DISTAIN.

TO DISTAIN. To stain; to impair; to lessen.
You having lands, and bless'd with beauteous wives,
They would distrain the one, distain the other.

Richard 3, v. 3.
The worthiness of praise distains his worth,
If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth.
Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.

TO DISTASTE. To taint; to be distasteful; to dislike; to embitter; to disrelish.

Her brain-sick raptures

Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel
Which hath our several honours all engag'd
To make it gracious. Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2.
Dangerous conceits are, in their nature, poisons,
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste.
Othello, iii. 3.

If he distaste it, let him to my sister,
Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one.
King Lear, i. 3.
And scants us with a single famish'd kiss
Distasted with the salt of broken tears.

Troilus and Cressida, iv. 4.

DISTEMPER. Intemperance; disorder; disquiet; perturbation of mind.

If little faults, proceeding on distemper,

Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and di-
gested,
Appear before us?

Henry 5, ii. 2. Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper ? Hamlet, iii. 2. TO DISTEMPER. To disturb; to excite; to disorder.

Once more to-day well met, distemper'd lords!
King John, iv. 3.
Young son, it argues a distemper'd head
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed.
Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3.
He cannot buckle his distemper'd course
Within the belt of rule.

Never till this

Macbeth, v. 2.

Tempest, iv. 1.

Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.

DISTEMPERATURE. Disorder; perturbation of mind; discord; strife.

And at her heels a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures and foes to life.

Comedy of Errors, v. 1.

All's well that ends well, v. 3. Most worthy sir, you therein throw away The absolute soldiership you have by land; Distract your army, which doth most consist Of war-mark'd footmen.

Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 7.

Thy tongue

Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.

Henry 4, P. 1, iii. 1. Some say the lark makes sweet division.

Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5.

DIVORCEMENT. Divorce; separation.
Or that I do not yet, and ever did,

And ever will, though he do shake me off
To beggarly divorcement,-love him dearly,
Comfort forswear me !

Othello, iv. 2.

TO DIVULGE. To publish; to proclaim; to report.

A strumpet's boldness, a divulgèd shame.

All's well that ends well, ii. 1.

I will divulge Page himself for a secure and
wilful Actæon. Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 2.
Ay, Greek; and that shall be divulged well
In characters as red as Mars his heart
Inflam'd with Venus. Troilus and Cressida, v. 2.
In voices well divulg'd, free, learn'd, and valiant.
Twelfth Night, i. 5.