DETERMINATIVE 15 DETOUR wars. °/ 2 Decision of a question in the mind; firm differentia.-10. In chem. to ascertain the Detestation (de-test-á'shon), n. Extreme resolution; settled purpose; as, they have quantity of; as, to determine the nitrogen hatred; abhorrence; loathing: with of. acquainted me with their determination. ---- in the atmosphere. -Syn. To conclude, de- We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil 3. Judicial decision; the ending of a contro- cide, end, fix, limit, purpose, resolve, settle, Burke. versy or suit by the judgment of a court; terminate, Detester (dē-test'er), n. One who abhors. as, justice is promoted by a speedy deter. Determine (de-tér/min), v.i. 1. To resolve; Dethrone (de-thron), v.t. pret. & pp. demination of causes, civil and criminal. - to conclude; to come to a decision or reso throned; ppr. dethroning. (Prefix de, from, 4. Absolute direction to a certain end. lution; to settle on some line of conduct and throne, L. hronus, throne. See Remissness can by no means consist with a con- with a fixed purpose to stick to it; as, he THRONE.) 1. To remove or drive from a stant determination of the will to the greatest appa- determined to remain. throne; to depose; to divest of royal authorent good. Locke. He shall pay as the judges determine. Ex. xxi. 22. 5. An ending; a putting an end to; as, the rity and dignity. The right of subjects to Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus. dethrone bad princes.' Macaulay.-2. To determination of a will. 'A speedy deter Acts xx. 16. divest of rule or power, or of supreme power. mination of that war.' Ludlow.-6. The The surest way not to fail is to determine to sucmental habit of settling upon some line of ceed. Sheridan. The republicans being dethroned by Cromwell, were the party whose resentment he had the greatest action with a fixed purpose to adhere to it; 2. To end; to terminate; as, the danger reason to apprehend. Hume. adherence to aims or purposes; resolute- determined by the death of the conspirators. Dethronement (de-thron'ment), n. Reness; as, a man of determination.-7. In It becomes a mischief, and determines in a curse. chem, the ascertainment of the exact pro moval from a throne; deposition of a king, South. portion of any substance in a compound Some estates may determine on future contingen emperor, prince, or any supreme ruler. cies. Blackstone. body; as, the determination of nitrogen Dethroner (dē-thron'er), n. One who de thrones. in the atmosphere.-8. In med, afflux; tend- Determined (dē-términd), p.and a. 1. Ended; ency to flow to, more copiously than is concluded; decided; limited; fixed; settled: Dethronization (de-thrõn'iz-ā"shon), n. normal; as, determination of blood to the resolved; directed.-2. Having a firm or The act of dethroning. head. --- 9. In logic, the act of defining a fix purpose; as, a determined man; or Detinet (de'tin-et). [L., he detains.] In law, notion or concept by adding differentia, and manifesting a firm resolution; as, a deter formerly, a species of action of debt, which thus limiting it.-10. In nat. science, the re- mined countenance.- 3. Definite; deter lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. ferring of minerals, plants, &c., to the spe- minate; precisely marked; resolute. Those cies to which they belong: --Decision, De- many shadows lay in spots determined and Detinụe (deʼti-nú), n. [Fr. détenu, detained; termination, Resolution. détenir, to detain.] In law, the form of acSee under DECI- unmoved.' Wordsworth. SION. - SYN. Decision, conclusion, settle- Determinedly (de-tér/mind-li), adv. In a tion whereby a plaintiff seeks to recover a It ment, termination, purpose, resolution, re chattel personal unlawfully detained. determined manner. solve, firmness. Determiner (dē-ter'min-ėr), n. One who differs from trover, in that in trover the obDeterminative (dē-tér'min-at-iv), a. 1. Hay- decides or determines. ject is to obtain damages for a wrongful ing power to determine or direct to a cer- Determinism (de-términ-izm), 1. A system conversion of the property to defendant's tain end; shaping; directing; conclusive. of philosophy which denies liberty of action use, whereas in detinue the object is to re“Incidents cover the chattel itself. determinative of their to 'man, holding that the will is not free, Detonate (de'to-nát), v.t. pret, & pp. detocourse.' I. Taylor. but is invincibly determined by motives; The determinative power of a just cause, specifically, in the scholastic philosophy, nated; ppr. detonating. (L. detono, detoBramhall. the doctrine that our will is invincibly de. natum, to thunder down-de, and tono, to 2. Limiting; that limits or bounds; as, a termined by a providential motive, that is thunder.) In chem. to cause to explode; to word may be determinative and limit the to say by a motive with which divine Pro burn or inflame with a sudden report. subject. - 3. Having the power of ascertain- vidence always furnishes us, so as in our Detonate (de'to-nāt), v.i. To explode; to ing precisely; that is employed in deter- mental deliberations to make the balance burn with a sudden report; as, nitre detomining; as, determinative tables in the incline in accordance with his views. nates with sulphur. Exnatural sciences, that is, tables arranged Detonating (de'tó-nāt-ing), p. and a. Determinism.-This name is applied by Sir W. for determining the specific character of Hamilton to the doctrine of Hobbes, as contradis. ploding; inflaming with a sudden report.minerals, plants, &c., and to assist in assign tinguished froin the ancient doctrine of fatalism. Detonating powders, or fulminating powing them to their species. Fleming ders, certain chemical compounds, which, Determinative (de-ter'min-at-iv), n. An Deterration (de-te-rā'shon), n. [L. de, and on being exposed to heat or suddenly struck, terra, earth.) The uncovering of anything ideographic sign annexed to a word ex explode with a loud report, owing to one or pressed by a phonetic sign for the purpose which is buried or covered with earth; a more of the constituent parts suddenly as taking from out of the earth. [Rare.) of defining its signification. Thus the figure suming the gaseous state. The chloride and iodide of nitrogen are very powerful of a tree is in the Egyptian hieroglyphics Deterrence (de-tér'ens), n. That which dedeterminative of the name of trees; but the ters; a hindrance; a deterrent. (Rare.] detonating substances. The comfigure so employed does not express the Deterrent (de-ter'ent), a. Having the power pounds of ammonia with silver word of which it is the symbol. The funcor tendency to deter; discouraging; fright and gold, fulminate of silver and tion of a determinative may be illustrated ening of mercury, detonate by slight in our language thus: the words man, city, The deterrent effect of such penalties is in propor. friction, by means of heat, election to their certainty. Bentham, river may be considered determinatives in tricity, or sulphuric acid. - Deto That which dethe following phrases: the man Josephus, Deterrent (de-tèr'ent), n. nating tube, à species of eudio"the city London,' 'the river Dee.' ters or tends to deter. meter, being a stout glass tube Determinator (de-términ-āt-ér), n. One No deterrent is more effective than a punishment used in chemical analysis for dewho determines. which, if incurred, . . . is