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By design; purposely; intentionally: op- Fulfilling the desires of the flesh. Eph. ii. 3. Desman (des'man), n. The musk-rat (Galeposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inad- 6.7 Regret for some dear object lost; desid- mys pyrenaica). See MUSK-RAT, 2. vertently.

eration.

Desmid, Desmídian (des'mid, des-mi'di-an), Designedness (de-sin'ed-nes or dē-zin'ed

And warm tears gushing from their eyes, with pas.

n. A plant of the order Desmidiaceae. nes), n. The attribute or quality of being sionate desire

Desmidiaceæ, Desmidieæ (des-mi'di-a". designing; cunning scheming.

of their kind manager.

Chapman. sé-ē, des-mi-di'é-ė), n. pl. (Gr. desmos, a All the portraiture of human nature is drawn over Syn. Wish, craving, inclination, eagerness, chain, and eidos, resemblance.) A nat. order with the dusky shades and irregular features of base aspiration, longing.

of microscopic,fresh-water,confervoid Algæ. designedness and malicious cunning. Barrow.

Desire (de-zir'), v... pret. & pp. desired; ppr. They are green gelatinous plants composed Designer (do-sin'ér or dē-zīn'ér), n. 1. One | desiring. [Fr. désirer, from L. desidero, to of variously formed cells having a bilateral who designs, marks out, or plans; one who desire.] 1 To wish for the possession or symmetry, which are either free, or in frames a scheme or project; a contriver. -- enjoyment of, with a greater or less degree linear series, or collected into bundles or 2. One who plots; one who lays a scheme: of earnestness; to covet. It expresses less into starlike groups, and imbedded in a in a bad sense. *Ambitious designers.' strength of affection than longing.

common gelatinous coat. The reproduction Hammond.--3. In manuf. and the fine arts, Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv, 24.

is by cell division, by germinating spores one who conceives or forms a design to

When one is contented, there is no more to be de.

after conjugation, or by zoospores. Desbe afterwards more elaborately executed; sired; and where there is no more to be desired, there

midiaceae differ from Diatomaceæ in their one who designs figures and patterns for is an end of it.

Trans of Don Quixote,

green colour and absence of silex ornamental or artistic purposes. Designful (dé-sin'fyl or dē-zin'ful), a. Full

2. To express a wish to obtain; to ask; to

Desmine (des’min), n. [Gr. desmos, a ligaof design; designing. request; to petition.

ment.) A zeolitic mineral that crystallizes in

little silken tufts, accompanying spinellane Designfulness (de-sin'fyl-nes or dé-zin'iyl.

Then she said, Did I desire a son of my Lord! in the lava of extinct volcanoes on the banks

2 ki. iv. 28. nes), n. The state or quality of being de3. To require; to claim.

of the Rhine. It is a silicate of alumina signful or given to artífice. * Base design

and lime. Called also Stilbite. fulness and malicious cunning.' Barrow.

A doleful case desires a doleful song. Spenser.

Desmiospermeæ (des’mi-o-spér"mē-ē), n. pl. Designing (de-sin'ing or dē-zin'ing), pp. and 4. To long for, as some lost object; to de- [Gr. desmios, binding, from desmos, a chain, a. Artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving siderate; to regret.

and sperma, seed.) One of the divisions of schemes of mischief; as, designing men are His chair desires him here in vain. Tennyson. rose-spored Algæ, in which the spores are always liable to suspicion.

He (Jehoram) reigned in Jerusalem eight years,

not scattered, but form distinct chains like Designment (de-sin'ment or dē-zin'ment), and departed without being desired.

little necklaces. n. 1. Design; sketch; delineation.

2 Chron. xxi. 20. Desmobrya (des-mo'bri-a), 11. pl. (Gr. desFor though that some mean artist's skill were shown

Syn. To long for, hanker after, covet, wish, mos, a chain, and bryon, a kind of mossy In mingling colours, or in placing light, beg, ask, request, solicit, entreat.

sea-weed.) A term given to the ferns in Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.

Desire (dē-zir), v.i. To be in a state of desire which the fronds are produced terminally, 2. Design; purpose; aim; intent; scheme. or anxiety.

that is, from the apex of the caudex, and She received advice both of the king's desperate For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, are adherent to it estate and of the duke's designments against her.

were more

Desmodium (des-mo'di-um), n. (Gr. desinos, Sir 7. Hayward

Than to walk

all day like the sultan of old in a gar3.+ Enterprise.

den of spice.

a band, in allusion to its stamens being Tennyson.

joined.) A genus of plants, nat. order LeThe desperate tempest hath so bang‘d the Turks, Desired (dė-zird), p. and a. Wished for; guminosa, consisting of herbs, shrubs, or That their designment halts.

Shak,
coveted; requested; entreated.

trees, with leaves of three or five leaflets, or Desilver (de-silver), v.t. To deprive of He bringeth them unto their desired haven. sometimes reduced to a single leaflet. The silver; as, to desilver lead.

Ps. cvii. 30.

smallish flowers are in terminal or lateral Desilverisation, Desilverization (de-sil's Desirer (dé-zir ėr), n. One who desires or racemes, and the pods are flat and jointed, vér-iz-a"shon), n. The act or process of de- asks; one who wishes.

each joint with one seed. The best known priving lead of the silver present in its ore. Desirous (de-zir’us), a. 1. Wishing for; wishDesilverise, Desilverize (de-sil'vėr-iz), v.t. ing to obtain; wishful; covetous; solicitous; To deprive of silver, as lead.

anxious; eager. Desinencet (de'sin-ens), n. [L. desino, to

Be not desirous of his dainties, Prov. xxiii. 3. give over, to cease, to end-de, down, and

Jesus knew they were desirous to ask him. sino, to leave.) End; close. Bp. Hall.

John xvi. 19. Desinentt(de'sin-ent), a. Ending; extreme; 2. + Desirable. lowermost. In front of this sea were placed Desirously (dē-zīr'us-li), adv. With desire; six Tritons their desinent parts fish.' with earnest wishes. B. Jonson.

Desirousness (dē-zir'

us-nes), n. The state Desipientt (dē-si'pi-ent), a. (L. desipiens, or affection of being desirous.

desipio, to dote-de, priv., and sapio, to be Desist (de-sist'), v.i. [L. desisto, to stand off wise.) Trifling; foolish; playful. Smart. or aloof, to desist-de, away from, and sisto, Desirability (de-zir'a-bil'i-ti), n. The state to stand.) To stop; to cease to act or proor quality of being desirable; desirableness. ceed; to forbear: often with from; as, he Desirable (de-zir'a-bl), a. [See DESIRE.) desisted from his purpose; sometimes with Worthy of desire; that is to be wished for the infinitive. "To desist from his bad with sincerity or earnestness; calculated or practice.' Massinger. Desist to build at fitted to excite a wish to possess. Desirable all.' Shak.-SYN. To stop, forbear, leave amplitude and extent of thought.' Watts. off, cease, discontinue.

Semaphore Plant (Desmodium gyrans). It is a thing the most desirable to man, and most Desistance, Desistence (dē - sist'ans, dēagreeable to the goodness of God, that he should sist'ens), n. A ceasing to act or proceed; a species is D. gyrans, the semaphore plant, send forth his light and his truth by a special reve- stopping. Desistance from giving.' Boyle.

remarkable for the peculiar rotatory movelation.

Rogers.

