Word Meanings - DISPURPOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.

Related words: (words related to DISPURPOSE)

• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• DISSUADER
  One who dissuades; a dehorter.
• FRUSTRATELY
  In vain. Vicars.
• DISSUADE
  1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton. 2. To divert
• BREWERY
  A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,