Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, same as disturber.
  • Causing disturbance; agitating; turbulent.

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  • We have to distinguish -- (_a_) the effects of the introduction of machinery as a disturbant of regularity of labour;

    The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

  • Error messages are now passive, less disturbant to workflow

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Rabidi subcanes candidati, pretendant “no orator as Brutis is,” ut “stir men’s blood” et disturbant mentes populi ad “a sudden flood of mutiny,” ut Wilhelmus Shakespearus scripsit.

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  • Rabidi subcanes candidati, pretendant “no orator as Brutis is,” ut “stir men’s blood” et disturbant mentes populi ad “a sudden flood of mutiny,” ut Wilhelmus Shakespearus scripsit.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

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