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i Sort of Lepra " s form'd, Perforation obftrticted, S3c Add, that this fcurfy Skin proves a Harbour for Vermine, which live both on the Bark and Tree.

11. The Worm, a little Animal generated in the corrupted Subftance of the Bark, Bloflbms, Fruit-Leaves, Pith, and Roots. Mr. Gentil mentions another Kind, call'd Cock- ifjaffers, which ftick to the Roots of young tender Trees, and Bark, and kill them. There is a third Sort, call'd ■ Breezes, or Gad-flics, which gnaw the Roots. The Worm is a very frequent Difeafe ; whereby young hopeful Trees are all of a f'udden brought to languim, and decay.

12. Rotten Roots, occafion'd chiefly by their being planted too deep. This Difeafe is incurable.

Ij. 'Blights. A particular Account whereof, fee under

DISEMBOGUE. When a Ship pafTeth out of the Mouth of feme Gulph, they call it difemboguiug : They fay alfo of a River, that at fuch a Place, or after it has run fo many Leagues, it difembogues it felf into the Sea.

DISFRANCHISE, the contrary to Enfranchise ; Mini- fying the taking away one's Freedom, or Privilege. See Enfranchise.

DISHERISON, an old Word of the fame Import smD/f- inheriting.

Our Lord the King, confidering his o-xn Damage, and Diflierifon of the Crown, &c. Stat. 8. Rich. II. Hen. IV.

DISHER1TOR, a Perfon who difinherits, or puts an- other out of his Inheritance.

P"he Sheriff fhatt forthwith be funijh'd as aDifheritor of our Lord the King, and his Crown. Stat. 3. Edit. I.

DISJUNCT Proportion. Sec Discrete Proportion.

DISJUNCTIVE, fomething that feparatcs, or disjoins.

Thus Or and Neither are call'd DisjunBiveConjuuBions, which, in binding a Difcourfe, do yet feparate the Parts' thereof. See Conjunction.

jfut C<efar, aut Nulhts ; Either Gefar, or nothing. He neither advanced, nor gave back.

DisjnnBive Conjunctions may alfo be call'd Partitive, Difiribntive, and Alternative.

Disjunctive Proportions, inLogic, are compound Pro- pofitions cor.fifting of two Members, or Parts connected by a Disjin.Bive Conjunction. See Proposition.

The firft Ptopofition of a 'Dilemma is always a Dis- Wnttive Proportion :

You mtlft either obey the King, or be a Rebel. But you mvft not be a Rebel, 'therefore you mufl, obey the King.

DISK. See Disc.

DISLOCATION, the putting a Bone out of Joint, by {time Violence ; ufually call'd by the Phyficians, Luxation. See Luxation.

DISMEMBER'D, in Heraldry, is applied to Birds that have neither Feet, nor Legs : As alfo to Lions, and other Animals, whofe Members are feparated.

DISMES, Decimce, in our Law -Books, Tubs. See Tith.

DISMOUNTING, in the Military Art, the Aft of Un-

horfi.g.

Thus, to difmount the Cavalry, is to make 'em a-light.

They alfo fay to difmount the Canon, when they are thrown off the Carriages, and broken 5 Horfes arc alfo dif- mcunted when they are render'd unfit for Service.

DISORIENTATED, a Term applied to a Thing that is turned from the Eaft, or fome other of the Cardinal Points. See Cardinal Point.

The Dials drawn on this Stone, do not go well, by reafon it has been moved, and diforientated : It no longer looks Eaft and Weft.

But the Word is mod frequently us'd in a figurative Senfe, for the Dif concerting, or putting a Man out of his Way, or Element. Speak of Law to a Phyfician, or of Phyfic to a Lawyer, and they will all be diforientated.

An. Marvel ufes the Word difoccidentated, inflead of dif- orientated.

Geneva had difoccidentated cur Geographer.

The Word is form'd of the privative Particle de, and Oriens, Eaft.

DISPARAGEMENT, is properly ufed for the Matching an Heir, iSc. in Marriage, below his, or her Degree, or Con- dition ; or againft the Rules of Decency.

The Word is a Compound of the privative Particle Dis, and Par, equal.

DISPATCH, a Letter on fome Affair of State, or other Bufinefs of Importance, fent, with Care and Expedition, by a Courier exprefs.

The Bufinefs of Difpatches lies on the Secretaries of State, and their Clerks. The King gives Ditections to his Mini- ftcrs abroad by Difpatches.

The Word is alfo us'd for the Packet, or Mail contain- ing fuch Letters. 1"he Courier has deliver'd his Dif- patches.

