Demise – Deposing

Demise

DEMISE, noun S as z. [Latin Literally, a laying down, or sending from; a removing.]

1. In England, a laying down or removal, applied to the crown or royal authority. The demise of the crown, is a transfer of the crown, royal authority or kingdom to a successor. Thus when Edward fourth was driven from his throne for a few months by the house of Lancaster, this temporary transfer of his dignity was called a demise Hence the natural death of a king or queen came to be denominated a demise as by that event, the crown is transferred to a successor.

2. A conveyance or transfer of an estate, by lease or will.

DEMISE and redemise, a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it.

DEMISE, verb transitive S as z.

1. To transfer or convey; to lease.

2. To bequeath; to grant by will.

Demission

DEMISSION, noun A lowering; degradation; depression.

Demissive

DEMISSIVE or DEMISS, adjective Humble.

Demissly

DEMISSLY, adverb In a humble manner.

Demit

DEMIT, verb transitive To let fall; to depress; to submit.

Demiurge

DEMIURGE, noun [Gr., a public servant, and work.] In the mythology of Eastern Philosophers, an eon employed in the creation of the world; a subordinate workman.

Demiurgic

DEMIURGIC, adjective Pertaining to a demiurge, or to creative power.

Democracy

DEMOCRACY, noun [Gr. People, and to possess, to govern.] Government by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation. Such was the government of Athens.

Democrat

DEMOCRAT, noun One who adheres to a government by the people, or favors the extension of the right of suffrage to all classes of men.

Democratic

DEMOCRATIC,

DEMOCRATICAL, adjective Popular; pertaining to democracy or government by the people; as a democratical form of government.

Democratical

DEMOCRATICAL, a. Popular; pertaining to democracy or government by the people; as a democratical form of government.

Democratically

DEMOCRATICALLY, adverb In a democratical manner.

Demolish

DEMOLISH, verb transitive [Latin To build.] To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy, as a heap or structure; to separate any collected mass, or the connected parts of a thing; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a mound; to demolish a wall or fortification.

Demolished

DEMOLISHED, participle passive Pulled down; thrown down; razed; destroyed, as a fabric or structure.

Demolisher

DEMOLISHER, noun One who pulls or throws down; one who destroys or lays waste; as a demolisher of towns.

Demolishing

DEMOLISHING, participle present tense Pulling or throwing down; destroying.

Demolishment

DEMOLISHMENT, noun Ruin; overthrow.

Demolition

DEMOLITION, noun The act of overthrowing, pulling down or destroying a pile or structure; ruin; destruction; as the demolition of a house, or of military works.

Demon

DEMON, noun A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and the celestial deities of the Pagans. The ancients believed that there were good and evil demons, which had influence over the minds of men, and that these beings carried on an intercourse between men and gods, conveying the addresses of men to the gods, and divine benefits to men. Hence demons became the objects of worship. It was supposed also that human spirits, after their departure from the body, became demons, and that the souls of virtuous men, if highly purified, were exalted from demons into gods. The demons of the New Testament were supposed to be spiritual beings which vexed and tormented men. And in general , the word, in modern use, signifies an evil spirit or genius, which influences the conduct or directs the fortunes of mankind.

Demoness

DEMONESS, noun A female demon.

Demoniac

DEMONIAC or DEMONIACAL or DEMONIAN, adjective

1. Pertaining to demons or evil spirits.

2. Influenced by demons; produced by demons or evil spirits.

DEMONIAC phrensy.

DEMONIAC, noun A human being possessed by a demon; one whose volition and other mental faculties are overpowered, restrained, or disturbed, in their regular operation, by an evil spirit, or by a created spiritual being of superior power.

Demoniacs

DEMONIACS, noun In church history, a branch of the Anabaptists, whose distinguishing tenet is, that at the end of the world the devil will be saved.

Demonocracy

DEMONOCRACY, noun [Gr. Demon and to hold.] The power or government of demons.

Demonolatry

DEMONOLATRY, noun [Gr. Demon and worship.] The worship of demons, or of evil spirits.

Demonology

DEMONOLOGY, noun [Gr. Demon and discourse.] A discourse on demons; a treatise on evil spirits. So King James entitled his book concerning witches.

