DISBORD.

DISBURDEN.

DISBORD: dis, and board, q. v. Opposed toto board or to go on board; as debark is to embark.

And in the arm'd ship, with a wel-wreath'd cord
They streightly bound me, and did all disbord
To shore to supper, in contentious rout.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, book xiv. fol. 220. DISBOWEL: dis, and bowel; perhaps, as Junius suggests, from bow, to bend, to wind, to twist. See BOWEL. Surrey writes Debowel.

To deprive of, to empty out the bowels; the en trails; the interior contents; to eviscerate.

Faire Dido held in her right hand a cup,
Which twixt the hornes of a white cow she shed
In presence of the Gods, passing before
The aulters fatte, which she renewed oft
With giftes that day, and beasts debowled:
Gazing for counsell on the entrales warme.

Surrey. Virgil. Eneid, book iv.

He that hath seene a great oake dry and dead,
Yet clad with reliques of some trophies old,
Lifting to heauen her aged hoarie head,
Whose foote on ground hath left but feeble hold;
But halfe disbowl'd lies aboue the ground.

Spenser. The Ruines of Rome, st. 28. Others say the poyson was giuen him in a dish of pears. But the physician that disbowelled his body found no sign of poyson in it, and therefore not likely to be true.

Baker. King John, Anno 1216.
Riches the hardy soldiers shall despise,
Nor the disbowel'd earth explore,
In search of the forbidden ore.

Addison. Horace. Ode 3. book iii.

Otherwise the physicians of princes and great men, after having considered all the inward parts of their disbowelled patients could not so often doubt and dispute, as they do, whether or no poison were accessary to their death.

Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 184. The Usefulness of Natural Philosophy.

DISBRANCH: dis, and branch, (q. v.) perhaps berancke, brancke, branch; from Ger. ranken, rek-en, to reach, to extend.

To lop off, to strip, deprive or divest of the branches; i. e. that which reaches, extends, sc. from the trunk ; from the main stem, met.

Also, where the nature of the ground will bear it, the husbandman shall not doe amisse to disbraunch and lop his tree-groves, to prune his vineyards.

Holland. Plinie, vol. i. fol. 589.

So as eft soones all that dukedome, one of the goodiest gemmes in the English diademe, and disbranched from France since the yeare eight hundred eighty-fiue, was againe rent away.

Speed. King John, Anno 1205. book ix. ch. viii. sec. 28.

That nature, which contemns its origin

Cannot be bordered certain in itself;

She, that herself will sliver and disbranch

From her material sap, perforce must wither,
And come to deadly use.

Shakspeare. Lear, act iv. sc. 2.

DISBU'RDEN, or Dis, and burden or burthen, DISBURTHEN. S(q. v.) from A. S. byrd-en or burth-en, from A. S. byr-an, to bear.

To free from a burthen, that is, a weight or load, borne; to unload, to exonerate, to discharge.

After this, the kynge hauyng peace as well with foreyne princes, for the terme of iii. yeres, as disburdened and purified of all domesticall sedition, beganne to be diseased with a certayne infirmitis and wekenes of body.

Hall. Henry VII. The twenty-first Yere.

As it is, I am at an end of my designed method, and am glad that it hath been contrived into so small a compass, being now at leisure to retire to my meditations, which will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburthened.

Hammond. Works, vol. i. fol. 152. Of the Reasonableness of Christian Religion, ch. vi.

No sooner does the foul tongue give us the alarm, but strait all the powers of the mind are awakened, the concerns of reputation begin to rise, thoughts of defiance to take up arms, and the whole soul boils within itself, grows big with the injury, and would fain discharge and disburden itself in a full revenge.

South. Sermons, vol. viii. p. 185.

When this speculatist finds himself prompted to another performance, let him consider whether he is about to disburthen his mind, or employ his fingers; and if I might venture to offer him a subject, I should wish that he would solve this question, Why he that has nothing to write should desire to be a writer? Johnson. Review of a Free Enquiry, &c. DISBURGEON: dis, and burgeon, q. v. Fr. bourgeonner, to bud. See another Example in v. DEFOIL. To strip off, to divest of, the bourgeons, i. e. buds or shoots.

young When the vine beginneth to put out leaves and looke green fall to disburgeoning. Holland. Plinie, vol. i. fol. 534.

