Word Meanings - DISALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To part, as an alliance; to sunder. "Disallied their nuptials." Milton.

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• SUNDER
  To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by
• ALLIANCE
  1. The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances;
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• DISALLIEGE
  To alienate from allegiance. Milton.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• DISSUNDER
  To separate; to sunder; to destroy. Chapman.
• ASUNDER
  Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SALLIANCE
  Salience.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• MISALLIANCE
  A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it. Mrs. Browning.
• RALLIANCE
  The act of rallying.
• MESALLIANCE
  A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.