Desistive (de-sist'iv), a. Ending; conclud- ments of its leaflets. This motion goes on Desirable (dē-zir'a-bl), n. Anything desired ing. (Rare.)

though the air be quite still, and is scarcely or worthy of being desired.

Desitiont (de-si'shon), n. [L. desitus, from at all influenced by mechanical irritation. The unseen desirables of the spiritual world. desino, desitum-de,down, and sino, to leave.) The leaflets move in nearly all conceivable

Watts
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ways; two of them may be at rest and Desirableness (de-zir'a-bl-nes), n. The

Desitivet (de'sit-iv), a. [See DESITION.) the other revolving, or all three may be quality of being desirable.

Final; conclusive. Desitive propositions.' moving together. The movements are most Desirably (dē-zir'a-bli), adv. In a desirable

Watts.

obvious when the plant is in a hot-house, manner.

Desitivet (de'sit-iv), n. In logic, a proposi- with a strong sun shining. Upwards of 130 Desire (de-zir), n. [Fr. désir, from the

tion which relates to an end or termina- species are known, natives of the warmer verb (which see)] 1. An emotion or excitetion.

regions of the earth. ment of the mind, directed to the attain. Desk (desk), n. [A. Sax. disc, a table, a dish; Desmodus (des’mo-dus), n. A genus of bats, ment or possession of an object from which

L.L. discus, a desk, L. discus, Gr. diskos, a including the true vampires. Šee VAMPIRE. pleasure, sensual, intellectual, or spiritual,

disk, a quoit. See DAIS, DISH, DISK.) An Desmography (des-mogʻra-fi), n. [Gr. desis expected; a passion excited by the love of

inclining table for the use of writers and mos, a ligament, and graphó, to describe. ) an object, or uneasiness at the want of it, and directed to its attainment or possession.

readers, often made with a box or drawer A description of the ligaments of the body.

underneath, and sometimes with a book- | Desmoid (des’moid), a. (Gr. desmos, a band, The desire of the moth for the star,

case above; a frame or case to be placed on of the night for the morrow,

a bundle, and eidos, resemblance.) Resembl. The devotion to something afar

a table for the same purpose. The name is ing a bundle; specifically, in surg, applied to From the sphere of our sorrow, Shelley,

sometimes extended to the whole structure certain fibrous tumours, which, on section, We endeavoured ... to see your face with great

or erection to which such a sloping table is present numerous white, glistening fibres, desire.

i Thes. ii. 17.

attached, as, in the Church of England, to intimately interwoven or arranged in bunDesire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself

the raised seat from which the morning and dles, constituting circles or loops intercrossupon the absence of anything, whose present enjoy. evening service is read, in Scotch churches

ing each other. ment carries the idea of delight with it. Locke. to the seat of the precentor, and in the Desmology (des-mol'o-ji), n. (Gr. desmos, 2. A prayer or request to obtain.

United States to the pulpit in a church. a ligament, and logos, a discourse.) The He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him.

He is drawn leaning on a desk, with his bible be. name given to that branch of anatomy which fore him.

1:. Walton. Ps. cxlv, 19.

treats of the ligaments and sinews. 3. The object of desire; that which is de- Desk (desk), v.t. To shut up in, or as in, a Desmotomy (des-moto-mi), n. (Gr. desmos, sired.

desk; to treasure. In a walnut shell was and tomē, a cutting.) The act or art of disThe desire of all nations shall come. Hag. ii. 7. desked.' Tomkins. (Rare.)

secting the ligaments. 4. Love; affection.

Deskwork (desk'werk), n. Work at the Desolate (de'sô-lăt), a. (L. desolatus, pp. of O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom move

desk; work at writing, as the work of a desolo, desolatum, to leave alone, to forsake. The bloon of young desire, and purple light of love. clerk, a literary man, &c.

See the verb.) 1. Destitute or deprived of
Gray.
All my poor scrapings from a dozen years

inhabitants; desert; uninhabited; denoting 5. Appetite; lust.

Of dust and deskwork.

Tennyson. either stripped of inhabitants, or never DESOLATE

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having been inhabited; as, a desolate wilder- Despairing (de-spār'ing), a. Indulging in A looking down; a despising; contempt. ness. 'A desolate island.' Broome.

despair; prone to despair; indicating despair; Mountague. (Rare. ) I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an as, a despairing disposition; a despairing Despend t (dé-spend), v.t. To expend; to inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. cry.

dispend; to spend; to squander. 2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; ne- Despairingly (dē-spār'ing-li), adv. In a de

Some noble men in Spain can despend £ 50,000

Howell. glected; destroyed; as, desolate altars; deso- spairing manner; in a manner indicating late towers.-3. Solitary; without a comhopelessness.

Desperado (des-pé-rā'do), n. [Old Sp.) A panio forsaken He speaks despairingly and severely of our society,

desperate fellow; a furious man; a mad

Boyle, man; a person urged by furious passions;
No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,

Despairingness (de-spār'ing-nes), n. State one fearless or regardless of safety.
But some heart though unknown,

of being despairing; hopelessness. Clarke. Desperate (des'pe-rāt), a. (L. desperatus, Responds unto his own. Longfellow. Despatch (des-pach'), v. t. [Fr. dépêcher, pp. of despero, to despair.] 1. Having no 4. Deprived of comfort; afflicted.

0. Fr. depeecher, despeecher, to despatch, to hope; without hope. My heart within me is desolate. Ps. cxliii. 4. expedite, 'from,' says Littré, 'a L.L. verb

Shak.

I am desperate of obtaining her. dispedico-dis, neg., and pedica, a snare.' Sen. Desert, uninhabited, lonely, waste, for

2. Without care of safety; rash; fearless of Brachet, however, derives dépêcher from a lorn, forsaken, abandoned.

danger; as, a desperate man. hypothetical L.L. dispactare, from L. dis, Desolate (de’so-lāt), v. t. pret. &pp. desolated;

And when the pibroch bids the battle rave, neg., and pango, pactum, to fasten.] 1. To ppr. desolating. (L. desolo, desolatum, to

And level for the charge your arms are laid, send or send away; particularly applied to Where lives the desperate foe that for such onset leave alone, to forsake - de, intens., and the sending of messengers, agents, and let. staid.

Sir W. Scott. solo, to lay waste, from solus, alone. See

ters on special business, and often implying 3. Done or had recourse to without regard SOLE, a.) To deprive of inhabitants; to make

haste; as, the king despatched an envoy to to consequences, or in the last extreme; prodesert; to lay waste; to ruin; to ravage.

the court of Madrid; he despatched orders ceeding from despair; rash; reckless; ex. The island of Atlantis was not swallowed by an or letters to the commander of the forces in earthquake, but was desolated by a particular deluge.

treme; as, a desperate effort; desperate Spain. Bacon.

diseases require desperate remedies. Those, who with the gun, , : : Some hero must be despatched to bear

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Worse than the season, desolate the fields. Thomson. The mournful message to Pelides' ear. Pope. Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.

Contper. Desolately (de'ső-lāt-li), adv. In a desolate 2. To send out of the world; to put to manner. death.