DISBURSE, DISBURSING, n. DISBURSEMENT.

Dis, and burse, (q. v.) Lat. bursa ; Gr. Búpoa, a hide or skin; the material of which that now called

purse or burse was made. See also DEBURSE. To take out of the burse or purse; to pay away; to expend, to defray expenses, costs or charges.

Therefore after his long iourney ended and dooen, the master returned home againe, & required an accoumpt of his seruauntes, of that he had deliuered the, and what they had disbursed and layed out of the same. Udall. Matthew, ch. xxv.

Wherefore he demaŭded to haue the disbursing of the mony himselfe, because it wold be very pernitius & hurtful, to put the doing therof into many mens hāds.

Arthur Goldynge. Justine, fol. 35.

The ransom itselfe, which amounted to a good round summe, made them to pause: because they were unwilling both to emptie the publike treasurie; (havinge alreadie disbursed great summes, in buying up bond-slaves and arming them for the warres,) and also that Anniball (who as the voyce went, was at a very great under [hujusce rei egentem] for money) should be inriched thereby. Holland. Livivs, fol. 471.

Hereupon Nicias adviseth to depart towards the Selinuntines, and to force them, or persuade them to an agreement with the Egestans; as likewise to see what disbursements the Egestans could make.

Ralegh. History of the World, book v. ch. i. sec. 1. But if the bargain tie you to pecuniary disbursements, be sure distressed Christians be (at least) sharers in them. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 24. A Dis. against Customary Swearing, direct. 4.

I am at present engaged in examining the finances of the Prusenses, their disbursements and credits, and the farther I proceed in this affair, the more I am convinced of the necessity of my enquiry.

DISCELIU

Melmoth. Pliny, to Trajan, book x. let. xvi. [xxviii.] DISCELIUS, in Zoology, a genus of Hymenopterous insects, established by Latreille, and placed in the family Vespida.

Generic character. Forehead short, mandibles short, strongly grooved above, and not forming a very open

DIS- angle by their union; body narrow and long, the first CELIUS. ring slightly contracted; jaws, terminal lobe short, DISCARD, nearly semicircular; palpi longer than the lobes.

This genus has for its type

D. zonalis, Vespa zonalis, Panzer, Faun. Germ. pl. lxxi. fig. 18.

This insect lives solitary, and forms its nest in the rotten wood in the trunks of trees.

DISCALCEATION, discalceatus, without shoes; from dis, and calceare, to put on shoes, from calx, cis, the heel of the foot.

Cockeram has "Discalceate; to put off one's shoes."

For I suppose there is an allusion in particular to that rite of discalceation used by the Jews and other nations of the Orient at their coming into sacred places; namely, that whereof the Lord spake to Moses, Exod. iii. 5, and again to Joshua, Jos. v. 15. Erue calceamenta tua de pedibus tuis; locus enim in quo stas terra sancta est: put thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Mede. Works, fol. 441. The Reverence of God's House.

The custom of discalceation or putting off their shoes at meals, is conceived to confirm the same.

Sir Thomas Brown, book v. ch. vi.

DISCAMP: dis, and camp. (q. v.) See also to DECAMP.

To deprive of the camps. Cotgrave renders the Fr. descamper; "to discamp, to raise or remove a camp; to depart from the camp.

No enemie put he ever to flight, but he discamped him and drane him out of the field. (quin castris exueret.)

Holland. Suetonius, fol. 242. Caivs Julivs Cæsar.

DISCANDY: dis, and candy, q. v. Discandying, in the first quotation from Shakspeare, is Theobald's reading; adopted by the other Commentators.

To reduce from a candied state; to dissolve.

