1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.

Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them.
South.

My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige.
Addison.

2. To release from obligation. [Obs.]

Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause.
Milton.

Disobligement
(Dis`o*blige"ment) n. Release from obligation. [Obs.]

Disobliger
(Dis`o*bli"ger) n. One who disobliges.

Disobliging
(Dis`o*bli"ging) a.

1. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.

2. Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] Cov. of Tongue.

Dis`o*bli"ging*ly, adv.Dis`o*bli"ging*ness, n.

Disoccident
(Dis*oc"ci*dent) v. t. To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.

Disoccupation
(Dis*oc`cu*pa"tion) n. The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]

Disopinion
(Dis`o*pin"ion) n. Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

Disoppilate
(Dis*op"pi*late) v. t. [L. dis- + oppilatus, p. p. of oppilare to shut up.] To open. [Obs.] Holland.

Disorb
(Dis*orb") v. t. [Pref. dis- + orb.] To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere. Shak.

Disord
(Dis*ord") n. Disorder. [Obs.] Holland.

Disordeined
(Dis`or*deined") a. [See Ordain.] Inordinate; irregular; vicious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Disorder
(Dis*or"der) n. [Pref. dis- + order: cf. F. désordre.]

1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Pope.

3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. Shak.

4. Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy or of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." Locke.

Syn. — Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle; disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness; ailment; malady; distemper. See Disease.


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