4. Despaired of; lost beyond hope of reDesolateness (de'ső-lāt-nes), n. A state of

covery; irretrievable; past cure; hopeless;

The company shall stone them with stones, and being desolate. despatch them with their swords. Ezek, xxiii. 47.

as, desperate fortunes; a desperate underDesolater (de'ső-lāt-ér), n. One who lays 3. To perform; to execute speedily; to finish.

taking; a desperate situation or condition; waste or desolates; that which desolates.

desperate diseases require desperate reme

Ere we put ourselves in arms, despatch we Desolation (de-so-la'shon), n. 1. The act of

dies.-5. Great in the extreme. (Colloq.)

The business we have talked of. Shak. desolating; destruction or expulsion of in4. To bereave; to deprive.

Concluding all were dest rate sots and fools,

That durst depart from Aristotle's rules. Pope. habitants; devastation; laying waste.

Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, What with your praises of the country, what with

Syn. Hopeless, despairing, desponding, rash,

Of life, of crown, of queen, at once despatched. your discourse of the lamentable desolation thereof,

Shak.

headlong, precipitate, irretrievable, violent, made by the Scots, you have filled me with a great Perhaps, however, in this passage despatch

mad, furious, frantic. compassion.

Spenser. 2. A place deprived of inhabitants or other

has the sense of to send away, to send out of Desperate t (des'pė-rāt), n. A desperate the world, le of is equal to from.-5. To

man.

Doune. wise wasted, ravaged, and ruined. rid; to free.

Desperately (des'pé-rät-li), adv. 1. In a How is Babylon become a desolation among the I had clean despatched myself of this great charge.

desperate manner, as in despair; hence, nations. Jer. 1. 23.

Uttall.

furiously: with rage; madly; without re3. The state of being desolated or laid waste; Spelled also Dispatch.-Syn. To expedite, gard to danger or safety; as, the troops the state of being desolate; gloominess; des- hasten, speed, accelerate, perform,conclude,

fought desperately.-2. Greatly; extremely; titution; ruin. finish, slay, kill.

violently. (Colloq. ) Choose them for your lords who spoil and burn | Despatcht (des-pach), v.i. 1. To conclude She fell desperately in love with him. Addison. whole countries and call desolation peace. Fisher. an affair with another; to transact and Desperateness (des’pé-rät-nes), n. Madness;

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to finish. desołation, Mat. xii. 25

fury; rash precipitance; violence; virulence.

They have despatched with Pompey. Shak. 4. The agency by which anything is deso

The foul elephantine leprosy, alleviated for an lated. 2. To go expeditiously.

hour, reappears in new force and desperateness next hour.

Carlyle. Desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which Despatch, I say, and find the forester. Shak. thou shalt not know. Is. xlvii. II.

1. A deDespatch (des-pach'), n. 1. The act of des. Desperation (des-pe-rā'shon), n. Syn. Ruin, destruction, havoc, devastation, patching, or state of being despatched;

spairing; a giving up of hope. Desperation

of success.' Hammond.-2. Hopelessness; ravage, sadness, destitution, melancholy, dismissal on an errand or on a commission. gloom, gloominess. "The several messengers from hence at

despair; as, the men were in a state of desDesolator (de'ső-låt-ér), n. One who de- tend despatch.' Shak. - 2. The sending

peration. Hence--3. Fury; rage; disregard solates. Byron. away or despatching of anything, as the

of safety or danger; as, the men fought with Desolatory (de-soʻla-to-ri), a. Causing de- winding up of a business; the getting rid of

desperation; they were urged to despera

tion. Bolation. Desolatory judgments.' Bp. Hall. or doing away with something; dismissal;

The very place puts toys of desperation, (Rare.)

riddance. 'A quick despatch of complaints.' Without more motive into every brain. Shak. Desophisticate (de-ső-fist’ik-át), v.t. To Shak.

Despicability (des'pi-ka-bil'i-ti), n. Desclear from sophism or error. Hare. (Rare.) What needed then that terrible despatch of it into

picableness. Eclec. Rev. Despair (de-spăr'), n. (See the verb.] 1. Hope- your pocket?

Shak. lessness; a hopeless state; a destitution of 3. Speedy performance; execution or trans. Despicable (des’pi-ka-bl), a. [L.L. despica

bilis, from L. despicor, despicatus, to despise, hope or expectation.

action of business with due diligence. from despicio. See DESPISE.] That may be We are perplexed, but not in despair.

Affected despatch is one of the most dangerous or deserves to be despised; contemptible; 2 Cor. iv. 8. things to business that can be.

Bacon. base; mean; vile; worthless : applicable Despair is the thought of the unattainableness of

4. Speed; haste; expedition; due diligence; equally to persons and things; as, a despiany good, which works differently in men's minds, sometimes producing uneasiness or pain, sometimes

as, the business was done with despatch; go, cable man; despicable company; a despi. rest and indolency.

Locke. but make despatch. Makes all swift des- cable gift. --- Contemptible, Despicable, Pal2. That which causes despair; that of which patch in pursuit of the thing.' Shak.–5. Con- try, Pitiful. See under CONTEMPTIBLE. there is no hope. duct; management.

SYN. Contemptible, mean, vile, worthless, The mere despair of surgery, he cures. Shak.

You shall put

pitiful, sordid, low, base, degrading.

This night's great business into my despatch. Despicableness (des'pi-ka-bl-nes), n. The 3. In theol. loss of hope in the mercy of God.

Shak. quality or state of being despicable; mean. May not hope in God, or godly sorrow, be perverted 6. A letter sent or to be sent with expedi

ness; vileness; worthlessness. Despicable. into presumption or des parir. Bp. Sprat. tion by a messenger express; or a letter on

ness of the gift.' Boyle. SYN. Desperation, despondency, hopeless- some affair of state or of public concern; or Despicably (des'pi-ka-bli), adv. Meanly; ness. a packet of letters, sent by some public

vilely; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy. Despair (dé-spār), v. i. (O. Fr. desperer (now officer on public business: often used in the

Despiciency (dė-spi'shen-si), n. (L. despicio, désespérer), from L. despero-de, priv., and plural; as, a vessel or a messenger has

to look down upon -de, down, and spicio, spero, to hope. Spero is allied to Skr. root arrived with despatches; a despatch was

specio, to look.) A looking down; a despissprih, to desire. Prosper is from same root.) immediately sent to the admiral.

ing Mede. (Rare.) To be without hope; to give up all hope or Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt

Despicable;

Despisable (de-spīz'a-5l), a. expectation: followed by of.

In the despatch.

Byron,

contemptible. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. 7. A decisive answer. To-day we shall Despisalt (de - spīz'al), n. Contempt. "A Never desmitir of God's blessings here or of his have our despatch.' Shak. - Happy des- despisal of religion.' South. reward hereafter

Wake.
patch. See HARRI-KARRI.

Despise (dė spiz'), v.t. pret. & pp. despised; - Despair, Despond. See under DESPOND. Despatcher (des-pach'ér), n. One who de

ppr. despising. [0. Fr. despiz, pp. of despire, Despairt (de-spár), v.t. 1. To give up hope spatches.

from L. despicio-de, down, and spicio, of; to lose confidence in.

Despatchful, Dispatchful (des-pach'ful, specio, to look. See SPECIES.) 1.1 To look I would not despair the greatest design that could dis-pach'ful), a. Bent on haste; indicating upon; to contemplate. be attempted.

Milton.
haste; intent on speedy execution of busi-

Thy God requireth thee here the fulfilling of all 2. To cause to despair; to deprive of hope. ness. Despatchful looks.' Milton.

his precepts, it thou despisest to live with him for

Bacon. To despair the governour to deliver it into the Let one dispatchful bid some swain to lead enernes hands.

