† disrestn.
Obsolete.
The opposite of rest; disquiet, unrest.
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society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun]
unfritheOE
unpeacea1325
unresta1382
hurling1387
tumult1412
hurlc1440
hurly-burlyc1440
unquietness?c1450
unpeaceableness?c1475
estoure1481
broilery1521
broiling1523
turmoil1526
brulyie1531
unquiet1551
troublesomeness1561
disrest1567
turbulence1598
hurly1600
turbulency1607
inquieta1684
brulyiement1718
agitation1769
dispeace1825
fudder1871
push and shove1895
1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 19v The sorer is the cruell gashe, and breedes the more disrest.
1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 103 Free from any molestation from without, or principle of disrest within.
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xxxiii. 177 Violence, disrest, and an ill name, will be the rewards of your folly and obstinacy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
† disrestv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive.
a. To remove or dislodge from a place of rest.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)]
stira1000
unsheathec1374
removea1398
shifta1400
disroom1489
supplant1534
unplacec1550
displace1552
unperch1578
dislodge1579
unsiege1594
disnest1596
unroost1598
unset1602
unseat1611
dis-element1612
dishabita1616
dislocate1623
disroota1625
disseata1625
rede1638
discardinate1648
disturb1664
disblock1665
start1676
uproot1695
disrest1696
disconcert1744
disannul1794
deplace1839
delocalize1855
disembed1885
disniche1889
1696 W. Stoughton Let. 9 Sept. in B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War (1716) ii. 97 An Expedition to attack that Fort, and to disrest and remove the Enemy from that Post.
b. To deprive of rest; to disturb.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > throw into commotion or disorder [verb (transitive)]
stirc950
disturbc1290
troublec1330
turmoil1530
to set cock on the hoopa1549
garboil1572
blend1594
irrequiate1598
storm1609
uproara1616
embroil1619
dissettle1631
unsettle1651
hurly-burly1678
unhinge1679
disrest1726
commote1852
1726 S. Penhallow Hist. Wars New-Eng. (1859) 52 Our frontiers at home were as much disrested as ever.
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