Till by degrees the memory of my wombe,
Together with my braue Egyptians all,
By the discandering of this pelleted storm,
Lye grauelesse, till the flies and gnats of Nyle'
Haue buried them for prey.

Shakspeare. Antony and Cleopatra, fol. 358.
The hearts

That pannelled me at heeles, to whom I gauc
Their wishes, do dis-candie, melt their sweets
On blossoming Cæsar.
Id. Ib. fol. 361.
DISCARD, Sp. descartar; Fr. escarter; It. scartare.
Chartas abjicere, to throw away cards. Generally
To throw or cast or send away, to dismiss; to
turn away.

The following passage is quoted in a note in the Ancient British Drama, vol. iii. p. 193, from the Nuge Antiquæ, vol. ii. p. 31, to illustrate the expression, "The rests were up.".

"The other tale I wold tel of a willinge and wise loss, I have hearde dyversely tolde, Some tell it of Kyng Phillip and a favoryt of his; some of our worthie Kyng Henry VIII. and Domingo; and I may call it a tale, because perhappes it is but a tale: but thus they tell it: The Kynge, fifty-five eldest hand, sets up all restes, and discarded flush; Domingo or Dundego, call him how you will, held it uppon forty-nine, or som such game; when all restes wear up and they had discarded, the Kynge threw his fifty-five on the boord open, with great lafter, supposing the game (as yt was) in a manner sewer. Domingo was at his last card incownter'd flush, as the standers-by saw,

and tolde the daye after; but seeing the Kinge so DISCARD. mery, would not for a rest at primero put him out of DISCEPthat pleasawnt conceyt, and put up his cardes quietly, TATION. yielding it lost."

But with her shield so well her selfe she warded
From the dread danger of his weapon keene,
That all that while her life she safely guarded:
But he that helpe from her against her will discarded.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, book v. can. 5.
He that was thus rejected, they say he was discarded; for the
basin wherein the little balls were carried, was called Caddos.
Sir Thomas North. Plutarch, fol. 39. Lycurgus.
They, if they could prevail for the discarding of tythes, would
by the same argument (clamour and slander) presently and im-
portunately press for deposition of the ministry.
Spelman. On Tythes, fol. 157.

These will no taxes give, and those no pence;
Critics would starve the poet, whigs the prince.
The critic all our troops of friends discards;
Just as the whig would fain pull down the guards.
Dryden. Prologue 18. To the Loyal Brother.
Yes, welcome to a man in pow'r;
And so I was for half an hour.
But he grew weary of his guest,
And soon discarded me his breast.

Cotton. Content. Vision 4.

DISCARNATE: dis, and carnate; (see CARNALIZE,) from caro, carnis, flesh.

Stripped, deprived or divested of flesh.

"Tis better to own a judgment though with but a curta supellex of coherent notions; then a memory, like a sepulchre, furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones.

Glanville. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. xv.

DISCASE: dis, and case. To case is used by Shakspeare, as dis or un-case. See CASE.

To strip off the case; sc. that which takes, receives, holds or contains; to divest; strip off the clothes.

Ariell

Fetch me the hat, and rapier in my cell, I will discase me, and myselfe present As I was sometime Millaine.

Shakspeare. Tempest, fol. 17.

Therefore dis-case thee instantly (thou must thinke there's a necessitie in't) and change garments with this gentleman. Id. Winter's Tale, fol. 296. DISCEPTATION, Lat. disceptatio, from disceptare; dis, and captare, from capere, to take. Quasi in diversas partes captare. Gesner.

Sp. disceptacion; Fr. disceptation; "disputation, contention, arguing, debating, reasoning about a matter." Cotgrave.

repeted with some of them verye freshe learned men, good part of And vpon occasion rysing in comunicacion, had agayne our former dysceptacion and reasonyng, had betwene vs before his departynge. Sir Thomas More. Workes, fol. 203. 4 Dialogue concerning

Heresies.

For knowledge drawn freshly, and, as it were in our view, out of particulars, knowes the way best to particulars againe; and it hath much greater life for practice, when the discourse or disceptation attends upon the example, then when the example attends upon the disceptation; for here not only order but substance is respected.

Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, book viii. ch. ii.

itself without any proof, 'tis a precarious and groundless assertion: If they say, the proposition is autóriaTos, or evidently credible of such as ought not to be admitted in any science, or any discepta tion. Barrow. Sermon 12. vol. ii.

DISCEPThe good way they took was by Crumwell and Cranmer s TATION. direction; who foresaw that in these conferences between men of such differing judgments there would happen nothing but verDISCERN. bose janglings and endless desceptations, and little would be concluded. Strype. Memorials. Henry VIII. Anno 1540. DISCEPTERED: dis, and sceptre, Lat. sceptrum ; Gг. σKπτроν, properly, says Vossius, a staff, baculus, scipio; or from OKÝTTEσlai, to lean upon.

To strip, to deprive, divest of his sceptre.

A hundred kings, whose temples were impall'd
In golden diadems, set here and there
With diamonds, and gemmed every where,
And of their golden virges none disceptred were.
G. Fletcher

DISCERN,

DISCERNER, DISCE RNIBLE, DISCERNIBLY, DISCERNING, n. DISCERNINGLY, DISCERNMENT.

Christ's Triumph on Earth. Fr. discerner; It. discernere; Sp. discernir; Lat. discernere; (dis, and cernere.) Kuster agrees with Vossius that Lat. cern-ere, Gr. Kpiv-ev, properly signify to separate, to disjoin; he considers it then to have been applied to denote: to see any thing clearly and distinctly; to discern (separate) one thing from another by sight; and then, further, to have been applied to the mind; i. e. to distinguish accurately the perceptions, the conceptions of the mind. Cernere, he observes, plus est quam videre. And see DECern.

To see or perceive clearly and distinctly; to distinguish or make or mark the difference; to distinguish or discriminate accurately; to look or observe keenly, shrewdly; to judge.

In heauen and hell, in earth, and salt see
Is felt thy might, if that I well discerne.

Chaucer. The third Booke of Troilus, fol. 867.
He brake the barres, and through the timber pearst
So large a hole wherby they might discerne,
The house, the court, the secret chambers eke
Of Priamus, and auncient kings of Troy,
And armed foes in thentrie of the gate.

Surrey. Virgil. Eneid, book ii. For though our eyes can nought but colours see, Yet colours give them not their pow'r of sight; So, though these fruits of sense her objects be, Yet she discerns them by her proper light. Davies. The Immortality of the Soul, sec. 1. The firepikes divided halfe to the one, and half to the other company, served no lesse for fright to the enemy than light of our men, who by this meanes might discerne every place very well, as if it were neare day.

Sir Francis Drake Revived, fol. 11.

And this redressed he with small travaile and little adoe : for that himself deciding quarrels and controversies (especially when the greatnesse either of causes or persons so required) was a constant and irremoveable discerner of right and wrong.

Holland. Ammianus, fol. 104.

Constantius and Julianus.

12. For the word of God is quick and powerfull, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joynts and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Bible. Modern Version. Hebrews, ch. iv.

When able and prudent men come to act their own parts, they are then for the most part not of the clearest sight, and do commonly commit such errors, as are both discernable and avoidable, even by men of mean abilities.

Cabbala, fol. 264. Sir Robert Phillips to the Duke of Buckingham, Anno 1624.

"Tis superfluous to pursue this any further, which so discernably falls under the inconveniencies that have been showed to belong to assurance.

Hammond. Works, vol. i. fol. 482. Of Fundamentals, ch. xiii.

commerces.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 10. part i. sec. 4. Whereas indeed the rarities of nature are in these recesses, and its most excellent operations cryptick to common discernment. Glanville. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. xviii.

When will your towers the height of Carthage know?
Or when your eyes discern such crowds below.

Dryden. Ovid, Epistle 7. Dido to Eneas.

But besides these dangers which are more visible and apparent, there is another which is less discernible, because it hath the face of piety; and that is faction in religion: By which I mean an unpeaceable and uncharitable zeal about things wherein religion either doth not at all, or but very little consist. Tillotson. Sermon 34.