Sir R. Williams.

A well-fed bullock froin the grassy mead. Pope. 2. To contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have Despairer (de-spār'ér), n. One without Despect (de-spekt), n. Despection; con

the lowest opinion of. hope. tempt. Coleridge. (Rare.)

Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Despairfult (de-spår'ful), a. Full of, or in. Despection (de-spek'shon), n. [L. despectio, Ay, do despise me. I'm the prouder for it; I like dicating, despair; hopeless. Despairful a looking down upon, from despicio, des- to be despised.

Bickerstaf outcries.' Spenser.

pectum, to look down upon. See DESPISE. ) 3. To abhor; to hate; to detest.

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Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever, plies a total loss of hope, which dexpond 3. Fig. absolute power or influence of any
Which shall possess then with the heaviest sound

does not, at least in every case, yet despon- kind. That ever yet they heard.

Shak.

dency is followed by the abandonment of Such is the despotism of the imagination over unSex. To contemn, scorn, disdain, slight, effort or cessation of action, and despair cultivated minds.

Macaulay. spurn

sometimes impels to violent action, even - Despotism, Tyranny. Both of these words Despisedness (de-spiz'ed-nes), n. The state

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to rage.

imply absolute power. Despotism is strictly of being despised.

Despond (de-spond), n. Despondency. “The the exercise of absolute power, in conformDespiser (uė-spiz'ér), 1. A contemner; a Slough of Despond.' Bunyan.

ity with legal sanction. It does not necesscorer

Despondence (ile-spond'ens), n. Same as sarily imply either regard for the welfare of Despisingly (dé-spiz'ing-li), ado. With con

Despondency. Looks of despondence.' Gold- the subjects or its opposite, oppression, tempt. sinith.

Tyranny is the abuse of absolute power, Despite (de-spīt'). n. (O. Fr. despit, Mod. Fr. Despondency (de-spond'en-si), n. A sinking legal or usurped, and implies oppression dépit, from L. despectus, a looking down or dejection of spirits at the loss of hope; Despumate (de-spū'mät), r. i. (L. despumo, upon, a despising, from despicio, to despise.

loss of courage at the failure of hope, or in despumatum, to skim off – de, off, and See DESPISE. Hence the shorter form spite.] i deep affliction, or at the prospect of insur- spumo, to foam, from spuma, froth, scum. 1. Extreme malice; malignity; contemptu. mountable difficulties; permanent dejection See SPLE, SPEW) To throw off impurities; ous hate; aversion; spite. or depression of spirit.

to foam; to froth; to form froth or scum.
With all thy despite against the land of Israch
We poets in our youth begin in gladness:

Cheyne. (Rare.)
Ezek. xxv. 6. But thereof come in the end despondency and mad. Despumate (de-spū'mát), v.t. To throw off
Thou wretch! despite o'erwhelm thee. Shak.

Wordsworth.

in foam. Cheyne. (Rare.) 2. Defiance with contempt, or contempt of Despondent (de-spond'ent), a. Losing cour- Despumation (de-spū-ma'shon), n.

The opposition; contemptuous defiance.

age at the loss of hope; sinking into dejec- act of throwing off excrementitious matter Receive thy friend, who, scoring flight,

tion; depressed and inactive in despair. and forming a froth or scum on the surface Goes to meet danger with despite,

Despondently de-spond'ent-li), adv. With- of liquor; clarification; scumming.
Proudly as thou the tempest's might,
out hope.

Desquamate (de-skwa'mat), r.i. (L. de.
Dark rolling wave. Longfellow.
Desponder (de-spond'er), n. One destitute

squamo, desquamatum, to scale off ; to peel
3. An act of malice or contempt. 'A de.
of hope

off-de, off, and squama, a scale.) To scale spite done against the Most High.' Milton. Desponding (de-spond'ing), p. and a. De

off; to peel off. - In derpite of, in spite of; in successful

spairing: given to despondency; despondcounteraction of; notwithstanding. “Seized

The cuticle now begins to desqua mate. Plumbe.
ent. ‘Superstitions and desponding weak-
my hand in despite of my efforts to the con-

ness.'
Sir R. L'Estrange.

A

Desquamation (de-skwa ma'shon), n. trary. W. Irring. Despondingly (de-spond'ing-li), adr. In a

scaling or exfoliation of bone; the separaDespite (dé-spit'), t.t. To vex; to offend; to desponding manner; with dejection of

tion of the cuticle in small scales. tease. [Rare.) spirits; despairingly.

Desquamative, Desquamatory(de-skwā'. Saturn, with his wife Rhea, fled by night, setting Desponsaget (de-spon'sāj), n. Betrothal. ma-tiv, de-skwå ma-to-ri), a. Relating to, the town on fire, to despite Bacchus.

consisting in, or partaking of the char-
Sir W. Raleigh.
Ethelbert ... went peaceably to King Offa for

acter of desquamation. *Desquamative ne-
desponsage of Athiirid, his daughter. Fexr.
Despite (de-spit'), prep. In spite of; not-

phritis.' Watson. withstanding

Desponsatet (de-spons'at), v.t. [L desponso,
to betroth-de, intens., and sponsus, pp. of

The desquamatory stage now begins. Plumbe.
Despite his exceeding sensibility, our friend some-

In times says the most astounding things.

spondeo, sponsum, to promise solemnly.) To Desquamatory (de-skwā'ma-to-ri), n. Saturday Rev. betroth. Cockeram.

surg. a kind of trepan formerly used for Despiteful (dě-spit'ful), a. Full of despite | Desponsationt (de-spons-ā'shon), n. A be- removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones. or spite; malicious; malignant; as, a de. trothing.

Desse, n. A desk or dais. Spenser. spiteful enemy.

For all this desponsation of her, . . . she had not

Dessert (dle-zért), n. [Fr. dessert, from des.
Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters.

set one step toward the consummation of her mar. serrir, to clear the table--de, and serrir, to
Roin i. 30.
riage.

Jer. Tayior. serve.) A service of fruits and sweetmeats,
Despitefully (dé-spit'fyl-li), adr. With de- Despot (des'pot), n. (Gr. despotēs, a master,

at the close of an entertainment, the last spite; maliciously; contemptuously. from same root as Gr. posis, Lith. and Skr.

course at the table, after the meat is re

moved. Pray for them that despitefully use you.

patis, lord, husband, and L. potior, to be masMat. v. 44

ter of, as also the adjective potis, able, cap- Dessiatine (des'i-a-tin), n. A Russian land Despitefulness (de-spit'fyl-nes), n. Malice; able, potestas, power; Slav. hospodar, gos- measure = 2.702 English acres. Written also extreme hatred: malignity. podar, lord, master.) 1. An emperor, king,

Deciatine. Despiteous, t Dispiteoust (de-spītē-us, dis- or prince, invested with absolute power, or The right of personal vote belongs to those who pit'e-118), a [See DESPITE.] Despiteful; ruling without any control from men, con

possess 100 male serfs, or 300 dessialines of ground,

Brougham. malicious; furious.

stitution, or laws: a title more particularly Dessus (dá-su), n. (Fr.) The soprano or
To Jewes despiteous
used under the Byzantine Empire.

highest part in music. [This term is not
Delivered up the Lord of life to die. Spenser. The despots of Epirus long ruled their dominions
When him he spied
by employing the various resources of the different

now used by English musicians.) Spurring so hote with rage dispiteous. Spenser.

