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DISAPPOINTED, ill-equipped (of a DIVIDE INVENTORIALLY, classify in
person), unprepared (cf. ap- detail; 5. 2. 118
pointment. Theobald quotes DIVULGING, becoming publicly
Meas. 3. 1. 56-60, where known; 4. 1. 22
'appointment' = preparation for DIZZY (vb.), bewilder, make giddy;
a journey); 1. 5. 77 5.2. 119
DISASTER. An astrological term DOCUMENT, lesson. A legal term,
«•» an unfavourable aspect of a lit. a detailed proof set out in
star or planet. Prob. here writing (cf. N.E.D. 3 quoting
= partial eclipse (v. note)} Raleigh, Hist. World 'This may
r. 1. 123 serue as a document of Fortunes
DISCLOSE (vb. and sb.), hatch out instabilitie'); 4. 5. 177
(of young birds). N.E.D. quotes DOUBLE VOUCHER, V. voucher^ 5.
Book of St Albans (i486), A. 1. 102
ij a, 'First thay been Egges, and DOUBT (vb.), suspect; 1. 2. 2565
afterwarde they bene disclosed 2. 2. 1185 3. 1. 169
hawkys's 3. 1. 169; 5. 1. 281 DOUBT (IN), ambiguous; 4. 5. 6
DISCOURSE, the reasoning faculty; DOUT (vb.), extinguish (v. note
'discourse of reason' also = the i-4- 37)5 4-7- 19°
reasoning faculty (cf. Troil. DOWN-GYVED, fallen down to the
2. 2. 116 'So madly hot that ankle, like gyves or fetters;
no discourse of reason...Can 2. 1. 77
qualify the same'); 1. 2. 150; DRAW ON MORE, bring others with
4. 4. 36 it; 5. 2. 390
DISCOVERY, disclosure; 2. 2. 298 DRIFT (sb.), (i) purpose, plot (cf.
DISMAL, calamitous; 5. 2. 365 T-wo Gent. 2. 6. 43 'Wit to plot
DISMANTLE, divest, deprive one of this drift'); 2. I. 37; 4. 7. 150;
the protection of; 3. 2. 282 (ii) leading one on in conversa-
DISPATCH (vb.), (i) deprive (cf. tion; 2. 1. 10 ('drift of ques-
N.E.D. 7 b) ; 1. 5. 7S5 (ii) exe- tion'); 3. 1. 1 ('drift of
cute swiftly; 3. 3. 3 conference')
DISPRIZED, disparaged, held in DROSSY, worthless, frivolous; J. 2.
contempt; 3. 1. 72 190
DISTEMPER (sb.), 'deranged or dis- DRUNK ASLEEP, dead drunk; 3.3.89
ordered condition of the body DUMB-SHOW. A device frequent in
or mind (formerly regarded as Eliz. drama for (i) foreshadowing
due to disordered state of the the contents of a play or an act
humours)' N.E.D.; 2. 2. 55; by means of a historical or
3.2. 339; 3. 4. 123 symbolical tableau, or (ii) sum-
DISTEMPERED, (a) disturbed in marising a part of the action,
'humour,' ill in body or mind, not otherwise represented, in a
(b) intoxicated (cf. Hen. V, living picture, which was then
2. 2. 54); 3. 2. 301 explained by a Presenter or
DISTRACTED, confused, agitated, Chorus. The Dumb-show in
unstable; 1. 5. 97; 4. 3. 4 Hamlet belongs to neither type;
DISTRUST (vb.), fear for; 3. 2. 163 3. 2. 12, 133 S.D. (v. note)