sure, speedy, and severe. It is tonating gaseous bodies. Bentham. Determine (de-términ), v.t. pret. & pp. de generally graduated into centetermined; ppr. determining. [L. determino, Detersion (dē-tér'shon), n. [From L. deter. simal parts, and perforated by to bound, to limit-de, intens., and termino, geo, deterrum. See DETERGE.] The act of two opposed wires for the purto bound, from terminus, a boundary. See cleansing, as a sore. Detonating pose of passing an electric spark Tube. TERM.) 1. To fix the bounds of; to mark off; Detersive (de-térs'iv), a. (Fr. détersif. See through the gases which are inDETERGE.) to settle; to fix; to establish. Cleansing; having power to troduced into it, and which are cleanse from offensive matter; detergent. confined within it over mercury and water. (God) hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath deter. Detersive (dē-térs'iv), n. A medicine which Detonation (de-to-na'shon), n. An explomined the times before appointed, and the bounds has the power of cleansing ulcers, or carry- sion or sudden report made by the inflamof their habitation. Acts xvii. 26. ing off foul matter. mation of certain combustible bodies, as 2. To end; particularly, to end by the de- Detersively (de-térs'iv-li), adv. In a de- fulminating gold. cision or conclusion of a cause, or of a doubt- tersive manner. Detonator (de'tö-nät-ér), n. That which ful or controverted point; applicable to the Detersiveness (de-térs'iv-nes), n. The qua- detonates. decisions of the mind or to judicial deci- lity of being detersive. Detonization (de'tö-niz-ā"shon), n. The sions; as, I had determined this question in Detest (de-test'), v.t. (L. detestor, to invoke act of exploding, as certain combustible my own mind; the court has determined a deity in cursing, to detest or abominate- bodies. the cause. -3. To end and fix; to settle ulti- de, intens., and testor, to affirm or bear wit- Detonize (de'to-niz), v.t. pret, & pp. detomately; as, this event determined his fate. ness, from testis, a witness.] 1. To abhor; to nized; ppr. detonizing. (See DETONATE.] Milton's subject ... does not determine the fate abominate; to hate extremely; as, to detest To cause to explode; to burn with an exploof single persons or nations, but of a whole species. crimes or meanness. sion; to calcine with detonation. Addison. And love the offender, yet detest th' offence. Pope. 4. To set bounds to; to form the limits of; Detonize (de'to-niz), v.i. To explode; to to bound; to confine; as, yonder hill deter2. To denounce; to condemn. burn with a sudden report. mines our view. The heresy of Nestorius ... was detested in the This precipitate . . . detonizes with a considerEastern churches. Fuller. able noise. The knowledge of man hitherto hath been deter. Fouriroy. mined by the view or sight. Васон. -Hate, Abhor, Detest. See under HATE. Detorsion (dē-tor'shon), n. Same as DetorTo give a direction to; as, impulse may Syn. To abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate. tion. determine a moving body to this or that Detestable (dő-test'a-bl), a. Extremely Detort (de-tort'), v.t. [L. detorqueo, detorpoint; hence, to influence the choice of; to hateful; abominable; very odious; deserving tum-de, intens., and torqueo, to twist.) cause to come to a conclusion or resolution; abhorrence. To distort; to twist; to wrest; to pervert; as, this circumstance determined him to the Thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detest to turn from the original or plain meaning. study of law. - 6. To resolve on; to come able things. Ezek. v. 11. They ... have detorted texts of Scripture. to a fixed resolution and intention in respect Syn. Abominable, odious, execrable, ab Dryden. of. horred. Detortion (de-tor'shon), n. A turning or I determined this with myself. 2 Cor. ii. 1. Detestableness (de-test'a-bl-nes), n. Ex- wresting: perversion. 7. To put an end to; to destroy. Shak.- treme hatefulness. Detour (de-tör'), n. (Fr. détour. ] A turn8. To settle or ascertain, as something un- Detestably (de-test'a-bli), adv. Very hate- ing; a roundabout or circuitous way; a decertain. fully; abominably. viation from the direct or shortest path, The character of the soul is determined by the Detestatet (de-test'āt), v.t. To detest. road, or route. character of its God. 7. Edwards. Which, as a mortal enemy, the doctrine of the gos. This is in fact saying the same thing, only with 9. In logic, to define and limit by adding pel doth detestate and abhor. Udall. more detours and circuinvolutions. Dr. Tucker. DETRACT 16 DEVASTATION not. Detract (dē-trakt'), v. t. (L. detracto (or de Detrimentalness (de-tri-ment'al-nes), n. Deuce-ace (düs'ās), n. A throw of two dice, trecto), to draw back from, to depreciate- Quality of being detrimental. (Rare.) one of which turns up one and the other two. de, and tracto, to draw, from traho, tractum, Detrital (de-trit'al), a. Of or pertaining to Moth. Then, I am sure, you know how much the to draw.] 1. To take away from reputation detritus; composed of detritus, or partaking gross sum of dence-ace amounts to. or merit of, through envy, malice, or other of the nature of detritus; as, detrital matter. Arm. It doth amount to one more than two. motive; to defame; to disparage. - Detrital rocks, the name given to such Moth. Which the base vulgar do call three. Shak. That calumnious critic. rocks as appear to have been derived from Deuced, Deused (düs'ed), a. Devilish; exDetracting what laboriously we do. Drayton. pre-existing solid mineral matter by some cessive; confounded: often used adverbially. Vor I with biting verse, have yet abrading power (Fashionable slang.) Detracted any man. Huloet. Detrite (dě-trit'), a. Worn out. Clarke. It'll be a deuced unpleasant thing if she takes it into her head to let out when those fellows are here. 2. To take away; to withdraw, in a literal Detrition (de-tri'shon), n. [L. detero. See DETRIMENT.) A wearing off; the act of Deucedly, Deusedly (dūs'ed-li), adv. Devil Dickeus. sense. wearing away. Boyle. ishly; confoundedly. Deused, a. See DEUCED. ---- Decry, Depreciate, Detract, Traduce. See pp. of detero, to wear. Deutero-canonical (dü'tė-ro-ka-non"ik-al). under DECRY. detached from solid bodies by attrition; a. (Gr. deuteros, second, and E. canonical.] Detract (de-trakt), v.i. To take away a disintegrated materials of rocks; as, diluvial A term applied to those books of Scripture part; hence, specifically, to take away repudetritus. Detritus may consist of clay, sand, that were admitted into the canon after the tation; to defame: followed by from. De rest gravel, rubbly fragments, or any admixture tract from a lady's character.' Addison. One Detracter (de-trakt'ér), n. One who de of these, according to the nature of the Deuterogamist (dú-tér-og'a-mist), n. who marries a second time. rocks, the disintegrating agent, and the tracts from the reputation of another; a de amount of attrition to which the rocks have Deuterogamy (dū-ter-og'a-mi), n. (Gr. tractor. Detiacters and malicious writers.' been subjected.--2. Met. waste; disinte deuteros, second, and gamos, marriage.) A North. grated material. “Words which have thus for second marriage after the death of the first Detractingly (de-trakt'ing-li), adv. In a husband or wife. ages preserved their exact form in the mass detracting manner. of detritus of which modern languages are You here see that unfortunate divine who has so Detraction (de-trak'shon), n. [L. detractio, long, and it would ill become me to say, successfully composed.' Farrar. a drawing off. See DETRACT.] 