A kind of classes of their subjects for the general good.

Destemper (des-tem'per), n.

They all assumed the title of Angelos, Komnenos, painting; the same as Distemper (which see). Despiteouslyt (dê-spit'ê-us-li), adr. Furi

Ducas; and the title of despot, by which they are Destin † (des'tin), n. Destiny. "The destin's ously.

generally distinguished, was a Byzantine honorary adamantine band.' Marston. Despitous, t Dispitous, t a. The same as

distinction, never borne by the earlier members of
the family until it had been conferred on them by

Destinable (des'tin-a-bl), a. Capable of
Despiteous. Hertes despitous.' Chaucer. the Greek emperor.

Finlay.

being destined or determined. Jiracle of Though holy he were and vertuous, Hence--2. In a general sense, a tyrant; one

the order destinable.' Chaucer. He was to sinful men not dispitous. Chancer

who enforces his will regardless of constitu- Destinably (des'tin-a-bli), adv. In a desDespitously,t ado. With despite; con

tinalle manner. tion or laws, or the interests and rights of temptuously; angrily. “Out the child he others. In this sense it may be applied to

Destinalt (des'tin-al), a. Pertaining to hent despitously.' Chaucer. a class as well as to an individual.

destiny; determined by destiny; fated. Despoil (de-spoil), v.t. (L. despolio, to rob,

“The destinal chain.' Chaucer.

A despot is the individual or class in whose favour plunder-de, intens., and spolio, to spoil. and for whose benefit such a government is carried

Destinatet (des'tin-át), v.t. pret. & pp. des. See SPOIL.] 1. To strip; to take from by A despot may thus include any number of per- tinated; ppr. destinating. (L. destino, desforce; to rob; to deprive: followed by of; sons from unity upward-from a monarch to a mob. tinatum, to place down. See DESTINE.)

Chambers's Encyc. as, to despoil one of arms; to despoil of

To design or appoint; to destine. (Rare.) honours: Despoild of innocence, of faith, Despotat (des’pot-at), n. Government by

Birds are destinated to fly among the branches of of bliss. Milton. — 2. To strip or divest by a despot; the territory governed l y a despot; trees and bushes.

Ray. any means. a race or succession of despots of the same

Destinate (des'tin-át), a. Appointed; des. Though most were sorely wounded, none were slain, line or family, who govern a particular ter

tined; determined. Destinate to hell.' The surgeons soon despoild them of their arms, ritory. Finlay. See DESPOT.

Fore.
And some with salves they cure, and some with Despotic, Despotical (des-pot’ik, des-pot'- Destination (des-tin-ā'shon), n. [L. desti.
charnis.

Dryden.
ik-al), a.

1. Absolute in power; indepenSYN. To strip, deprive, roh, bereave, rifle. dent of control from men, constitution, or

natio, a setting fast, a fixing, from destino,

destinatum. See DESTINE.) 1. The act of Despoilt (de-spoil'), n. Spoil; plunder; de- laws; arbitrary in the exercise of power. A spoliation. despotic prince.' Addison. -2. Unlimited or

destining or appointing; appointment; nomi

nation. — 2. The purpose for which any. My houses be, by the oversight, despoil, and evil unrestrained by constitution, laws, or men;

thing is intended or appointed; end or ultibehaviour of such as I did trust, in ruin and decay. absolute; arbitrary; tyrannical; as, despotic IDolsey.

mate design: predetermined object or use; authority or power. Despoiler (de-spoiler), n. One who strips

as, every aninial is fitted for its destination.

God's universal law by force; a plunderer.

3. The place to which a thing is appointed :

Gave to the man despotic power Despoilment (dle-spoil'ment), n. The act of

Over his fernale.

Milton.

the predetermined end of a journey or voydespoiling; a plundering. Hobhouse. Despotically (des-pot'ik-al-li), adv.

age; as, the ship left her destination.

With Despoliation (de-spo'li-a"shon), n. The act unlimited power; arbitrarily; in a despotic

It (the fleet) had as many destinations, ... as of despoiling; a stripping.

there were countries.

Southey. manner. Despond (de-spond'), 0. i. (L. despondeo, to pro- Despoticalness (des-pot'ik-al-nes), n. Ab

4. In Scots law, a term, generally speaking. mise in marriage, to promise away, to give solūte or arbitrary authority.

applied to the series of heirs called to the up (despondere animum or animos means Despotism (des'pot-izm), n. (See DESPOT.)

succession of heritable or movable property, to lose courage, to despond)de, away, and 1. Absolute power; authority unlimited and

by the provision of the law or title or by the spondeo, to promise solemnly) 1. To be cast

will of the proprietor; but usually applied down; to be depressed or dejected in mind;

uncontrolled by men, constitution, or laws,
and depending alone on the will of the

in a more limited sense to a nomination of
to lose heart or resolution.
prince; as, the despotisin of a Turkish sultan.

successors in a certain order, regulated by I should despair, or at least despond. 2 An arbitrary government; the rule of a

the will of the proprietor. -SYN. AppointScott's Letters. despot; absolutism; autocracy.

ment, design, purpose, intention, destiny, Others depress their own minds, and despond at

lot, fate. the first difficulty.

.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself neglect the education of its

Destine (des'tin), v.t. pret. & pp. destined; ---Despair, Despond. Although despair im

Bp. Horsley. ppr. destining. (L. destino, to place down,

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to make firm or secure-de, and a root stan, 3. To ruin; to overthrow; to annihilate; as, Destructiveness (de-strukt'iv-nes), n. 1. The a stronger form of sta, root of stare, to stand. to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a quality of destroying or ruining. -2. In The English stand, stay, belong to the same government; to destroy influence.

phren, a propensity whose function is to root) 1. To set, ordain, or appoint to a use,

Destroy his fib or sophistry-in vain!

produce the impulse to destroy. purpose, state, or place; as, we destine a son The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope. Destructor (de-strukt'er), n. A destroyer; to the ministerial office, a house for a place 4. To lay waste; to make desolate.

a consumer. of worship, a ship for the London trade, or

Destruie.t See DESTRIE.

Go up against this land, and destroy it. Is. xxxvi. 10. to Lisbon. -2. To fix unalterably, as by a

Desudation (dé-su-dā'shon), n. [L. desudo-divine decree; to doom; to devote; to ap

5. To kill; to slay; to extirpate: applied to de, and sudo, to sweat.] In med. a sweating; point unalterably. men or other animals.

a profuse or morbid sweating, often sucNot enjoyment and not sorrow

Ye shall destroy all this people. Num. xxxii. 15. ceeded by an eruption of pustules, called Is our destined end or way. Longfellow. If him by force he can destroy, or worse,

heat-pimples.
We are decreed,
By some false guile pervert.

Milton. Desuete (des'wēt), a. Out of use; fallen into Reserved and destued to eternal woe. Milton.

6. To take away; to canse to cease; to put desuetude. (Rare.) Sex. To design, mark out, intend, devote, an end to; as, pain destroys happiness. Desuetude (des'wé-tūd), 12. [L. desuetudo, consecrate, doom, ordain, decree.

discontinuance, from desuesco, desuetum, to Destinist (des'tin-ist), 1.