From whence it being clear, that the spirit of God not showing itself to the soul immediately by itself and its own substance, as light doth to the eye, but by the mediation of its operations and effects upon the soul, it follows, that it is not discernable by itself, as light is, but by its operations.

South. Sermons, vol. v. p. 305.

Experience tells us that our unassisted sight though sufficiently acute for the ordinary purposes of life, is not aeute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects.

Beattie. On Truth, part ii. ch. i. sec. 2.

If the ambiguity be discernible, the argument can have no force; if there be no suspicion of ambiguity, the dispute may be continued from generation to generation, without working any change in the sentiments of either party.

Id. Ib. part ii. ch. ii. sec. 3.

Syrena is for ever in extremes,
And with a vengeance she commands or blames.
Conscious of her discernment, which is good,
She strains too much to make it understood.

Young. Love of Fame, Satire 6. DISCE/RP, Lat. discerpere; dis, and carpere, DISCERPTIBLE, to pluck. Of unknown etymoDISCE RPTION. logy.

To pluck asunder; to pull or pluck or tear in pieces; to sever, to dissever.

Isis is a Greek word, which signifies knowledge; and Typhon is the enemy to this Goddess; who being puffed up by ignorance and errour, doth distract and discerp the holy doctrine (of the simple Deity) which Isis collects together again, and makes up into one, and thus delivers it to those, who are initiated into her sacred mysteries, in order to Deification.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, fol. 355. According to what is here presented, what is most dense, and least porous, will be most coherent, and least discerptible. Glanville. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. v

In which words, Plutarch intimates, that the Egyptian fable, of Osiris being mangled and cut in pieces by Typhon, did allegorically signifie the discerption and distraction of the simple Deity,

DISCERN.

DISCERP.

DISCERP. by reason of the weakness and ignorance of vulgar minds (not

able to comprehend it altogether at once) into several names and DIS partial notions, which yet true knowledge and understanding, CHARGE. that is, Isis, makes up whole again and unites into one.

Cudworth, Intellectual System, fol. 355.

Nor can we have any idea of matter, which does not imply a natural discerptibility and susceptivity of various shapes and modifications. Wollaston, Religion of Nature delineated, sec. 5. § xi. Hereupon the author seeks another subterfuge, by departing from the received sense of words; maintaining that space has no parts, because its parts are not separable and cannot be removed from any other by discerption.

Clarke and Leibnitz. Mr. Leibnitz's fifth Paper.

In this consequence of its substantiality that it was part of God, discerped from him, and would be resolved again into him, they all we say, agreed.

Warburton. The Divine Legation, book iii. sec. 4.

But when the ancients are said to hold the pre and post-existence of the soul, and therefore to attribute a proper eternity to it, we must not suppose that they understood it to be eternal in its distinct and peculiar existence; but that it was discerped from the substance of God in time; and would, in time, be rejoined, and resolved into it again. Id. Ib.

DISCESSION, Lat. disced-ere, discessum, to go away from; (dis, and cedere, to go.)

Going away from, departing, retiring.

There might seem to be some kinde of mannerly order in this guilty departure; not all at once; least they should seeme violently chased away by this charge of Christ; now their slinking away (one by one) may seem to carry a shew of deliberate and voluntary discession.

DISCHARGE, v. DISCHARGE, 11. DISCHARGER,

Hale. Contemplations. The Woman taken in Adulterie. Fr.descharger. Dis, and charge, (q. v.) from the Semi-barbarous carciare, (from carrus) pro onerare, ac propriè carrum onerare, to load a car; and discharge, Low Lat. discargare, e carro ponere, to put out, throw out, of a car; carrum eronerare, to unload a car. Vossius, de Vit. Ser. 1. iv. c. 3 and 6. Generally,

DISCHARGING.

Consideringe that deth is the discharger of al griefes and DISmyseries, and to them that dye well, the fyrst entrie in to lyfe CHARGE. euerlastynge.

