To prove the power of the mind over the body, Mr Godwin observes, "How often do we find a piece of good news dissipating a distemper?
The world abounded in spills and mess and yet it was miraculous that, at least for many, it came together so well before finally going awry, dissipating as dew, life, the decent and debauched of it.
He vented a sigh of relief for having managed to stay quiet and thought how close the words were to his lips before dissipating like everything else, and in this case leaving him defenseless against his good looks.
Various lower clouds which seemed to have the outline of vultures within them were eager to move ahead of the dissipating mass.
He mentioned to me now, for the first time, that he had been distrest by melancholy, and for that reason had been obliged to fly from study and meditation, to the dissipating variety of life.
He for a considerable time used to frequent the Green Room, and seemed to take delight in dissipating his gloom, by mixing in the sprightly chit-chat of the motley circle then to be found there[596].
If intercourse have not this wholesome effect, it is dissipating and best shunned.
He could only have been a Bohemian at the price of dissipating all his capital, and that he could more easily do among the viveurs upon the boulevard.
In fine, by this dispensation of amusements, one after another, diverting their fury and dissipating it in frivolous consultations, he laid it at last asleep till the day appeared, which was his principal end.
A flash of joy came into Yankele's own face, dissipating his glooms.
If such be the dissipatingeffect of writing for newspapers and the lighter periodicals, it is surely natural to infer that the exclusive reading of such works must have a dissipating effect also.
Mr. Vincent replied, he must be on his guard against dissipating his mind with such reading, at a time when his University duties had a definite claim upon him.
The most efficacious means for dissipating all these vain fancies would be never to speak of them, and to bury them in silence and oblivion.
Sidenote: Dissipating Mental Specters] But the mask has been torn from the specter of distraction, and hereafter when irrelevant sights, sounds and other sensations threaten to interrupt your work, just stop a moment and consider.
It seemed to him that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered it more funereal and more black.
If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir.
One was improving his fortune by well regulated oeconomy; the other dissipating his among gamesters and pick-pockets.
He spoke very severely of him as a forward, impertinent, silly fellow, who was dissipating his fortune.
The brigand ship and all its vicinity were enveloped in dark mist now--a turgid sable curtain, made more dense by the dissipating heavy fumes of our exploding bombs which settled low over the ship and the rocks nearby.
And I saw that the darkness down on the rocks was almost gone now, dissipating in the airless night.
The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
The one kind means dissipating your fortune and your health; the other merely means dissipating melancholy, getting rid of care now and then, and of everything that bores one.
At the head of this body of some three hundred men he was entrusted with the difficult task of ‘dissipating and interrupting’ the conventicles in the western and south-western districts of Scotland.
Far removed from the dissipatinginfluences of European and American opulence, they dwell in their secluded island in a state of almost patriarchal simplicity.
Napoleon never manifested any taste for those dissipating pleasures which attract and ruin so many young men.
The question of Luke's possible guilt had suddenly loomed up before him, dissipating the former blind impulse of partisanship and loyalty.
She amused him; she had quaint sayings which were sometimes witty, always daring, but which succeeded in dissipating momentarily that mortal ennui of which he suffered.
If I have been the means of dissipating a happy illusion, you may curse me now, but you will bless me to-morrow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissipating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
