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DISALLOW.—1Pe_2:4, ‘a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God’; 2:7, ‘the stone which the builders disallowed.’ The Eng. word means emphatically disowned, as in the AV [Note: Authorized Version.] heading to 1Sa_29:1-11, ‘David, marching with the Philistines, is disallowed by their princes.’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] gives ‘rejected,’ as the same Gr. verb is rendered in Mat_21:42, Mar_8:31, Luk_17:25. But in Num_30:5; Num_30:8; Num_30:11 ‘disallow’ means no more than disapprove, as in Barlowe’s Dialogue, p. 83, ‘ye can not fynde that they be dysalowed of God, but rather approved.’