That the body of sin might be destroyed. Rom. vi. 6.
A believer in

break off a custom or habit-de, priv., and destiny

Sex. To demolish, lay waste, consume, raze, SUC Sco, to accustom one's self, from suus, Destiny (des'ti-ni), n. (See DESTINE. ) 1. State dismantle, ruin, throw down, overthrow,

own, se, self.] The cessation of use; disuse; or condition appointed or predetermined; subvert, desolate, devastate, deface, extir- discontinuance of practice, custom, or ultimate fate; doom; lot; fortune; des- pate, extinguish, kill, slay.

fashion; as, habit is contracted by practice, tination; as, men are solicitous to know Destroyable (de-stroi'a-bl), a.

That may

and lost by desuetude; words in every lantheir future destiny, which is, however, be destroyed. [Rare.]

guage are lost by desuetude. happily concealed from them. Plants scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.

The sumptuary laws have fallen into such a state That great battle was fought for no single genera. Destroyer (dē-stroi'er), 1. One who or that

of desuetude as was never before seen, Carlyle. tion, for no single land. The destinies of the human which destroys; one who or that which kills, Desulphurate, Desulphurize (de - sulfūrace were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people.

Macaulay.
ruins, or makes desolate.

rāt, dé-sul'fü-riz), v.t. To deprive of sulphur. 2. Invincible necessity; fate; a necessity or Destruct+ (dē-strukt'), v.t. To destroy.

Desulphuration, Desulphurization (dė. “Creatures fixed order of things established by a divine Destructibility (de-strukt'i-bil”i-ti), n. The

wholly destructed.' Mede.

sul'-fu-ra"shon, dé-sul'fū-riz-a"shon), n. The decree, or by an indissoluble connection of

act of depriving of sulphur. quality of being capable of destruction.

In a de

Desultorily (de'sul-to-ri-li), adv. canses and effects.

Destructible (de-strukt'i-bl), a. [L. destruo, sultory manner; without method; loosely. But who can turn the stream of destiny! Spenser. destructum. See DESTROY.] Liable to de- Desultoriness (de'sul-to-ri-nes), n. The 3. pl. In clase myth. the Parcæ or Fates; struction; capable of being destroyed.

character of being desultory; unconnectedthe supposed powers which preside over Destructibleness (de-strukt'i-bl-nes), n.

ness; discursiveness; as, the desultoriness human life, spin it out, and determine it. The state of being destructible.

of a speaker's remarks. Destinies do cut his thread of life.' Shak. Destruction (de-struk'shon), n. [L. destruc- Desultorious t (de-sul-to'ri-us), a. DesulSee FATE tio, a pulling down, from destruo, destruc

tory. Jer. Taylor. Destituentt (des-ti'tū-ent), a. Wanting;

tum. See DESTROY.] 1. The act of destroy- Desultory (de'sul-to-ri), a. (L. desultorius, deficient. ing; demolition; a pulling down; subversion;

pertaining to a desultor, or rider in the cirWhen any condition is destituent or wanting, the ruin, by whatever means; as, the destruction

cus, from desilio, desultum, to leap downduty itself falls. Fer. Taylor. of buildings or of towns. Destruction con

de, down, and salio, to leap.) 1.7 Leaping; Destitute (des'ti-tūt), a. (L. destitutus, pp. sists in the annihilation of the form of any

hopping about; consisting of leaps. Desulof destituo, destitutum, to set down, to forthing, that form of parts which constitutes

tory and rapid motion.' Gilbert White. sake--de, down, away, and statuo, to set; it what it is; as, the destruction of grass or

I shot at it, but it was so desultory that I missed lit. set from or away. ] 1. Not having or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting

my aim

Gilbert White. possessing; wanting; as, destitute of virtue down the trees; or it denotes a total anni

2. Passing from one thing or subject to anhilation; as, the destruction of a particular or of piety; destitute of food and clothing.

other without order or natural connection; It differs from deprived, as it does not necesgovernment; the destruction of happiness.

unconnected; immethodical; as, a desultory sarily imply previous possession. “Totally 2. Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.

conversation destitute of all shadow of influence.' Burke. There was a deadly destruction throughout all the He knew nothing accurately, his (Goldsmith's) read.

i Sam. V. II.

city, 2 Not possessing the necessaries of life;

ing had been desultory.

Macaulay. needy; ahject; poor; as, the family has been 3. The state of being destroyed; ruin. "So 3. Inconstant; unstable. Of unstable, i.e. left destitute,

near destruction brought.' Waller.-4. Cause of light, desultory, and unbalanced minds.' Destitute (des'ti-tūt), n. sing, and pl. A of destruction; a consuming plague; a de- Atterbury.--4. Coming suddenly; started at destitute person or persons. stroyer.

the moment; not proceeding from natural He will regard the prayer of the destitute. Ps. cii. 17. The destruction that wasteth at noon-day. Ps.xci. 6. order or connection with what precedes. 'A Have pity on this poor destitud. P. St. John. 5. In the Talmud of the Jewish Rabbis, one

desultory thought.'

L'Estrange.

- SYN. Destitutet (des'ti-tūt), v.t. 1. To forsake,

Rambling, unconnected, unsystematic, imof the seven names for Gehenna or hell.

un

methodical, discursive, inconstant, desert, abandon. Ps. lxxxviii. 11.-SYN. Demolition, subver

settled, cursory, slight, hasty, loose. sion, overthrow, desolation, extirpation, Desumet (de-súm'), v.t. [L. desumo. It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or

See Bacon. destutate a plantation. extinction, devastation, downfall, extermi

ASSUME.) To take from; to borrow. Sir M. 2. To render destitute; to cause to be in nation, havoc, ruin.

Hale. want. Destructionable (dle - struk'shon-a-bl), a.

Desvauxiace (da-vỡzi-a”so-e), m. pl. [After He was willing to part with his places upon hopes Committing destruction ; destructive. not to be destituted', but to be preferred to one of the H. More. [Rare.)

N. Desvaux, a French botanist.) A natural baron's places in Ireland.

Bacon.
Destructionist (de-struk'shon-ist), n.

order of monocotyledonous, small, tufted 1.

herbs, with bristly leaves and flowers in3. To disappoint. His expectation is des- One who delights in destroying; a destructituted.' Potherby.

closed in a spathe, found in the South Sea tive.-2. In theol. one who believes in the

Islands and Australia. The order is divided Destituteness (des'ti-tüt-nes), n. The state final complete destruction, or annihilation,

into four genera. of being destitnte; destitution. (Rare.) of the wicked. Destitution (des-ti-tū'shon), n. 1. The state Destructive (dē-strukt'iv), a. Causing de

Desynonymization (de-sin-on'im-iz-ā".

shon), n. struction; having the quality of destroying; Desynonymize (dē-sin-on'im-iz), v.t. [Preof being destitute; want; poverty; indigence.