Sir Thomas Elyot. The Castel of Helth, ch. xii.
And deeming better, if he could discharge,
The day with safety, and some peace conclude.

Daniel. History of Civil Wars, book iv.
Think, that a rustic piece discharg'd is flown
In pieces, and the bullet is his own,
And freely flies; this to thy soul allow,
Think thy shell broke, think thy soul hatch'd but now.
Donne. Funeral Elegies,

Now gan he in his grieued minde deuise
How from the dungeon he might her enlarge;
Some while he thought by faire and humble wise
To Proteus selfe to sue for her discharge.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, book iv. can. 12. My lords, likewise there were other discharges; upon this reason Norwich was discharged from finding of men for manning of ships because the admiral's commission did not warrant it. State Trials. The King against John Hampden, in case of Ship Money.

The council of state taking notice of the tumultuous and barbarous actings at the new exchange in the Strand, in the county of Middlesex, upon the 21 and 22 of November last past, the same time being accompanied with the drawing of swords, discharging of pistols, and such other high misdemeanors, &c.

Id. Case of Don Pantaleon Sa.

Love, as it is the greatest treasure of our soules, so is it the only security stands bound to God for all our debts; all the other faculties of man seeme to be receivers only, and this the discharger of all their accounts.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 4. part i. sec. 2.

To whom Saturnia thus; thy tears are late;
Haste snatch him, if he can be snatch'd from fate:
New tumults kindle, violate the truce;
Who knows what changeful fortune may produce?
"This not a crime t'attempt what I decree,
Or if it were, discharge the erime on me.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneid, book xii.

As there are strange ferments in the blood which in many bodies occasion an extraordinary discharge; so in reason too, there are heterogeneous particles, which must be thrown off by fermentation.

siasm, sec. 2.

But for thei wolde him selfe discharge Of pouertee, and become grate.

Gower. Conf. Am. Prologue, fol. 5.

There might you heare the cannons rore,
Eche pece discharged a louer's loke,
Which had the power to rent, and tore
In any place wheras they toke.

Vncertaine Auctors. Thassault of Cupide, &c.

After the seruaunt aforesaide hath so discharged his cuppes to the fower quarters of the world, he returneth into the house.

Hakluyt. Voyage, &c. The Tartars, vol. i. p. 96.

And that absolucion, was blasen and blowen, preached, and taught, throughout all the world, & all dores and postes must bee decked with papers and bulles for your discharge. Barnes. Workes, fol. 198. A Supplication to King Henry VIII.

a rustling among the bushes, supposes it to be some game, and accordingly discharges his bow.

Fitzosborne. Letter 57. To Clytander.

DISCHIDIA, in Botany, a genus of the class Pentandria, order Monogynia, natural order Asclepedeæ. Generic character: corolla pitcher-shaped, five-cleft; stamineous crown, five-leaved leaflets, subulate, twocleft, the points recurved; masses of pollen erect; stigma obtuse.

Two species, D. nummularia, native of New South Wales; and D. Bengalensis, native of the East Indies. Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 357.

DISCHIURUS, in Zoology, a genus of Coleopterous insects, belonging to the family Carabida, established by Bonelli, and adopted by the modern Naturalists. It is nearly allied to Clivinia.

Generic character. The two first legs ending in two or three long and strong points, the lower of which is articulated at its base, or spine-shaped.

1. D.Thoracicus, Scarites Thoracitus, Fabricius. Panz. Fauna Ins. Germ. pl. lxxxiii. fig. 1. Panz.

2. D. Gibbus, Scarites Gibbus, Fabricius. Fauna Ins. Germ. pl. v. fig. 1.

DISCHIURUS

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DISCHURCH: dis, and church. To free from, CHURCH. divest or deprive of a church.

DISCIPLE. This can be no ground to dischurch that differing company of
Christians, neither are they other from themselves upon this
diversity of opinion.
Bishop Hall. Remains, p. 402.

Avertebrose Animals.

DISCIDE. DISCIPLE.