The French, during the Reign of the late Louts XIV. 1? A £ Co f e ' l i" ^teches. Council of Difpatches, held in the King s Prefence, at which the Dauphin, the Duke cfOr- leaus, the Chancellour, and four Secretaries of State affiffcd '

DISPAUPER. When any Perfon, by reafon of his Po- verty, (attefted by his own Oath, of not being worth 5 Pound his Debts being pay'd) is admitted to fue in Forma Pati- pern; If afterwards, before the Suit be ended, the fame Party have any Land, or perfonal Eftate fall to him ; or that the Court, wherein his Suit is depending, thinks fit for that, or other reafon, to take away the Privilege from him; he is then faid to be dif pouter' d. See Forma Pau- peris.

DISPENSARY, or, as fome write it, DISPENSATORY a Name given to divers Collections of compound Medicines' wherein are fpecified the Ingredients, Proportions, and the chief Circumftanccs of the Preparation and Mixture 5 the fame with what we otherwife call a Pharmacopoeia, or Mntidotary

Such are At Diffenfaries of Mefue, Cordus, the College of Phyficians at London, ghuncy, &c.

The Apothecaries, in and about London, are ob'lig'd to make up their compound Medicines according to th? For- mules prefenb d in the College Difpenfary ; ancl are enjoyn'd to keep always ready in their Shops all the Medicines' there enumerated. *

Dispensary, is likewifc ufed for a Magazin, or Office of Medicines kept ready ,0 be difpenfed at the prime Coft of the Ingredients, for the Benefit of the fick Poor

Of which Kind we have two or three in London maintain d by the College of Phyficians. One at the

£ $! ' A J ^ b °? U ?, in thc Year lS ? ff 5 another in St. Peter* Alley Cornhill ; and a third in St. Martin's Lane: where the heft Medicines are fold for their in- trinfic Value, and Patients are advifed every Day but Sun- day, atone of the three Places. See College '

DISPENSATION, in Law, ®c. a Permiffion to do fome- thing contrary to the Handing Laws : Or a Relaxation, or Sufpenfion of a Law on fome juft Occafion.

Some confound Difpenfatiou with Equity; but they are '")„ ™ rat Things: For Equity is only the Correction, or Modification of a Law, which is too neneral ■ But a Diffenfation fufpends the Obligation of the Law it felf and can, therefore, be only given by the Lcgiilative Power! See Eqjiity.

The King grants Diffenfatious of Age to fome Officers to be admitted before the Legal Ace.

But the greateft Dealer in" Difpenfations is the Pope who claims the Office Jure divino, and extends it to every Thing. Indeed, thc more fober of the Romanics themselves deny, that he can give a Difpenfation for a Thing contrary either to the divine Law, or the Law of Nature ; and confine him to what is contrary to pofitivc Laws, as to Things relating to Faffs, Marriages, holdino feveral Benefices, Be. And even in thefc Thin"s they put Bounds : Thus, fay they, a Difpenfation in the firft De- gree of Affinity, as of Father and Daughter, Brother and Sifter, would be abufive, and null. But 'tis certain the Papal Sec does not apprehend it felf under anv fuch fevere Reftriciions.

JF be R 'S ht, of g»™g difpenfations, they thus ar<me ■ 1 is certain, the Church has a Power to make Laws • A Power, which the Apoftlcs themfclves exercifed, and which their Succeflors have continued to excrcife after them Who ever can make a Law, can annul it ; and much more can he itifpenfe with it in certain Cafes : The Church, then may dlffenfe with the Laws it felf has made • And we" find it to have done accordingly, in all Ages. In the firft Times it left it to the Judgment of the Bifhops to difpenfe with the Length of the Penance enjoyn'd by the Canon. And the IV Council of Carthage allows of L Tra.Z n of Bifhops, andPriefts, when the Churches Occafion fh ou ld require it.

The Author of aTreatife of Difpenfations, printed in 1713, reduces all the Caufes :of Difpenfation to theNeceffity and public Service of the Church, and not to the private Advantages of the Perrons who follicit the Difpenfation ; otherwife, Caufes, he obferves, will never be wantini

The fame Author maintains, that Difpenfationf'slmuli be difpatch.d gratis : Maroelhts II. he obferves, was re- folvdto have it fo. That Pope ufed to fay that if jZfc£ fenfations were juft, they fhould be granted gratis; and if unjuft, they were to be refufed. And Pope Pius V. refil- led a large Sum of Money ofter'd by a Spanifii Lord for a Difpenfation, which that Pope granted, becaufe he jude'a it juft. The Prelates, whom Paul III. confuted for the Reformation of the Court of Rome, recommended thefame Thing j Except for Difpenfations of Marriages contracted nialgre fome known Impediment.

Dispensation, in Pliarmacy, the Difpofition, and Ar- rangement of fereral Medicines, either fimple or compound R * all