The act of desynonymizing. Left in so great destitution.' Hooker. having a tendency to destroy; delighting in 2. Absence of anything; deprivation.

fix de, priv., and synonymize.) To give a destruction; ruinous; mischievous; pernici

turn of meaning to so as to prevent from I am unhappy,--thy mother and thyself at a dis. ous: with of or to; as, a destructive fire; a

being absolutely synonymous; to use with tance frorn me; and what can compensate for such a destructive disposition; intemperance is

kindred but not the same meanings. Coledestitution. Sterne. destructive of health; evil examples are

ridge; Trench, destructive to the morals of youth. ---DestrucDestreine, t v.t. (0. Fr. distraindre-L. dis

Detach (dē-tach'), v.t. (Fr. détacher--de, tive distillation, a term applied to the disand stringere. See CONSTRAIN.) To vex; to constrain. Chaucer.

priv., and the root from which the English tillation of organic products at high tempeDestrer, t n. [Fr. destrier; L.L. dextrarius, ratures, by which the elements are sepa

noun tack is derived. See TACK, ATTACH.] a heavy war-horse--so called because led at rated or evolved in new combinations. The

1. To separate or disunite; to disengage; to the derter or right hand till wanted in destructive distillation of coal produces the

part from; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous battle.) A war-horse. ordinary illuminating gas; that of bone,

root from each other; to detach a man from

the interest of the minister or from a party. ammonia; and that of wood, pyroligneous By bim baited his destrer

2. To separate for a special purpose or serof herbes fin and good.

acid or wood-vinegar.-SYN. Mortal, deadly, Chaucer.

vice: used chiefly in a military sense; as, to Destrie, † Destruie, + v. t. To destroy. fatal, ruinous, malignant, baleful, perni.

detach a ship from a fleet, or a regiment cious, mischievous. Chaucer.

One who or

from a brigade. Destroy (de-stroi'), v. t. [O. Fr. destruire Destructive (de-strukt'iv), n.

If ten men are in war with forty, and the latter de. that which destroys; one who favours the (now détruire); O. E. destruie, distruye, to

tach only an equal number to the engagement, what demolition of ancient buildings, &c., on the lestroy, from L destruo, to pull down,

benefit do they receive from their superiority: to destroy-de, priv., and struo, to pile, to plea of public convenience; a disturber of

Addison build. See STRUCTURE.) 1. To demolish; to existing institutions, customs, and the like; SYN. To separate, disunite, disengage, sever, pull down; to separate the parts of an edi- a radical.

disjoin, withdraw, draw off. fice, the union of which is necessary to con- Applying to each other what Bentham would have Detach (dē-tach'), v.i. To become detached stitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or called the dyslogistic names of the day, Anarchist,

or separated; to separate or disunite itself Destructive, and the like.

Finlay. temple; to destroy a fortification.-2. To

or one's self. (Rare.)

With ruin; to annihilate; to put an end to, as by Destructively (de-struktiv-li), adv.

Detaching, fold by fold, demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a destruction; ruinously; mischievously; with From those still heights, and, slowly, drawing near,

A vapour heavy, hueless, formless, cold, power to destroy. “The doctrine that states city.

Tennyson.

Came floating on. the time of repentance destructively to a Solyman sent his army, which burnt and destroyed the country villages, Knolles. pious life.' South.

Detached (dē-tacht) a. 1. Separated; parted ch, chain; ch, Sc. loch; 8, go; j, job; n, Fr. ton;

ng, sing; TH, then; th, thin; w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.-See KEY.

DETACHMENT

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DETERMINATION

from; disunited; drawn and sent on a sepa- two species are known-D. senegalense and to cleanse by wiping-de, from, and tergeo, rate service; as, detached parcels or portions. D. microcarpum. The former is a tree 20 to wipe, to scour. See TERSE.) To cleanse;

The Europeans live in detached houses, each sur. to 35 feet high, bearing a somewhat oval to clear away foul or offending matter from rounded by walls inclosing large gardens.

fruit about the size of an apricot, of which the body or from a wound or ulcer.

Dr. J. H. Russell. there are two varieties, the one bitter and Detergent (de-térj'ent), a. Cleansing; purgA detached body of the French lying in their way

the other sweet. The latter is sold in the there followed a very sharp engagement. Burnet.

ing markets, and prized by the negroes, as well The food ought to be nourishing and detergent. 2. In painting, applied to figures, buildings, as eagerly sought after by monkeys and

Arbuthnot. trees, &c., when they are painted so as to other animals. The bitter fruit is regarded Detergent (de-térj'ent), n. Anything that appear standing out from the back-ground as a violent poison. The wood of the tree is

has a strong cleansing power; a medicine in a natural manner, while the other parts hard, and resembles mahogany.

that has the power of cleansing wounds, appear in proper relative situations. Detect (de-tekt'), v. t. [L. detego, detectum,

ulcers, &c., from offending matter. Detachment (dé-tach'ment), n. 1. The act of detaching or separating -- 2. State of be

to uncover, expose-de, priv., and tego, to

Deteriorate (dé-te'ri-o-rat), r. i. pret. & pp. cover. See DECK.) 1. To discover; to find

deteriorated; ppr. deteriorating. (L deteing detached. – 3. The thing or part deout; to bring to light; as, to detect the

rioro, deterioratum, to make worse, from tached; specifically, a body of troops selected ramifications and inosculations of the fine

deterior, compar. of an obs. adjective deor taken from the main army and employed vessels; to detect an error in an account.

terus, from de, as erterus from ex, inon some special service or expedition; or a

terus from in, &c.) To grow worse; to be

Though should I hold my peace, yet thou number of ships taken from a fleet and sent

Would'st easily detect what I conceal. Milton.

impaired in quality; to degenerate. on a separate service. A strong detachment of Sarsfield's troops ap2. To show; to let appear. Shak. -- 3. + To

L'nder such conditions the mind rapidly deteriorates.

Gold'smith. proached.

Macaulay.
inform against; to complain of; to accuse.

Deteriorate (de-tē'ri-o-rát), v.t. To make Detail (de-tāl), v. t. (Fr. détailler, to cut in

He was untruly judged to have preached such

worse; to reduce in quality; as, to deterioarticles as he was detected of.

Sir T. More. pieces-de, and tailler, to cut, from L talea,

rate a race of men or their condition. At a rod, a layer or cutting, which produced

SYN. To ascertain, discover, find out, find. the expense of impairing the philosophical the L. L. taleare, taliare, to cut. See RETAIL, Detectable, Detectible (de-tekt'a-bl, de

powers, and, on the whole, deteriorating the TAILOR.] 1. To relate, report, or narrate

tekti-bl), a. That may be detected. • Par. mind. Whately.

ties not detectable.' Fuller. in particulars; to recite the particulars

* These errors Deterioration (de-tē'ri-ā-rä"shon), n. of; to particularize; to relate minutely and are detectible at a glance.' Latham.

growing or making worse; the state of distinctly; as, he detailed all the facts in Detecter, n. Same as Detector.

growing worse. due order. ---2. Milit. to appoint to a parti- Detection (de-tek'shon), n. The act of de. Deteriority (dé-tē'ri-o "ri-ti), n. Worse cular service, as an officer or a body of

tecting; the finding out of what is con- state or quality. The deteriority of diet.' troops.---To detail on the plane, in arch. to

cealed, hidden, or formerly unknown; dis- Ray. be exhibited in profile by abutting against

covery; as, the detection of an error; the Determent (de-ter'ment), n. (See DETER.) the plane: said of a moulding.

detection of a thief or a burglar; the detec- The act of deterring; the cause of deterDetail (de-tal'), n. (Fr. See the verb.) 1. An

tion of fraud or forgery; the detection of ring; that which deters. individual part; an item; a portion; a parartifice, device, or a plot.

These are not all the determents that opposed my ticular; as, the account is accurate in all its The sea and rivers are instrumental to the detection obeying you.

