DISAPPOINT, dis and appoint properly, to unfix or unsettle.
1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire or intention to frustrate to balk to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped or expected. We say, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions or expectations are disappointed. A bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil The man promised me a visit, by he disappointed me.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed. Proverbs 15 .
2. To frustrate to prevent an effect intended.
The retiring foe shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.