodges in distant men.
    Wsp 6.228 7 [St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
    CbW 6.267 16 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
    WD 7.168 13 [The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party;...
    WD 7.177 9 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
    PC 8.214 4 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names more distant...
    Imtl 8.331 26 ...as [the two men's] homes were widely distant from each other, it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    PerF 10.75 6 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    Prch 10.233 5 ...if the events in which we have taken our part shall not see their solution until a distant future, there is yet a deeper fact;...
    Schr 10.261 9 ...the society of lettered men is a university which...gathers in the distant and solitary student into its strictest amity.
    Plu 10.300 12 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships charm us...
    MMEm 10.413 16 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station;...
    MMEm 10.420 9 In 1830, in one of her distant homes, [Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    LVB 11.90 4 Even in our distant State some good rumor of [the Cherokees'] worth and civility has arrived.
    FSLC 11.180 6 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
    EPro 11.320 23 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the passionate conscience of women, the sympathy of distant nations,-all rally to its support.
    Wom 11.424 22 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next. It holds of high and distant causes...
    Bost 12.211 18 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!
    MAng1 12.244 15 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...

distant, n. (1)

    Suc 7.292 9 ...we dote on the old and the distant;...

Distant, n. (1)

    SR 2.82 17 ...our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow...the Distant.

distaste, n. (2)

    MoS 4.179 24 ...[the young spirit] went with [his thought] to the chosen and intelligent, and found...mere misapprehension, distaste and scoffing.
    ET5 5.76 9 [These Saxons] have the taste for toil, a distaste for pleasure or repose...

distasteful, adj. (5)

    Tran 1.343 26 ...it is a fidelity to this sentiment [Love] which has made common association distasteful to [Transcendentalists].
    ET6 5.112 25 Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful [in England].
    ET11 5.187 20 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
    Supl 10.168 5 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance are...distasteful;...
    Wom 11.419 6 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.

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