Boyle. of amber and other fossils, by washing away the details. 2. A minute account; a narrative

earth that concealed them.

Woodward.

Determinability (de-tér'min-a-bil"i-ti), n. or report of particulars; as, he gave a detail

Quality of being determinable.

Fitted for or of all the transaction. --3.' Milit. a body of Detective (de-tekt’iv), a.

Determinable (de-tér'min-a-bl), a. (See troops detailed off for a particular service;

skilled in detecting; employed in detecting; DETERMINE.) That may be determined, a detachment.-4. In the fine arts, minute as, the detective police.

ascertained with certainty, decided upon, and particular parts of a picture, statue, or Detective (dé-tekt'iv), n. A species of police

or brought to a conclusion; as, a determinbuilding, as distinguished from the general officer, whose special duty it is to detect

able freehold, that is, an estate for life

His conception or larger parts of a composition. offences and to apprehend criminals.

which may expire upon future contingenDetails of a plan, in arch. drawings or de

duties differ from those of the ordinary cies before the life for which it is created lineations for the use of workmen. Otherpoliceman in that he has no specific beat or

expires. wise called Working Drawings. - In detail,

round, and in that he is concerned with The point now before us is not wholly determinatle circumstantially, item by item; individu

bringing criminals to justice rather than from the bare grammatical use of the words. South. ally; part by part.

directly in the prevention of crime. He is Determinableness (de-têr'min-a-bl-nes), n.

There I was unable to treat this part of my subject more usually or always in plain clothes.

State of being determinable. (Rare.) in detail, without becoming dry and tedious. Pope.

are also private detectives who investigate Determinant (de-tér'min-ant), a. Serving Concentrate your own force, divide that of your cases, often of a delicate nature, for hire. to determine; determinative. Coleridge. enemy, and overwhelin him in detail, is the great Detector (de-tekt'ér), n. One who, or that

Determinant (de-tér'min-ant), n. 1. That principle of military action.

Macdougall. which, detects or brings to light; one who which determines or causes determination. SYN. Item, particular, part, portion,account, finds out what another attemps to conceal; 2. In math. the name given to the sum of a relation, narrative, recital, report. a revealer; a discover.

series of products of several numbers, these Detailed (dé-tald), p. and a. 1. Related in A death-bed's a detector of the heart. Young products being formed according to certain particulars; minutely recited; as, a detailed

Detenebratet (dé-ten'e-brát), v. t. (L. de, specified laws. The method of determinants account. -- 2. Exact; minute; particular. 'A detailed examination.' Macaulay.

and tenebræ, darkness.) To remove dark- is of great use in the solution of equations ness.

embracing several unknown quantities, enDetailer (dé-tal'ér), n. One who details.

Detent (dē-tent'), n. [L. detentus, a keeping abling the student almost by inspection to Detain (de-tan'), v. t. (Fr. détenir, L. detineo,

back; Fr. détente. See DETAIN.) A pin, write down the values of the unknown to hold down or off, to detain-de, off, and

stud, or lever forming a check in a clock, teneo, to hold, 1 To keep

quantities in terms of the known quanti. See TENANT.)

watch, tumbler-lock, or other machine. The ties. back or from; to withhold; to keep what

detent in a clock falls into the striking Determinate (de-ter'min-at), a. (L. deterbelongs to another.

wheel, and stops it when the right number minatus, pp. of determino, determinatum. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor. of strokes have been given. The detent of See DETERMINE.] 1. Limited; fixed; defi2. To keep or restrain from proceeding, either a ratchet-wheel prevents back motion. nite; as, a determinate quantity of matter. going or coming; to stay or stop; as, we Detention (de-tenʻshon), n. (See DETAIN.) 'A determinate number of feet.' Dryden. were detained by the rain.

1. The act of detaining; a withholding from 2. Established; settled; positive; as, a deLet us delain thee, until we shall have made ready

another his right; a keeping what belongs terminate rule or order. *The determinate a kid.

Judg. xiii, 15. to another and ought to be restored. De- counsel and foreknowledge of God.' Acts 3. To hold in custody. Blackstone. -SYN. tention of long since due debts.' Shak. -- ii. 23.-3. Decisive; conclusive. 'A deterTo withhold, retain, stop, stay, arrest, check,

2. State of being detained; confinement; minate resolution.' Shak.-4. Resolved on. retard, delay, hinder. restraint; as, detention in custody.

My determinate voyage.' Shak.--5. Fixed Detaint (de-tān'), n. Detention. "The

* Like men ... more Nothing could assure the quiet of both realms

in purpose; resolute. certain cause of Artegals detaine.' Spenser. but their detention in safe custody. Spotswood. determinate to do, than skilful how to do.' Detainer (de-tan'ér), n. 1. One who with3. Delay from necessity; a detaining; as, the

Sidney.--- Determinate inflorescence, in bot. holds what belongs to another; one who detention of the mail by bad roads. Mind

same as centrifugal inflorescence (which see detains, stops, or prevents from going. ing to proceed further south, without long

under CENTRIFUGAL). Determinate proThe detainers of tithes, and cheaters of men's in. detention in these parts.' Hackluyt-IIouse

blem, in geom. and analysis, a problem heritances.

which admits of one solution only, or at Fer. Taylor. of detention, a place where offenders are

least a certain and finite number of solu2. In law, (a) a holding or keeping posses. kept till they are in course of law committed sion of what belongs to another; detention to prison: a lock up; & sponging-house.

tions, being thus opposed to an indeterof what is another's, though the original Deter (de-ter), v. t. pret. & pp. deterred;

minate problem, which admits of an infinite

number of solutions. taking may be lawful. Forcible detainer is ppr. deterring. [L. deterreo, to frighten where a person enters into any lands or from, to prevent_de, from, and terreo, to

Determinatet (de-tér'min-át), v.t. To bring tenements or other possessions and retains frighten.) To discourage and stop by fear;

to an end; to terminate. Shak. possession by force. (b) A process lodgeil to stop or prevent from acting or pro

Determinately (de- tėr'min-át - li), adr. with the sheriff against a person in his ceeding by danger, difficulty, or other con

1. With certainty; precisely; with exact

specification. custody authorizing him to continue to keep sideration which disheartens or counterhim; specifically, a writ by which a prisoner vails the motive for an act; as, we are often The principles of religion are determinately true

or false.

Tillotson. arrested at the suit of one creditor may be deterred from our duty by trivial difficuldetained at the suit of another. ties; the state of the road or a cloudy sky

We perceive the distance of visible objects more

exactly and determinately with two eyes than one. Datainment (dé-tan'ment), n. The act of may deter a man from undertaking a jour

Rent. detaining; detention. ney.

2. Resolutely; with fixed resolve.

* DeterThough the original taking was lawful. my subse- A million of frustrated hopes will not deter us from minately bent to marry' Sidney. quent detainment of theiu after tender of amends is new experiments.

7. A. Mason.

Determinateness (dě-ter'min-at-nes), n. wrongful

Blackstone.

SYN. Discourage, hinder, prevent, restrain, The state of being determinate, certain, or Detarium (de-tā'ri-um), n. (From detar, keep back.

precise. the name of the tree in Senegal.) A genus Deterge (de-térj), v. t. pret. & pp. deterged; Determination (dē - tér'min-ā" shon), n. of West African leguminous trees, of which / ppr. detcrying. (L. detergeo, to wipe away, 1. The act of determining or deciding.

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