Word Meanings - DISWITTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton.

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• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• DISTRACTFUL
  Distracting. Heywood.
• DISTRACTIOUS
  Distractive.
• DISTRACTEDNESS
  A state of being distracted; distraction. Bp. Hall.
• UNDERSTANDING
  Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• UNDERSTAND
  understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge
• DISTRACTEDLY
  Disjointedly; madly. Shak.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• UNDERSTANDER
  One who understands, or knows by experience. Dryden.
• DISTRACTILE
  Tending or serving to draw apart.
• DISTRACTER
  One who, or that which, distracts away.
• UNDERSTANDABLE
  Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.
• DISTRACT
  1. Separated; drawn asunder. 2. Insane; mad. Drayton.
• DEPRIVABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne.
• DISTRACTING
  Tending or serving to distract.
• 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.
• INUNDERSTANDING
  Void of understanding. Bp. Pearson.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• INDEPRIVABLE
  Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.