DIS , a prefix or inseparable preposition, from the Latin, whence Fr. Des, Sp. dis and de may in some instances be the same word contracted. dis denotes separation, a parting from; hence it has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. In some cases, it still signifies separation, as in distribute, disconnect.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
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2. A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever.
3. A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-.
of Disability
1. Want of competent natural or bodily power, strength or ability; weakness; impotence; as disability arising from infirmity or broken limbs.
2. Want of competent intellectual power or strength of mind; incapacity; as the disability of a deranged person to reason or to make contracts.
3. Want of competent means or instruments. [In this sense, inability is generally used.]
4. Want of legal qualifications; incapacity; as a disability to inherit an estate, when the ancestor has been attainted. [In this sense, it has a plural.]
5. DISABILITY differs from inability, in denoting deprivation of ability; whereas inability denotes destitution of ability, either by deprivation or otherwise.
1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
1. To render unable; to deprive of competent natural strength or power. A man is disabled to walk by a broken or paralytic leg, by sickness, etc.
2. To deprive of mental power, as by destroying or weakening the understanding.
3. To deprive of adequate means, instruments or resources. A nation may be disabled to carry on war by want of money. The loss of a ship may disable a man to prosecute commerce, or to pay his debts.
4. To destroy the strength; or to weaken and impair so as to render incapable of action, service or resistance. A fleet is disabled by a storm, or by a battle. A ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or spars.
5. To destroy or impair and weaken the means which render any thing active, efficacious or useful; to destroy or diminish any competent means.
6. To deprive of legal qualifications, or competent power; to incapacitate; to render incapable.
Lacking ability; unable.
1. To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.
2. To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.
3. To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.
Deprived of competent power, corporeal or intellectual; rendered incapable; deprived of means.
Weakness; disability; legal impediment.
Deprivation of ability; incapacity.
Rendering unable or incapable; depriving of adequate power or capacity, or of legal qualifications.
1. disabuze. [ See Abuse .] To free from mistake; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. It is our duty to disabuse ourselves of false notions and prejudices.
2. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, hypocrisy and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.
Disabuzed. Undeceived.
Disabuzing. Undeceiving.
of Disabuse
To put to inconvenience.
To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
A state of being unaccommodated; a state of being unprepared.
A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.
To refuse assent. [Not used.]
Disagreement.
To refuse to assent.
Not accordant.
To neglect familiar or customary practice; to destroy the force of habit by disuse.
To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.
Disused; having neglected practice or familiar use.
To free from acid.
To deny; to disown.
To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.
Denied; disowned.
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837 KJV and 1,348 BSB verses contain “dis” — showing the first 20. Show all 1,733 verses (searchable)
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”