1. A with fought against the deuterogamy of the age. Goldsmith drawing; a taking away. * The detraction of De trop (de tro). [Fr., too much, too many.) (Gr. eggs of the said wild-fowl' Bacon.-2. The Not wanted: a term applied to a person Deuteronomy (dū-tér-on'o-mi), n. whose presence is inconvenient; as, I found deuteros, second, and nomos, law.] The act of taking something from the reputation or worth of another, with the view to lessen I was de trop, and retired accordingly. second law or second statement of the law; him in estimation; censure; a lessening of Detrude (ile-tröd'), v.t. pret. & pp. detruded; the name given to the fifth book of the Pen ppr. detruding. [L. detrudo, to push or tateuch. worth, the act of depreciating another from thrust down--de, down, and trudo, to thrust. ) Deuteropathia, Deuteropathy (dūtėr-o. envy or malice. To thrust down; to push down with force; på"thi-a, du-tér-op'a-thi), n. (Gr. deuteros, Black detraction will find faults where they are to force into, or as into, a lower place or second, and pathos, suffering, feeling ) In Massinger. sphere. Detruded down to hell.' Sir J. med. a secondary disease or sympathetic SYN. Depreciation, disparagement, slander, Davies. affection of one part with another, as of calumny, aspersion, defamation, censure. headache from an overloaded stomach. Detractioust (de-trak'shus), a. Containing Philosophers are of opinion that the souls of men may, for their miscarriages, be detruded into the Deuteropathic (dü'tér-o-pa'thik), a. Perdetraction; lessening reputation. bodies of beasts. Locke. taining to deuteropathy. Datractive (dé-traktiv), a. 1. Having the It (envy) leads him into the pery condition of Deuteroscopy (dū-ter-os’ko-pi), n. [Gr. quality or power to take away. A detrac- devils, to be detruded Heaven for his mere pride and deuteros, second, and skopeo,to see. ] 1. Second tive plaister.' Knight.--2. Having the qua malice. Feltham, sight. (Rare.) lity or tendency to lessen the worth or Detruncate (dē-trung kāt), v.t. pret. & pp. I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland estimation. * An envious and detractive detruncated; ppr. detruncating. [L. detrunco, seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to adversary.' Bp. Morton. to lop or cut off, to behead-de, and trunco, witness things unmeet for mortal eyes. Detractivenoss (de-trakt'iv-nes), n. Quality to maim, to shorten by cutting off, truncus, Sir W. Scott of being detractive. (Rare.] cut short. See TRUNK.) To cut off; to lop; 2. The second view, or that which is seen Detractor (de-trakt'er), n. 1. One who takes to shorten by cutting upon a second view; the meaning beyond The the literal sense; second intention Not away or impairs the reputation of another Detruncation (de-trung-kā'shon), n. injuriously; one who attempts to lessen the act of cutting off. attaining the deuteroscopy or second inten tion of the words.' Sir T. Browne. (Rare.) worth or honour of another.--2. In anat. Detrusion (de-trö’zhon), n. [See DETRUDE.) the name given to a muscle, the office of The act of thrusting or driving down. Deuterozooid (dū’tér-o-zo'oid), n. (Gr. deuwhich is to draw the part to which it is Force of detrusion, in mech. the strain to teros, second, zoon, an animal, and eidos, reattached away from some other part.- SYN. which a body, as a beam, is subjected when semblance.) A term given to a zooid proSlanderer, calumniator, defamer, vilifier. it is compressed in a direction perpendicular duced by gemmation from a zooid. Detractory (de-trak’to-ri), a. Depreciatory; to the length of the fibres, the points of Deuthydroguret, Deutohydroguret (dūt. In calumnious; defamatory by denial of desert. support being very near and on opposite hi-drog'ū-ret, dü'to-hi-drog"u-ret), n. The detractory lye takes from a great man the sides of the place at which the force is ap chem, an old term for a compound of two reputation that justly belongs to him. equivalents of hydrogen with one of some other element. In biol. a Deutoplasm (dū’tő-plazm), n. term applied by the younger Van Beneden priv., and tumesco, inceptive from tumeo, to to that portion of the yolk of ova which trecto. See DETRACT.) To refuse. To swell.) Diminution of swelling. Cudworth. furnishes materials for the nourishment of detrect the battle.' Holinshed. Deturbt (de-térb'), v. t. To throw into con the embryo and its accessories (the protoDo not detred; you know the authority is mine. fusion; to throw down with violence. plasm). B. Jonsont. Deutoside, Deutoxyde (dū-toks’īd), n. (Gr. The Detrectation (de-trekt-a'shon), n. As soon may the walls of heaven be scaled and thy deuteros, second, and E. oxide) In chem. throne deturbed as he can be foiled that is defenced act of detrecting or refusing; a declining. with thy power. Bp. Hall. a term formerly employed to denote a comCockeram. pound containing two atoms of oxygen to Detriment(de'tri-ment), n. [L. detrimentum, Deturnt (de-térn'), v.t. To turn away or one or more of a metal; as, the deutoxide of a rubbing off, loss, detriment, from detero, copper; the deutoxide of mercury, &c. and severity of bare precepts deturn many detritum, to rub off or down, to wear--de, Devall (de-val'), v.i. (Probably from 0. Fr. from lending a pleased ear to the wholesome down, and tero, to rub.) 1. Loss; damage; doctrine. Sir K. Digby. defallir, Mod. Fr. défaillir, to fail.) To ininjury; mischief; harm; diminution: a word termit; to cease. (Scotch.) Deturpate (de-tér pat), v.t. [L. deturpo, Devall (de-val'), n. Stop; cessation; interof very general application; thus, we speak of detriment to interest, property, religion, deturpatum, to distigure-de, and turpo, mission; as, it rained ten days without defrom turpis, foul.) To defile. (Rare.] morals, reputation, and to land or build vall. (Scotch.) ings. -2. A charge made upon barristers and Errors, superstitions, heresies, and impieties, which Devaporation (de-va'pėr-ā"shon), n. (De, had deturpated the face of the Church. students for repair of damages on the rooms Jer. Taylor. and L. vaporatio.) The change of vapour they occupy.-3. In her. wane; eclipse. -- | Deturpation (de-terp-ā'shon), n. into water, as in the formation of rain. SYN. Injury, loss, damage, disadvantage, The act Devast t (de-vast), v.t. [L. devasto. See prejudice, hurt, mischief, harm. of defiling or corrupting; a corruption. 