DISCIPLE, v.

DISCIPLE, n. DISCIPLESS, DISCIPLESHIP, DISCIPLINE, v. DI'SCIPLINE, N. DISCIPLINABle, DI'SCIPLINABLENESS, DISCIPLINANT, DISCIPLINA'RIAN, adj. DISCIPLINA'RIAN, n. DI'SCIPLINARY, DI'SCIPLINER, DI'SCIPLINING.

Fr. disciple; It. discepolo; Sp. discipulo; Fr. discipliner; It. disciplinare; Sp. disciplinar; Lat. discipulus; disciplina, from discere. Vossius thinks from the Gr. διδάσκ-ομαι. Lennep considers the Lat. dic-ere, to be no other than the Gr. dik-e, signifying pellere, vel impellere, expel lere, ejicere, ore verba: to cast out, throw out, sc. words from the mouth. Of similar origin, it may be observed, is the English word, to shout, i. e. shoot, sc. words from the mouth. The Lat. disc-ere, he supposes to have originated from Eko-ev, (by metath. diok-e,) the first future of dik-ew, to cast or throw. Whence also diakos, discus. Upon this Etymology, Schedius interprets disc-ere, literally to mean, expellere sæpius, identidem dicere; to throw out the same thing frequently; i. e. to say the same thing, sc. till it is teached, or taken; and thus to teach, i.e. to take knowledge, to learn. And a

Disciple, one who teaches or learns, one who receives learning or knowledge; and

Discipline, to teach, to treat as a disciple, to train up to learning or knowledge; to train up in the means of learning; in good order, method, regularity, diligence; in good conduct; in all good habits;-to order, to regulate, exercise, direct, correct, chastise.

be deciples, pat he hyder sende Cristendom to brýnge, Byleuede in a wildernesse, after her prechynge, pat me clepup now Glastýnbury, þat desert was þo. R. Gloucester, p. 232. In this thing alle men schulen knowe that ye ben disciplis, if ye han loue togidere.

myn Wiclif. John, ch. xiii.

By this shal al men know that ye are my disciples, yf ye shall haue loue one to another. Id. Bible, Anno 1551.

Joanna ye wife of Chusa, (who was Herode's steward,) of a ladie of y court became a disciplesse vnto Christ.

Udall. Luke, ch. viii. If ony virtu, if ony preisyng of discipline, thenke ghe these thingis. Wiclif. Philipensis, ch. iv. Then shalt thou understonde, that bodily peine stont in discipline, or teching, by word, or by writing, or by ensample. Chaucer, The Persones Tale, v. 2. p. 386.

As it fareth by children in schoole, that for learning arne beaten when their lesson they foryeten, commonly after a good disciplining with a yerde, they kepe right well doctrine of their schole. Id. The Testament of Loue fol. 306. This sterne kyng, this cruell lorde Toke euery daie one of the nyne, And put hym in to the discipline Of Minotaire to be deuoured.

Gower. Conf. Am. book v. fol. 163. Xenophon beinge bothe a philosopher and an excellent capitayne, so inuented and ordered his worke, named Pædia Ciri whiche maye be interpreted the Chyldehode or disciplyne of Cyrus. Sir Thomas Elyot. Governour, book i. ch. xi. By which, fraile youth is oft to folly led, Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, That better were in vertues discipled, Then with vaine poems weeds to haue their fancies fed. Spenser. Faerie Queene, book iv. can. 1.

I have already made it evident that that commission for preaching to, or discipling all nations (as for the baptizing them, and the particularity of the form to be used in baptism, &c.) was not the institution of baptism, nor any intimation on either side, whether infants should be baptized or not.

Hammond. Works, vol. ii. part iv. fol. 112. A Defence of Infant Baptism.

Nor after resurrection shall he stay

Louger on earth then certain times to appear
To his discipies, men who in his life
Still follow'd him; to them shall leave in charge
To teach all nations what of him they learn'd
And his salvation.

Milton, Paradise Lost, book xii. 1. 438.