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▪ I. disengage, v.|dɪsɪnˈgeɪdʒ|
Also 7–8 disingage.
[f. dis- 6 + engage v.; prob. after F. désengager (1462 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
†1. trans. To free from engagement, pledge, contract, or obligation. Obs. exc. as pa. pple.
1611Cotgr., Desengager, to disingage, vngage, redeeme. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. * * ij a, Moneys wherewithall to pay my debts, & to disingage my word. 1648Milton Tenure Kings (1650) 10 If the king prov'd unfaithful the people would be disingag'd. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) II. xxix. 278 To be a single woman all my life, if he would not disengage me of my rash, my foolish promise. 1837[see disengaged].
2. To loosen from that which holds fast, adheres, or entangles; to detach, liberate, free.
1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 34 Two great Ships..between which we were so intangled, that we could not in three hours disengage our selves. 1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1317/4 Sieur Ollier was mortally wounded, and taken, but afterwards disengaged again. 1771Olivier Fencing Familiarized (1780) 60, I make an appel and disengage the point of my sword as if my design were to thrust carte over the arm. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 74, I had..previously wound the rope..round my arm: the consequence was, that I could not disengage my wrist. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 109 It slowly decomposes the water, combining with its hydrogen and disengaging its oxygen.
b. fig.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. ii. (1632) 456 It is a pleasure unto mee, to bee..disingaged from their contentions. a1618Sylvester Job Triumphant i. 390 Hee will..from the sword of war thee dis-ingage. 1634Habington Castara (Arb.) 64 My sacke will disingage All humane thoughts. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 39 Henry the fourth endeavoured to disingage him from the service of the Arch-Duke. 1711Addison Spect. No. 63 ⁋1 It is very hard for the Mind to disengage it self from a Subject in which it has been long employed. a1871Grote Eth. Fragm. iv. (1876) 77 To disengage great principles from capricious adjuncts.
c. To loosen a bond or that which binds.
1780Cowper Doves 10 Our mutual bond of faith and truth No time shall disengage. 1856Bryant Old Man's Funeral vii, Softly to disengage the vital cord.
3. intr. (for refl.) To free oneself, get loose.
1646J. Hall Poems i. 38 Wee'l disingage, our bloodlesse form shall fly Beyond the reach of Earth. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 98 In conversing with Books we may chuse our Company, and disengage without Ceremony or Exception. 1832Regul. Instr. Cavalry iii. 80 The left Troop..must disengage..before it can move.
4. intr. Fencing. To reverse the relative position of the blades by smartly passing the point to the opposite side of the opponent's sword.
1684R. H. School Recreat. 71 When you are on your Guard, and within your Adversary's Sword, disengage and make your Feint without. 1771Olivier Fencing Famil. (1780) 38 If you perceive your adversary force your blade, I would always have you disengage, keeping the point strait to his body. 1809Roland Fencing 83 To disengage is simply to pass your blade on the other side of your adversary's (it is no matter whether within or over the arm) and to thrust.
Hence disenˈgaging vbl. n. and ppl. a. disengaging gear, disengaging machinery: see engaging ppl. a. 3.
1684R. H. School Recreat. 59 Caveating or Disengaging. Here you must..slip your Adversaries Sword, when you perceive him about to bind or secure yours. 1831Boy's Own Bk. 77 Disengaging is performed by dexterously shifting the point of your foil from one side of your adversary's blade to the other; that is, from carte to tierce, or vice versa. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Disengaging-gear, contrivances by which machines are thrown out of connection with their motor, by disconnecting the wheels, chains or bands which drive them.
▪ II. disenˈgage, n. Fencing.
[f. prec. vb.]
The act of disengaging or reversing the relative position of the blades, so as to free one's own for a thrust. So counter-disengage.
1771Olivier Fencing Famil. (1780) 132 Begin trying your adversary with appels, beatings, disengages, and extensions, in order to embarrass him. Ibid. 87 The counter-disengage of carte over the arm. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 71 (Fencing) Cut and disengage, if made inside of the arm, is parried by quarte, or the counter of tierce; if outside, by tierce or counter in quarte. 1889[see counter-disengage, n.]. |