'Cor. DEVASTATE.) To lay waste; to devastate. Detriment (de'tri-ment), v.t. To injure; to transcribers.' Jer. Taylor. * The thirty years' war that devasted Germake worse; to hurt. Others might be Deuce (dūs), n. [Fr. deux, two.] Two; a many.' Bolingbroke. detrimented thereby.' Fuller. card or die with two spots; a term used in Devastate (de'vas-tät), v.t. pret. & pp. deDetrimental (cle-tri-mental), a. Injurious; gaming. vaxtated; ppr. devastating. (L. devasto, dehurtful; causing loss or damage. Rather Deuce, Deuse (dūs), n. [Explained by Skeat tastatum, to lay waste--de, intens., and unseemly ... than materially detrimental with great probability as simply L. deus, vasto, to waste; Fr. déraster. See WASTE.] to its strength.' Burke. -SYN. Injurious, God, deus, borrowed from French usage, To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. -SYN. hurtful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, mis- being found as an interjection in early Eng To waste, ravage, desolate, harry, pillage, chievous, pernicious. lish works. L.G. duus, G. daus, are used plunder. Detrimental (de-tri-mental), n. A lover similarly, and may have the same origin. Devastation (de-vas-ta'shon), n. [L. deraswho, owing to his poverty, is ineligible as a Others connect it with Armor. dus, teuz, a tatio, from derasto, devastatum. See DEVAShusband; one who professes to pay attention goblin, teuzi, to disappear.) The devil; per TATE.] 1. The act of devastating, or the to a lady without serious intentions of mar state of being devastated; waste; ravage; dition: used only in exclamatory or interriage. (Genteel slang. ) jectional phrases without the article or havoc; desolation. Perhaps, Mr. Speaker, you don't happen to know with the definite article; as, go to the deuce! Even now the devastation is begun, what a 'detrimeriaal is. He is a person who pays And half the business of destruction done. deuce take you! Goldsmith great attention to a young lady without any serious It was the prettiest prologue as he wrote it; intentions, and thereby discourages the intentions of 2. In law, waste of the goods of a deceased Well, the deuce take ne if I ha'n't forgot it. others. Auberon Herbert, Congreve. person by an executor or administrator.-DEVASTAVIT 17 DEVIL Syn. Desolation, ravage, waste, havoc, de- scriptural truth varies in every age, advanc- generally employed to correct deviation is struction, ruin, overthrow. ing or retrograding in accordance with the by introducing on board ship masses of iron Devastavit (de-vas-tā'vit), n. [L., he has advance or retrogression of the general in- and magnets to exactly neutralize the acwasted.] In laro, the waste or misapplica- telligence, while it may be increased by ap- tion of the ship's magnetism. Compasses tion of the assests of a deceased person com- propriation from the contributions to scrip- are sometimes carried on masts in iron mitted by an executor. tural elucidation made at various times. vessels as a means of removing them from Devet a. Deaf. Chaucer. The other section maintains that Scripture is the disturbing influence of the iron of the Devel, Devle (dev'el, devl), n. A very hard merely the expression of the highest convic- hull. In this osition they serve as stanblow. (Scotch.) tions of man's relations to the infinite and dards of comparison for the binnacle comDeath's gien the lodge an unco devel, his consequent duties, attained at the date pass. Wooden ships are also affected, though Tam Samson's dead. Burns. of its enunciation, and consequently that in a far less degree, by the direction in which Develin (de've-lin), n. The swift (Cypselus neither Scripture norany other embodiment they lie when building. Apus). (Derbyshire and Yorkshire.] of religious belief can adequately express Device (de-vis), n. [Fr. deviser, It. divisare, Develop, Develope (de-vel'up), v. t. (Fr. the conceptions of succeeding ages. (b) In to think, imagine, devise; lit. to arrange dérelopper, 0. Fr. desveloper, from prefix biol. the theory that plants and animals are one's thoughts by separating or distinguishdes, L dis, apart, and, according to Skeat, a capable of advancing, in successive genera- ing between them, from L, divido, divisum, Teut. verb=0.E. wlappe, E. wrap; similarly tions, and through an infinite variety of to divide-di for dis, asunder, and video, envelop.] 1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay stages, from a lower to a higher state of ex- visum, to see.] 1. That which is formed by open; to disclose or make known something istence, and that the more highly organized design or invented; scheme; artificial conconcealed or withheld from notice; to un- forms at present existing are not the result trivance; stratagem; project: sometimes in ravel; as, the general began to develop the of special creations, but are the descendants a good sense, more generally in a bad sense, plan of his operations; to develop a plot. of lower forms. See EVOLUTION. --Syn. as artifices are usually employed for bad These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. Unfolding, unravelling, disentanglement, purposes. 2 In photog. to cause to become visible; to growth, increase, evolution, progress. His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. make use of some of the various processes Developmental (dē-vel'up-ment-al), a. Per Jer. li. 11. employed to bring out the previously in taining to development; formed or charac- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. visible or dimly visible image on the plate. terized by development; as, the develop Job v. 12. See DEVELOPMENT. — 3. In biol. to impart the mental power of a germ. They imagined a mischievous device. Ps. xxi. 11. impulse or power to organized matter, Devenustate (de-vē-nus'tát), v. t. [L. de, 2. Invention; genius; faculty of devising. and venustas, beauty.) To deprive of beauty Full of noble device. which enables it to go through the process Shak.-3. Anything of natural evolution from an embryo state or or grace. fancifully conceived, as a picture, pattern, previous stage to that, or towards that, in piece of embroidery, cut or ornament of a Devergence, Devergency (dē-vérj'ens, dėwhich the original idea is fully exhibited. vérjen-si). n. Same as Divergence. garment, and the like. Devest (de-vest'), v. t. [Fr. dévêtir-de, and This device was sent me by a nun. Shak. 4. In math. to change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by performing certain vêtir, to clothe, L. vestio, from vestis, a 4. An emblem intended to represent a faoperations on it, but without altering its vest, a garment.] 1. To divest (which see). mily, person, action, or quality, with a suitvalue.--SYN. To uncover, unfold, disclose, 2. In law, to alienate, as title or right. able motto: used in painting, sculpture, exhibit, unravel, disentangle. (Almost invariably written Divest, except in and heraldry. It generally consists in a meDevelop (de-vel'up), v.i. 1. To advance the legal sense.) from one stage to another by a process of Devest (de-vest), v.i. In law, to be lost or natural or inherent evolution; as, the mind alienated, as a title or an estate. develops from year to year; specifically, in Devext (dē'veks), a. (L. devexus, sloping, biol. to go through a process of gradual from deveho, devexum, to carry down-de, evolution, passing from the lowest stage down, and veho, to carry.) Bending down. through others of greater maturity towards Bailey. the perfect or finished state; as, the fætus Devex,t Devexityt (dē-veks', dē-veks'i-ti), develops in the womb; the seed develops into n. A bending or sloping down; incurvation the plant. downwards. The world's devex.' May. Because not poets enough to understand * The Heaven's devexity.' Sir J. Davies. That life develops from within. E. B. Browning. Devexa (dē-veks'a), n. pl. A family of ru2. To be formed by natural growth; to be minants, of which the giraffe is the only livevolved; to proceed or come forth naturally ing representative. See DURGA. from some vivifying source; as, the flower Devi (de'vi), n. I, Device of Henry VII. (Westminster Abbey). develops from the bud.-3. To become visible; Deviant, t a. Deviating. Chaucer. 