Demonomist

DEMONOMIST, noun [Gr. Demon and law.] One that lives in subjection to the devil, or to evil spirits.

Demonomy

DEMONOMY, noun The dominion of demons, or of evil spirits.

Demonship

DEMONSHIP, noun The state of a demon.

Demonstrable

DEMONSTRABLE, adjective That may be demonstrated; that may be proved beyond doubt or contradiction; capable of being shown by certain evidence, or by evidence that admits of no doubt; as, the principles of geometry are demonstrable

Demonstrableness

DEMONSTRABLENESS, noun The quality of being demonstrable.

Demonstrably

DEMONSTRABLY, adverb In a manner to preclude doubt; beyond the possibility of contradiction.

Demonstrate

DEMONSTRATE, verb transitive [Latin To show.]

1. To show or prove to be certain; to prove beyond the possibility of doubt; to prove in such a manner as to reduce the contrary position to evident absurdity. We demonstrate a problem in geometry, or a proposition in ethics, by showing that the contrary is absurd or impossible.

2. In anatomy, to exhibit the parts when disected.

Demonstrated

DEMONSTRATED, participle passive Proved beyond the possibility of doubt; rendered certain to the mind.

Demonstrating

DEMONSTRATING, participle present tense Proving to be certain; evincing beyond the possibility of doubt.

Demonstration

DEMONSTRATION, noun

1. The act of demonstrating, or of exhibiting certain proof.

2. The highest degree of evidence; certain proof exhibited, or such proof as establishes a fact or proposition beyond a possibility of doubt, or as shows the contrary position to be absurd or impossible.

3. Indubitable evidence of the senses, or of reason; evidence which satisfies the mind of the certainty of a fact or proposition. Thus we hold that the works of nature exhibit demonstration of the existence of a God.

4. In logic, a series of syllogisms, all whose premises are either definitions, self-evident truths, or propositions already established.

5. Show; exhibition.

6. In anatomy, the exhibition of parts dissected.

Demonstrative

DEMONSTRATIVE, adjective

1. Showing or proving by certain evidence; having the power of demonstration; invincibly conclusive; as a demonstrative argument, or demonstrative reasoning.

2. Having the power of showing with clearness and certainty; as a demonstrative figure in painting.

Demonstratively

DEMONSTRATIVELY, adverb With certain evidence; with proof which cannot be questioned; certainly; clearly; convincingly.

Demonstrator

DEMONSTRATOR, noun

1. One who demonstrates; one who proves any thing with certainty, or with indubitable evidence.

2. In anatomy, one who exhibits the parts when dissected.

Demonstratory

DEMONSTRATORY, adjective Tending to demonstrate; having a tendency to prove beyond a possibility of doubt.

Demoralization

DEMORALIZATION, noun The act of subverting or corrupting morals; destruction of moral principles.

Demoralize

DEMORALIZE, verb transitive To corrupt or undermine the morals of ; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt in morals.

The effect would be to demoralize mankind.

The native vigor of the soul must wholly disappear, under the steady influence and the demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime.

Demoralized

DEMORALIZED, participle passive Corrupted in morals.

Demoralizing

DEMORALIZING, participle present tense

1. Corrupting or destroying morals or moral principles.

2. adjective Tending to destroy morals or moral principles.

Demulce

DEMULCE, verb transitive Demuls. To sooth; to soften or pacify.

Demulcent

DEMULCENT, adjective [Latin To stroke, to soften; allied perhaps to mollis, mellow.] Softening; mollifying; lenient; as, oil is demulcent

DEMULCENT, noun Any medicine which lessens acrimony, or the effects of stimulus on the solids; that which softens or mollifies; as gums, roots of marsh-mallows, and other mucilaginous substances.

Demur

DEMUR, verb intransitive [Latin To stay or delay.]

1. To stop; to pause; to hesitate; to suspend proceeding; to delay determination or conclusion.

On receiving this information, the minister demurred, till he could obtain further instructions.

2. In law, to stop at any point in the pleadings, and rest or abide on that point in law for a decision of the cause. Thus, the defendant may demur to the plaintiffs declaration, alledging it to be insufficient in law; the plaintiff may demur to the defendants plea, for a like reason.

