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Disʹsolute

is one that runs loose, not restrained by laws or any other bonds. (Latin, dissolvo, like horses unharnessed.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Disease
Dished
Dish-washer (A)
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Dismas (St.)
Disney Professor
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Dispensation
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Distaffina
Distemper
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Distraction
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Dittany
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