2, Device of Anne Boleyn, to show itself; as, his schemes developed at Deviate (dē'vi-āt), v.i. pret, & pp. deviated; length; specifically, in photog. to become ppr. deviating. (L. devio, deviatum, to turn taphorical similitude between the things revisible, as a picture does when undergoing from the straight road, from devius, out of presenting and represented, as the figure of the process of development. See DEVELOP the way-de, from, and via, way.] 1. To a plough representing agriculture. HenceMENT. turn aside or wander from the common or 5. The motto attached to, or suited for, Developable (dē-vel'up-a-bl) a. right way, course, or line, either in a literal such an emblem. develop or be developed. or figurative sense; to err; to swerve; as, to A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, Developed (dé-vel'upt), pp. 1. Unfolded; deviate from the common track or path, or A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! Longfellow. as colours flying. truth.' Worcester. 6. A spectacle; a show. Masques and Developer (de-vel'up-er), The One who de- There nature deviates, and here wanders will. devices welcome.' Beau. & Fl. -SYN. Convelops or unfolds. Pope, trivance, invention, design, scheme, project, Development (de-vel'up-ment), n. 1. An SYN. To swerve, stray, wander, digress, de- stratagem, emblem, motto. unfolding; the discovering of something part, diverge, differ, vary, err. Deviceful (dé-vis'ful), a. Full of, or persecret or withheld from the knowledge of Deviate (dě'vi-āt), v.t. To cause to deviate. taining to, devices. Deviceful art.' Spenothers; disclosure; full exhibition; the un"To deviate a needle.' J. D. Forbes. ser. (Rare.) ravelling of a plot. -2. In math, a term Deviation (de-vi-ā'shon), n. 1. A wandering To tell the glory of the feast that day, in frequent use to denote the transforma- or turning aside from the right way, course, The goodly service, the deviceful sights, tion of any function into the form of a series; or line.-2. Variation from a common or The bridegroom's state, the bride's most rich array. Spenser also, the process by which any mathematical established rule, from a certain standard, or Devicefully (dē-vīs'ful-li), adv. In a manexpression is changed into another of equiv from analogy alent value or meaning and of more expand ner curiously contrived. (Rare.] Having once surveyed the true and proper natural ed form.-3. The exhibition of new features; alphabet, we may easily discover the deviations from Deyil (de'vil), n. [A. Sax. deofol, from L. diaHolder. bolus, Gr. diabolos, the accuser, from diagradual growth or advancement through progressive changes. A new development of 3. A wandering from the path of duty; want ballo, to accuse.] 1. In theol. an evil spirit imagination, taste, and poetry.' Channing. of conformity to the rules prescribed by God; or being; specifically, the evil one, repre sented in Scripture as the traducer, father Can we conceive of a period of human develop error; sin; obliquity of conduct. of lies, tempter, &c., and referred to under ment at which religion is the worship of the beauti- Worthy persons if inadvertently drawn into a devi. the names Satan, Lucifer, Belial, Apollyon, ful: Dr. Caird. ation, will endeavour instantly to recover their lost Abaddon, the Man of Sin, the Adversary, ground. Richardson, 4. Specifically, the term used to express theor &c. Vexed with a devil. Mat. xxv. 22. ganic changes which take place in animal and 4. In com. the voluntary departure of a Ye are of your father the devil. Jn. viii. 44. vegetable bodies, from their embryo state ship without necessity from the regular and until they arrive at maturity.-5. In photog. usual course of the specific voyage insured. 2. A very wicked person; a traitor. the process following exposure, by which the This discharges the underwriters from their Have I not chosen you twelve ? and one of you is a image on the plate is rendered visible by the responsibility. -Deviation of a falling body, đi?! Jn. vi. io. precipitation of new material on that portion that deviation from the perpendicular line 3. Any great evil. of the sensitive surface which has been acted of descent which falling bodies experience A war of profit mitigates the evil; on by light. The material deposited varies in their descent, in consequence of the rota- But to be tax'd, and beaten, is the devil. Granville. with the nature of the process. In the da- tion of the earth on its axis.- Deviation of guerreotype process it is mercury; in the the compass, the deviation of a ship's com- 4. An expletive expressing wonder, vexanegative processes with the salts of silver, it pass from the true magnetic meridian, tion, &c. is silver combined with organic matter; while caused by the near presence of iron. In The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare; in the chrysotype process it is gold. -- Devel- iron ships the amount of deviation depends But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope. opment theory, (a) in theol. the theory that upon the direction, with regard to the mag- 5. An idol or false god, Lev. xvii. 7; 2 Chr. man's conception of his relations to the in- netic meridian, in which the ship lay when xi. 15.-6. The name popularly given in Tasfinite is progressive but never complete. The being built. It is least when the ship has mania to a marsupial animal (Dasyurus ursupporters of this theory are divided into two been built with her head south. Armour- sinus) of great ferocity. See DASYURUS. -chief sections, one holding that these rela- plated ships should be plated with their 7. A printer's errand-boy. Formerly, the tions are completely embodied in the Holy head in a different direction from that in boy who took the printed sheets from the Scriptures, but that our appreciation of which they lay when built. The mode now tympan of the press. ch, chain; ch, loch; g, go; j, job; Ó, Fr. ton; ng, sing; TH, then; th, thin; w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.-See KEY. That may DEVIL 18 DEVOLVE ease. They do commonly so black and bedaub them. chelytra, of pentamerous Coleoptera, com- 3. + To think of; to guess at. Spenser selves that the workmen do jocosely call them devils. mon in this country. It has the habit of 4. + To plan or scheme for; to purpose to Moxon. turning up the end of its body when alarmed obtain Fools they therefore are, Which fortunes do by vows daise. Spenser. machines; a teazing machine; a machine for cutting up rags and old cloth into flock and jaws and elevated tail, it presents a most 5. To direct; to order. Chaucer. - Sex. To for other purposes. 9. In cookery, a dish, as diabolical appearance, whence the popular invent, contrive, excogitate, plan, scheme, name. a bone with some meat on it, grilled with concoct, mature, bequeath. Cayenne pepper. To consider; to con-To play the devil with, to Devil's Darning-needle (de'vilz därning: Devise (de-vīz'), v.i. ne11), n. ruin; to destroy; to molest or hurt ex The popular name in the United trive; to lay a plan; to form a scheme; to States of various species of the dragon-tly, excogitate. tremely. Shak.