Disease,

meaning discomfort, want of ease, mal aise, as

“In the world ye shall have disease.”—Wyclif: John xvi. 33.

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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.

Dis
Disaster
Disastrous Peace (La Paix Malheureuse)
Disbar (To)
Discard
Discharge Bible (The)
Discipline (A)
Discord
Discount
Discuss
Disease
Dished
Dish-washer (A)
Dismal
Dismas (St.)
Disney Professor
Disorder
Dispensation
Dispute
Dissolute
Distaff