McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book

Lesson 158

Dis is a Latin particle, and has the force of a negative or privative; as, disagree, not to agree, disarm, to deprive of arms.

dis	please’	dis	ap pear’	dis	con tin’ue
dis	joint’	dis	be lieve’	dis	in her’it
dis	lodge’	dis	o blige’	dis	or’gan ize
dis	charge’	dis	cour’age	dis	sim’i lar
dis	grace’	dis	cov’er	dis	crim’i nate

The prefix after conveys its own meaning.

aft’er piece aft’er noon aft’er most aft’er guard aft’er math aft’er-thought