Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. NWAD DISCOURTESY.2
1. Literally, to uncover; to remove a covering. Isaiah 22:8. NWAD DISCOVER.2
2. To lay open to the view; to disclose; to show; to make visible; to expose to view something before unseen or concealed. NWAD DISCOVER.3
Go, draw aside the curtains and discover the several caskets to this noble prince. NWAD DISCOVER.4
He discovereth deep things out of darkness. Job 12:22. NWAD DISCOVER.5
Law can discover sin, but not remove. NWAD DISCOVER.6
3. To reveal; to make known. NWAD DISCOVER.7
We will discover ourselves to them. 1 Samuel 14:8. NWAD DISCOVER.8
Discover not a secret to another. Proverbs 25:9. NWAD DISCOVER.9
4. To espy; to have the first sight of; as, a man at mast-head discovered land. NWAD DISCOVER.10
When we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand. Acts 21:3. NWAD DISCOVER.11
5. To find out; to obtain the first knowledge of; to come to the knowledge of something sought or before unknown. Columbus discovered the variation of the magnetic needle. We often discover our mistakes, when too late to prevent their evil effects. NWAD DISCOVER.12
6. To detect; as, we discovered the artifice; the thief, finding himself discovered, attempted to escape. NWAD DISCOVER.13
Discover differs from invent. We discover what before existed, though to us unknown; we invent what did not before exist. NWAD DISCOVER.14
1. That may be discovered; that may be brought to light, or exposed to view. NWAD DISCOVERABLE.2
2. That may be seen; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope. NWAD DISCOVERABLE.3
3. That may be found out, or made known; as, the scriptures reveal many things not discoverable by the light of reason. NWAD DISCOVERABLE.4
4. Apparent; visible; exposed to view. NWAD DISCOVERABLE.5
Nothing discoverable in the lunar surface is ever covered. NWAD DISCOVERABLE.6
1. One who discovers; one who first sees or espies; one who finds out, or first comes to the knowledge of something. NWAD DISCOVERER.2
2. A scout; an explorer. NWAD DISCOVERER.3
1. The action of disclosing to view, or bringing to light; as, by the discovery of a plot, the public peace is preserved. NWAD DISCOVERY.2
2. Disclosure; a making known; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his estate and effects. NWAD DISCOVERY.3
3. The action of finding something hidden; as the discovery of lead or silver in the earth. NWAD DISCOVERY.4
4. The act of finding out, or coming to the knowledge of; as the discovery of truth; the discovery of magnetism. NWAD DISCOVERY.5
5. The act of espying; first sight of; as the discovery of America by Columbus, or of the Continent by Cabot. NWAD DISCOVERY.6
6. That which is discovered, found out or revealed; that which is first brought to light, seen or known. The properties of the magnet were an important discovery. Redemption from sin was a discovery beyond the power of human philosophy. NWAD DISCOVERY.7
7. In dramatic poetry, the unraveling of a plot, or the manner of unfolding the plot or fable of a comedy or tragedy. NWAD DISCOVERY.8
1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem; applied to persons or things. Frauds in manufactures bring them into discredit. NWAD DISCREDIT.2
It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession. NWAD DISCREDIT.3
2. Want of belief, trust or confidence; disbelief; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit. NWAD DISCREDIT.4
1. To disbelieve; to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; as, the report is discredited. NWAD DISCREDIT.6
2. To deprive of credit or good reputation; to make less reputable or honorable; to bring into disesteem; to bring into some degree of disgrace, or into disrepute. NWAD DISCREDIT.7
He least discredits his travels, who returns the same man he went. NWAD DISCREDIT.8
Our virtues will be often discredited with the appearance of evil. NWAD DISCREDIT.9
3. To deprive of credibility. NWAD DISCREDIT.10
1. Prudent; wise in avoiding errors or evil, and in selecting the best means to accomplish a purpose; circumspect; cautious; wary; not rash. NWAD DISCREET.2
It is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to society. NWAD DISCREET.3
Let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise. Genesis 41:33. NWAD DISCREET.4
There is no real discrepancy between these tow genealogies. NWAD DISCREPANCE.2
