Diapason :: Diapason (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason..

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like..

Dipaschal :: Dipaschal (a.) Including two passovers.

Disdiapason :: Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason..

Disimpassioned :: Disimpassioned (a.) Free from warmth of passion or feeling.

Dispassion :: Dispassion (n.) Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

Dispassionate :: Dispassionate (a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed..

Dispassionate :: Dispassionate (a.) Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view..

Dispassioned :: Dispassioned (a.) Free from passion; dispassionate.

Empasm :: Empasm (n.) A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

Empassion :: Empassion (v. t.) To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion.

Empassionate :: Empassionate (a.) Strongly affected.

Encompass :: Encompass (v. t.) To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world..

Encompassed :: Encompassed (imp. & p. p.) of Encompas.

Encompassing :: Encompassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Encompas.

Encompassment :: Encompassment (n.) The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention..

Epispastic :: Epispastic (a.) Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.

Epispastic :: Epispastic (n.) An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory..

Faux Pas :: faux pas () A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.

Forepast :: Forepast (a.) Bygone.

Forpass :: Forpass (v. t. & i.) To pass by or along; to pass over.

Hautpas :: Hautpas (n.) A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.

Hyopastron :: Hyopastron (n.) The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyosternum.

Hypaspist :: Hypaspist (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer.

Impassable :: Impassable (a.) Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf..

Impassibility :: Impassibility (a.) The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Impassible :: Impassible (a.) Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation..

Impassibleness :: Impassibleness (n.) Impassibility.

Impassion :: Impassion (v.) To move or affect strongly with passion.

Impassionable :: Impassionable (a.) Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

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