-To give the deril his due, to do justice to the devil or a bad man; to so called from their long cylindrical bodies Deutise how you will use him when he comes. Shak. call a man, especially a man of bad charresembling needles. Formerly followed by of. “Let us derise of The old acter, no worse than he is; to give him credit Devil's-dung (de’vilz-dung), n. Spenser, for any good there is in him. To give the pharmaceutical name of asafetida. Devise (de-viz'), n. (See DEVISE, v. t. ) 1. PriDevil's-dust (de'vilz-dust), n. The name devil his due, John Calvin was a great man.' marily, a dividing or division; hence, the Bp. Berkeley.---To go to the devil, to go to given to flock made by the machine called act of bequeathing by will; the act of giving the devil out of old woollen materials; ruin: as, he is going to the devil; his affairs or distributing real estate by a testator, are going to the devil. -Go to the devil! Go shoddy. 2. A will or testament.--3. A share of estate about your business, which, for all I care, Devil's-guts (de'vilz-guts), n. The lesser bequeathed. --4. Contrivance; scheme inmay be to the evil one! -The devil to pay. dodder, or Cuscuta Epithymum, nat, order vented; device; hence, direction, in accordConvolvulaceae, a plant which is parasitic This phrase has its origin in a nautical ance with plan devised. "We wol ben reuled on furze, heath, thyme, and other plants. phrase, the devil to pay, and no pitch hot,' at his derise.' Chaucer. The person or the devil being a certain seam so called from Devilship (de'vil-ship), n. Devisee (de-vi-zē), n. The person to whom character of a devil: a ludicrous title of its awkwardness to caulk. devise is made; one to whom real estate is Devil de'vil), v.t. pret. & pp. derilled; ppr. address, on type of lordship, to the devil. bequeathed. devilling. 1. To make devilish, or like a devil; Cowley. Deviser (de-vīz'er), n. One who contrives or 1. A name 2. To pepper or season excessively and broil: Devil's Own (de' vilz ön), n. invents; a contriver; an inventor. a term used in cookery. 'A devilled leg given by General Picton to the 88th Regi Devisor (de-viz'er), n. One who gives by of turkey.' W. Irving. 3. To cut up, cloth ment from their bravery in the field and will; one who bequeaths lands or tenements. or rags, by an instrument called a devil. (L. derito, Devil-bird (de'vil-bérd), n. The name someously or sarcastically applied to the volun. deritatum, to avoid-de, and vito, to shun, times applied to the members of the genus teer corps of the Inus of Court from the avoid. ] Avoidable. Bailey. Dicrurus, natives of India. members being lawyers. Devitalize (de-vi’tal-iz), c.t. To deprive of Devilet (de' vil-et), n. A little devil; a Diabolical act; vitality; to take away life from. See extract devilkin. (Rare.] mischief; devilry. (Low.) under DEVIVE. Devil - fish (de' vil- fish), n. The Devitationt (de-vit-a'shon), n. [L. deritatio. name of a large species of ray, the Lophius worship paid to the devil, an evil spirit, a See DEVITABLE] An escaping. Bailey. piscatorius, otherwise called the American malignant deity, or the personified evil prin. Devitrification (de-vi'tri.fi-kā"shon), n. (Preangler, fishing-frog, sea-devil, toad-fish, &c. ciple in nature, by many of the primitive fix de, priv., and ritrification.] The act of See ANGLER. tribes of Asia, Africa, and America, under depriving glass of its transparency and conDeviling† (de’vil-ing), n. A young devil. the assumption that the good deity does not verting it into a gray opaque substance. trouble himself about the world, or that the Devitrify (de-vi'tri-1i), v.t. pret. & pp. derit. Beau, & FI. Devilish (de'vil-ish), a. 1. Partaking of the powers of evil are as mighty as the powers rified; ppr. deritrifying. To deprive of qualities of the devil; pertaining to the of good, and have in consequence to be lustre and transparency; to deprive of the bribed and reconciled. devil; diabolical; very evil and mischievous; character or appearance of glass. malicious; as, a devilish scheme. Devilish Devil-worshipper (de’vil-wurship-per), n. wickedness.' Sir P. Sidney.-2. Excessive; One who worships a devil, a malignant deity, Devive (dē-viv'), r.t. (L. de, priv., and rirus, living.) To deprive of life; to render inert enormous: in a vulgar and ludicrous sense. or evil spirit. or unconscious. "A devilish cheat. Chaucer. Prof. Owen has remarked that 'there are organisms lical, infernal, hellish, satanic, wicked, maliDevious (dē'vi-us), a. [L. derius--de, and which we can devitalize and revitalize, certe and via, way. ] 1. Out of the common way or cious. revive many tiines.' Beale. track; as, a devious course. Devilishly(devil-ish-li), adv. 1. In a manner * The devious Devocation (de-vo-ka'shon), n. (L. devo. Rowe. suiting the devil; diabolically; wickedly. paths where wanton fancy leads, catio, from deroco, derocatum, to call down, 2. Greatly; excessively: in a vulgar sense. 2. Following circuitous or winding paths; off, or away-de, down, and roco, to call.) A Devilishness (de'vil-ish-nes), n. The qualirambling. calling away; seduction. “Flattering devoties of the devil. The devilishness of their To bless the wildly drvious morning walk. Thomson cations.' Halliwell. temper.' Edwards. 3. Erring; going astray from rectitude or the Devoid (de-void'), a. [De and roid. See Devilism +(de'vil-izm), n. The state of devils; divine precepts. VOID.) 1.1 Void; empty; vacant: applied to diabolical wickedness. "Not heresy, but Feil here and there through the branches a tremu place. devilism, Bp. Hall. lous gleam of the moonlight, I awoke, and found her place devoid, Spenser, Devilize t (de’vil-iz), v.t. To place among Like the sweet thoughts of love on a darkened and 2. Destitute; not possessing; as, devoid of devils. devious spirit. Long fellow. understanding He that would deify a saint should wrong him as SYN. Circuitous, roundabout, erratic, rov- Her life was beast-like and devoid of pity. Shak. much as he that would devilise him. Bp. Hall. Devoir (de - vwar'), n. (Fr., from L. debeo, Devilkin (de'vil-kin), n. A little devil. Deviously (dē'vi-us-li), adv. In a devious debere, to owe.) Service or duty; hence, an manner. Devilled (de'vild), p. and a. Peppered exces act of civility or respect; respectful notice Departure sively; as, devilled chicken; devilled kidneys. Deviousness (dē’vi-us-nes), n. Devil-may-care (de'vil-má-kár), a. Rollickfrom a regular course; wandering. due to another; as, we paid our devoirs to ing; reckless. [Slang.) Devirginate (dē-ver'jin-át), v. t. pret. & pp. the queen, or to the ladies. Madam, if any service or devoir devirginated; ppr. devirginating. (L.L. deHe was a mighty free-and-easy, roving, devil-may. Of a poor errant knight may right your wrongs, care sort of person, was my uncle, gentlemen. Dickens. virgino, devirginatum, to deflower.] To de- Command it. Bean. & FI. Devilment (de'vil-ment), 12. Trickery; roguprive of virginity; to deflour. Sandy8. Devolutet (de-vo-lūt'), v.t. To devolve. Devirginatet (de-vėr'jin-át), p. and a. Deishness; devilry; prank; sport: often used prived of virginity. in a ludicrous sense without necessarily im Fair Hero, left devir. Government was devoluted and brought into the priests' hands. Foxe. ginate.' Chapman & Marlowe. plying malice; as, he did it out of mere De- Devolution (de-vo-lū'shon), n. (L.L. devodevilment. privation of virginity. Feltham. lutio, from L. derolro, derolutum, to roll This is our ward, our pretty Rose-brought her up Devisable (de-viz'a-bl), a. (See the verb.) down. See DEVOLVE] 1. The act of rollto town to see all the devilments and things. Morton. 