1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. Discrete proportion is when the ratio of two or more pairs of numbers or quantities is the same, but there is not the same proportion between all the numbers; as 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6, as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 is to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion, as 3:6::12:24. NWAD DISCRETE.2
2. Disjunctive; as, I resign my life, but not my honor, is a discrete proposition. NWAD DISCRETE.3
1. Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution; nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding ones own conduct. NWAD DISCRETION.2
A good man--will guide his affairs with discretion. Psalm 112:5. NWAD DISCRETION.3
My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion. Proverbs 3:21. NWAD DISCRETION.4
2. Liberty or power of acting without other control than ones own judgment; as, the management of affairs was left to the discretion of the prince; he is left to his own discretion. Hence, NWAD DISCRETION.5
To surrender at discretion, is to surrender without stipulation or terms, and commit ones self entirely to the power of the conqueror. NWAD DISCRETION.6
3. Disjunction; separation. [Not much used.] NWAD DISCRETION.7
1. Disjunctive; noting separation or opposition. In logic, a discretive proposition expresses some distinction, opposition or variety, by means of but, though, yet, etc.; as, travelers change their climate, but not their temper; Job was patient, though his grief was great. NWAD DISCRETIVE.2
2. In grammar, discretive distinctions are such as imply opposition or difference; as, not a man, but a beast. NWAD DISCRETIVE.3
3. Separate; distinct. NWAD DISCRETIVE.4
1. To distinguish; to observe the difference between; as, we may usually discriminate true from false modesty. NWAD DISCRIMINATE.2
2. To separate; to select from others; to make a distinction between; as, in the last judgment, the righteous will be discriminated from the wicked. NWAD DISCRIMINATE.3
3. To mark with notes of difference; to distinguish by some note or mark. We discriminate animals by names, as nature has discriminated them by different shapes and habits. NWAD DISCRIMINATE.4
1. To make a difference or distinction; as, in the application of law, and the punishment of crimes, the judge should discriminate between degrees of guilt. NWAD DISCRIMINATE.6
2. To observe or note a difference; to distinguish; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption. NWAD DISCRIMINATE.7
1. Separating; distinguishing; marking with notes of difference. NWAD DISCRIMINATING.2
2. a. Distinguishing; peculiar; characterized by peculiar differences; as the discriminating doctrines of the gospel. NWAD DISCRIMINATING.3
3. a. That discriminates; able to make nice distinctions; as a discriminating mind. NWAD DISCRIMINATING.4
1. The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as the discrimination between right and wrong. NWAD DISCRIMINATION.2
2. The state of being distinguished. NWAD DISCRIMINATION.3
3. Mark of distinction. NWAD DISCRIMINATION.4
1. That makes the mark of distinction; that constitutes the mark of difference; characteristic; as the discriminative features of men. NWAD DISCRIMINATIVE.2
2. That observes distinction; as discriminative providence. NWAD DISCRIMINATIVE.3
Neither does this effect of the independence of nations disculpate the author of an unjust war. NWAD DISCULPATE.2
1. Moving or roving about; desultory. NWAD DISCURSIVE.2
2. Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty. NWAD DISCURSIVE.3
1. A quoit; a piece of iron, copper or stone, to be thrown in play; used by the ancients. NWAD DISCUS.2
2. In botany, the middle plain part of a radiated compound flower, generally consisting of small florets, with a hollow regular petal, as in the marigold and daisy. NWAD DISCUS.3
3. The face or surface of the sun or moon. [See Disk.] NWAD DISCUS.4
1. To disperse; to scatter; to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumor; a medical use of the word. NWAD DISCUSS.2
2. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for the purpose of separating truth from falsehood. We discuss a subject, a point, a problem, a question, the propriety, expedience or justice of a measure, etc. NWAD DISCUSS.3
3. To break in pieces. [The primary sense, but not used.] NWAD DISCUSS.4