1. That may be bequeathed or given by ing down. "The derolution of earth upon Devilry (de’vil-ri), n. Devilment; extremne will.-2. That can be invented or contrived. the valleys.' Woodward. - 2. The act of wickedness; wicked mischief. ‘Stark de- Devise (dē-viz'), v. t. pret. & pp. derised; ppr. devolving, transferring, or handing over; vilry.' Moore. removal from one person to another; a devising. (Fr. deviser, to talk or interchange But better this honest simplicity than the devilries thoughts; It. divisare, to think, divide, or passing or falling upon a successor. of the Faust of Goethe. Hazlitt. There never was any dezolutien to rulers by the Devil's Advocate (devilz ad'vô-bit), m. In 1. To invent; to contrive; to form in the mind people of the power to govern them, Brougham, the R. Cath. Ch. a person appointed to raise by new combinations of ideas, new applica 3. In Scots law, a term sometimes applied to doubts against the claims of a candidate for tions of principles, or new arrangement of the reference made by two or more arbiters canonization. See ADVOCATUS DIABOLI. parts; to strike out by thought; to plan; to who differ in opinion to an oversman or Devil's Bit (de'vilz bit), n. The common scheme; to project; to excogitate; to com umpire to determine the difference; also, name of a species of scabious (Scabiosa pose; as, to devise an engine or machine; to the falling of a purchase made under articles succisa), nat. order Dipsaceæ. It has heads devise a new mode of writing; to devise a of roup to the next highest offerer, on the of blue flowers nearly globular, and a fleshy plan of defence; to devise arguments. 'De- failure of the highest bidder to find caution root, which is as it were cut or bitten off vising their own daughter's death.' Tenny. for payment of the price within the time abruptly. It flowers from June to October, 80n. limited by the articles. and is common in meadows and pastures. To devise curious works, to work in gold and silver, Devolve (de-volv'), v. t. pret. & pp. derolved; The devil is said to have bit its root out of Ex. XXXV. 32. ppr. devolving. (L. devolro-de, and volvo, envy because it possessed so many virtues For thirty pence he (Judas) did my death devise, to roll.] 1. To roll down. and was so beneficial to mankind--whence Who at three hundred did the ointment prize. Every headlong stream the name. G. Herbert. Devolves his winding waters to the main. A kenside. and to be sufficiently astringent for tanning. land or other real estate. 2. To move from one person to another; to Devil's Coach-horse (de'vilz köch'hors), n. Was it ever intended that the king could empower deliver over, or from, one possessor to a The popular name of a large species of beetle successor. his subjects to devise their freeholds or to levy fines (Ocypus olens), belonging to the tribe Bra- of their entailed lands? Hallam. 1 Upon the Duke of Ormond the king had wholly DEVOLVE 19 DEW-CLAW Luke ii, 25. devpired the care and disposition of all affairs in Ire- solemn attention to the Supreme Being in We must be constant and devout in the worship of Lund. Sir IV. Temple. God. worship; a yielding of the heart and affec Rogers. Devolve (dē- volv'), v.i. To roll down; tions to God, with reverence, faith, and The same man was just and devout. hence, to pass from one to another; to fall piety, in religious duties, particularly in Devout men carried Stephen to his burial by succession from one possessor to his Acts viii. 2. prayer and meditation; devoutness. successor. Streans that had devolved into 2. Expressing devotion or piety. There was still a sadness of heart upon her, and a With uplifted hands, and cyes devout, Milton. l'pon ministers, therefore, devolved the entire burden of public affairs, Sir Erskine May. 3. Something consecrated; an object of de- 3. Sincere; solemn; earnest; as, you have His estate is said to have been fifteen hundred a votion. my devout wishes for your safety. --SYN. year, which by his death detulved to Lord Somer. As I passed by and beheld your devotions, Holy, pure, religious, prayerful, earnest, vile of Scotland. Johnson Acts xvii. 23. pious, godly, saintly. Devolvement (de-volv'ment), n. The act of Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Devoutt (dē-vout'), n. A devotee. She'don. devolving Tumbled together into one rude chaos. Beau, & FI. Devoutful (de-vout'ful), a. 1. Full of or Devonian (de-vo'ni-an), a. Of or pertain. 4. Prayer to the Supreme Being; perform- characterized by devoutness; devout. -ing to Devonshire in England; specifically, ance of religious duties: now generally 2. Sacred. in jeol. a term applied by Murchison to a used in the plural; as, a Christian will be To take her from austerer check of parents, great portion of the palæozoic strata of regular in his devotions. To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston. North and South Devon, and used by him An aged, holy man, Spenser That day and night said his devotion. as synonymous with old red sandstone, Devoutless (dē-vout les), a. Destitute of devotion. for which term he substituted it, because 5. An act of reverence, respect, or ceremony. Devoutlessness (de-vout'les-nes), n. Want the strata of that age in Devonshire-litho. Whither away so fast? of devotion. Bp. of Chichester. logically very unlike the old red sandstone Upon the like devotion as yourselves, of Scotland, Hereford, and the South Welsh To gratulate the gentle princes there. Shak. Devoutly (dē-vout'li), adv. 1. With solemn attention and reverence to God; with ardent counties-contain a much more copious and 6. Ardent love or affection; manifestation devotion. rich fossil fauna, and were shown to occupy of such love; attachment manifested by Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly. the same intermediate position between the constant attention; as, the duke was distin Shak Silurian and carboniferous rocks.' Later guished by his devotion to the king, and to 2. Piously; religiously; with pious thoughts. geologists, however, do not use the terms the interest of the nation. One of the wise men having a while attentively and as identical, the conditions under which the She would often, when they met, devoutly viewed and contemplated this pillar and strata were deposited being very different. Sigh fully, or all silent gaze upon him cross, fell down upon his face. Bacon. Devonport (de'von-port), n. A sort of small, With such a fixt dez'otion, that the old man, 3. Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly. 'A congenerally ornamental, writing-table, fitted up with drawers and other conveniences. 7. Earnestness; ardour; eagerness. summation devoutly to be wished.' Shak. Devoutness (dė-vout'nes), n. The quality Devonshire Colic (de'von-shir kol’ik), n. He seeks their hate with greater devotion than they or state of being devout. A species of colic, occasioned by the intro- can render it him. Shak. Devovet (dē-vov), v. t. (L. devoveo. See DEduction of lead into the system, and so 8. An act manifesting devotedness or affec- VOTE.) To vow to; to dedicate or destine; named from its frequent occurrence among tion; a gift. to devote; to doom to destruction; to desthe workers in the lead mines of Devonshire. You ask devotion like a bashful beggar. Massinger. tine for a sacrifice. 9. + Disposal; power of disposing of; state of 'Twas his own son, whom God and mankind loved, His own victorious son whom he devoved. Cowley. The act of devouring Holinshed. (Rare.) Devotary (de-vjtja-ri), . A votary. 'A Arundel Castle would keep that rich corner of the Devow (dē-vou'), v.t. To give up; to devote. country at his majesty's devotion, Clarendon. more famous and frequent pilgrimage of To the inquiry decotaries' Gregory. --- Religion, Devotion, Piety, Sanctity. See And search of which, your mathematical head RELIGION.-SYN. Consecration, devoutness, Hath so devowed itsell. Devote (de-vot'), v.1. pret. & pp. devoted; B. Jonson. ppr. deroting. (L. devoreo, devotum, to vow religiousness, piety, attachment, affection, Devowt (dē-vou'), v.t. To disavow; to dis claim. anything to a deity, to devote-de, intens., devotedness, ardour, eagerness, earnestness. and roveo, to vow; Fr. dévouer. See Vow.j Devotional (dē-võ'shon-al), a. Pertaining There too the armies angelic devow'd 1 To appropriate by vow; to set apart or to devotion; used in devotion; suited to Their former rage, and au to mercy bow'd. G. Fletcher. dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate. devotion; as, a devotional posture; devo tional exercises; a devotional frame of mind. Devoyret(de-voir), n. Devoir; duty. Spenser. No decoted thing that a man shall devote to the Lord, shall be sold or redeeined. Every devoted Devotionalist, Devotionist (de-vo'shon-al- Dew (dū), n. [A. Sax. deầw. Cog. D. dauw, thing is most holy to the Lord. Dan. dug, G. thau-dew.) 1. The aqueous Lev. xxvii. 28. ist, de-võ'shon-ist), n. A person given to 2. To give up wholly; to direct the attention devotion; or one superstitiously or formally vapour or moisture which is deposited by devout. condensation, especially during the night, wholly or chiefly; to attach; as, to devote from the atmosphere, in the form of minute one's self to science; to derote ourselves to It is but to give a religious turn to his natural softness, and you have the complete image of a French globules, on the surfaces of bodies when our friends, or to their interest or pleasure. devotionalist. Coventry. they have become colder than the surroundThey devoted themselves unto all wickedness. Grew. There are certain zealous devotionists, which ab. ing atmosphere. Dew appears chiefly on hor all set forms and fixed hours of invocation. 3. To give up; to resign; as, the city was de calm and clear nights. It is never seen on BA. Hall. roted to the flames. nights both cloudy and windy. It is much Devotionally (dě-võ'shon-al-li), adv. In a more copiously deposited on horizontal than Aliens were devoted to their rapine and despight. devotional manner; towards devotion; as, on inclined surfaces. In winter dew becomes Dr. H. Store. 4. To doom; to consign over; as, to derote devotionally inclined. hoar-frost. Devotiousness t (le-vo’shus-nes), . Deone to destruction.-5. | Toexecrate; to doom The dews of the evening most carefully shun, voutness; piety. Hammond. to evil. Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Devotot (de- võ'to), n. (It.) A devotee. Chesterfield Let her, like me, of every joy forlorn, J. Spencer. I thought for thee, I thought for all Tezute the hour when such a wretch was born. Rowe. Devotort (dē-vö'tėr), n. One who reverences My gamesome imps that round me grew, SEX. To addict, apply, dedicate, consecrate, or worships. Beau. & Fl. The dea's of blessing heaviest fall Where care falls too. resign, destine, doom, consign. Jean Ingelow. Devour (dé-vour),v.t. [L. deroro--de, intens., Devote (de-vot'), a. Devoted; devout. (Rare.) and voro, to eat greedily.] 1. To eat up; to 2. Anything which falls lightly, or so as to refresh. Koow, then, O child! dezote to fates severe, eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a The golden dew of sleep.' Shak. The good shall hate thy name, the wise shall fear. beast of prey or as a hungry man. That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed; Crabbe. A hand as fruitful as the land that seeds us; Devote (de-vöt), n. A devotee. Sandys. We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. His dews fall everywhere. Shak. Gen. xxxvii. 33. Devoted (de võt'ed), p. and a. 1. Appropriated by vow; solemnly set apart or dedi2. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and 3. Used as an emblem of freshness, because cated; consecrated; addicted; given up; violence; to annihilate; to waste. it is visible only in the early morning, when all is suggestive of freshness and youth. doomed; consigned.-2. Ardent; zealous; As soon as this thy son had come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots. The most devoted strongly attached. Fair-haired, azure-eyed, with delicate Saxon com plexion, champion.' Macaulay. 3. To enjoy with avidity. Having the dew of his youth, and the beauty thereof. Devotedness (dė-võt'ed-nes), n. The state Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Longfellow. of being devoted or given; addictedness; as, Devour hero'er and o'er with vast delight. Dryden. Dew (dū), v.t. To wet with dew; to moisten; derotedness to religion. 'A devotedness unto Devour (de-vour'), v.i. To act as a devourer; to bedew. * Dewed with showery drops.' God.' Grew. to consume. (Rare.) Tennyson. Devotee (de-vo-tē), n. (Fr. dévot. See DE- A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a Dewt (du), a. Due. "With reverence dew.' VOTE, r.] One who is wholly devoted or flame burneth. Joel ii. 3. Spenser. occupied; a votary; particularly, one given Devourable (de-vour'a-bl), a. Capable of or Dewt (dū), n. Duty. Spenser. wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously fit for being devoured. Dewan (dū-an), n. In the East Indies, the given to religious duties and ceremonies; a Devourer (dē-vour'er), n. One who devours; head officer of finance and revenue. bigot. he who or that which eats, consumes, or Dewanny (dú-an'ni), n. (Hind.) An Indian A devotee is one of those who disparage religion by destroys; he that preys on. court for trying revenue and other civil their indiscreet and unreasonable introduction of the Devouring (de-vour'ing), p. and a. 1. Eating causes. mention of virtue on all occasions. Spectator. greedily: consuming; wasting; destroying; Dewberry (dūbe-ri), n. The popular name Devotement (dé-võt'ment), n. The act of annihilating.-2. In her. same as Vorant of the Rubus cæsius, a bramble which grows devoting or appropriating by a vow; the (which see) in woods, thickets, hedges, and the borders state of being devoted. Devouringly (de-vour'ing-li), adv. In a de- of fields. The fruit is black, with a bluish Her (Iphigenia's) devotement was the demand of vouring manner. bloom, and of an agreeable acid taste, and Apoilo. Bp. Hurd. Devout (de-vout'), a. (Fr, dévot, devout, and bears the same name. Devoter (de-võt'ér), n. One that devotes; devoué, devoted; L. devotus. See DEVOTE, Dew-claw (dū’kla), n. One of the bones or also, a worshipper. v.t.) 1. Yielding a solemn and reverential little nails behind a deer's foot; the upperDevotion (lė-võ'shon), n. 1. The state of devotion to God in religious exercises, par- most claw in a dog's foot, smaller than the being dedicated, consecrated, or solemnly ticularly in prayer; pious; devoted to reli- rest, and not touching the ground. • Some set apart for a particular purpose. ---2. A gion; religious. cut off the dew-claws. Stonehenge. Luke xv. 30. |