4. To shake off. [Not in use.] NWAD DISCUSS.5
1. In surgery, resolution; the dispersion of a tumor or any coagulated matter. NWAD DISCUSSION.2
2. Debate; disquisition; the agitation of a point or subject with a view to elicit truth; the treating of a subject by argument, to clear it of difficulties, and separate truth from falsehood. NWAD DISCUSSION.3
Whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Job 30:1. NWAD DISDAIN.2
How my soul is moved with just disdain. NWAD DISDAIN.4
1. Full of disdain; as disdainful soul. NWAD DISDAINFUL.2
2. Expressing disdain; as a disdainful look. NWAD DISDAINFUL.3
3. Contemptuous; scornful; haughty; indignant. NWAD DISDAINFUL.4
Disdiapason diapente, a cocord in a sectuple ratio of 1:6. NWAD DISDIAPASON.2
Disdiapason semi-diapente, a compound concord in the proportion of 16:3. NWAD DISDIAPASON.3
Disdiapason ditone, a compound consontance in the proportion of 10:2. NWAD DISDIAPASON.4
Disdiapason semi-ditone, a compound concord in the proportion of 24:5. NWAD DISDIAPASON.5
1. In its primary sense, pain, uneasiness, distress, and so used by Spenser; but in this sense, obsolete. NWAD DISEASE.2
2. The cause of pain or uneasiness; distemper; malady; sickness; disorder; any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound. The first effect of disease is uneasiness or pain, and the ultimate effect is death. A disease may affect the whole body, or a particular limb or part of the body. We say a diseased limb; a disease in the head or stomach; and such partial affection of the body is called a local or topical disease. The word is also applied to the disorders of other animals, as well as to those of man; and to any derangement of the vegetative functions of plants. NWAD DISEASE.3
The shafts of disease shoot across our path in such a variety of courses, that the atmosphere of human life is darkened by their number, and the escape of an individual becomes almost miraculous. NWAD DISEASE.4
3. A disordered state of the mind or intellect, by which the reason is impaired. NWAD DISEASE.5
4. In society, vice; corrupt state of morals. Vices are called moral diseases. NWAD DISEASE.6
A wise man converses with the wicked, as a physician with the sick, not to catch the disease, but to cure it. NWAD DISEASE.7
5. Political or civil disorder, or vices in a state; any practice which tends to disturb the peace of society, or impede or prevent the regular administration of government. NWAD DISEASE.8
The instability, injustice and confusion introduced into the public councils have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. NWAD DISEASE.9
1. To interrupt or impair any or all the natural and regular functions of the several organs of a living body; to afflict with pain or sickness to make morbid; used chiefly in the passive participle, as a diseased body, a diseased stomach; but diseased may here be considered as an adjective. NWAD DISEASE.11
2. To interrupt or render imperfect the regular functions of the brain, or of the intellect; to disorder; to derange. NWAD DISEASE.12
3. To infect; to communicate disease to, by contagion. NWAD DISEASE.13
4. To pain; to make uneasy. NWAD DISEASE.14
1. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as diseaseful climate. NWAD DISEASEFUL.2
2. Occasioning uneasiness. NWAD DISEASEFUL.3
1. Divested of the body; as disembodied spirits or souls. NWAD DISEMBODIED.2
2. Separated; discharged from keeping in a body. NWAD DISEMBODIED.3
1. To divest of body; to free from flesh. NWAD DISEMBODY.2
2. To discharge from military array. NWAD DISEMBODY.3
Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, and through nine channels disembogues his waves. NWAD DISEMBOGUE.2
1. To flow out at the mouth, as a river; to discharge waters into the ocean, or into a lake. Innumerable rivers disembogue into the ocean. NWAD DISEMBOGUE.4
2. To pass out of a gulf or bay. NWAD DISEMBOGUE.5
Disemboweled web. NWAD DISEMBOWELED.2
Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. NWAD DISENCHANT.2
1. To free from encumbrance; to deliver from clogs and impediments; to disburden; as, to disencumber troops of their baggage; to disencumber the soul of its body of clay; to disencumber the mind of its cares and griefs. NWAD DISENCUMBER.2
2. To free from any obstruction; to free from any thing heavy or unnecessary; as a disencumbered building. NWAD DISENCUMBER.3