DEMUR, verb transitive To doubt of.

DEMUR, noun Stop; pause; hesitation as to the propriety of proceeding; suspense of proceeding or decision.

All my demurs but double his attacks.

Demure

DEMURE, adjective Sober; grave; modest; downcast; as a demure countenance; a demure abasing of the eye.

DEMURE, verb intransitive To look with a grave countenance.

Demurely

DEMURELY, adverb With grave, solemn countenance; with a fixed look; with a solemn gravity.

Esops damsel sat demurely at the boards end.

Demureness

DEMURENESS, noun Gravity of countenance; soberness; a modest look.

Demurrage

DEMURRAGE, noun An allowance made to the master of a trading vessel, for delay or detention in port beyond the appointed time of departure. This expense is paid by the merchant who causes the detention.

Demurrer

DEMURRER, noun

1. One who demure.

2. In law, a stop at some point in the pleadings, and a resting of the decision of the cause on that point; an issue on matter of law. A demurrer confesses the fact or facts to be true, but denies the sufficiency of the facts in point of law to support the claim or defense. A demurrer may be tendered to the declaration, to the plea, to the replication, to the rejoinder, etc.

Demurring

DEMURRING, participle present tense Stopping; pausing; suspending proceedings or decision; resting or abiding on a point in law.

Demy

DEMY,

1. A particular size of paper; a kind of paper of small size.

2. A half fellow at Magdalen college, Oxford.

Den

DEN, noun

1. A cave or hollow place in the earth; usually applied to a cave, pit, or subterraneous recess, used for concealment, shelter, protection or security; as a lions den; a den of robbers or thieves.

The beasts go into dens. The children of Israel made themselves dens. Job 37:8. Judges 6:2.

2. As a termination, in names of places, it denotes the place to be in a valley or near a wood.

DEN, verb intransitive To dwell as in a den

Denarcotize

DENARCOTIZE, verb transitive [de and narcotic.] To deprive of the narcotic principle or quality; as, to denarcotize opium.

Denary

DENARY, adjective Containing ten.

DENARY, noun The number ten.

Denationalize

DENATIONALIZE, verb transitive To divest of national character or rights, by transferrence to the service of another nation. A ship built and registered in the United States, is denationalized by being employed in the service of another nation and bearing its flag.

Denay

DENAY, noun Denial; refusal.

DENAY, verb transitive To deny.

Dendrachate

DENDRACHATE, noun [Gr. A tree, and agate.] Arborescent agate; agate containing the figures of shrubs or parts of plants.

Dendrite

DENDRITE, noun [Gr. A tree.] A stone or mineral on or in which are the figures of shrubs or trees; an arborescent mineral.

Dendritic

DENDRITIC,

DENDRITICAL, adjective Containing the figures of shrubs or trees.

Dendritical

DENDRITICAL, a. Containing the figures of shrubs or trees.

Dendroid

DENDROID, adjective [Gr. A tree, and form.] Resembling a shrub.

Dendroit

DENDROIT, noun A fossil which has some resemblance in form to the branch of a tree.

Dendrolite

DENDROLITE, noun [Gr. A tree and a stone.] A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

Dendrology

DENDROLOGY, noun [Gr. A tree and a discourse.] A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.

Dendrometer

DENDROMETER, noun [Gr. Tree and to measure.] An instrument to measure the highth and diameter of trees.

Denegate

DENEGATE, verb transitive To deny.

Denegation

DENEGATION, noun Denial.

Deniable

DENIABLE, adjective That may be denied, or contradicted.

Denial

DENIAL, noun

1. An affirmation to the contrary; an assertion that a declaration or fact stated is not true; negation; contradiction. It is often expressed by no or not, simply.

2. Refusal to grant; the negation of a request or petition; the contrary to grant, allowance or concession; as, his request or application met with a direct denial

3. A rejection, or refusing to acknowledge; a disowning; as a denial of God: or a refusing to receive or embrace; as a denial of the faith or the truth.

4. A denial of ones self, is a declining of some gratification; restraint of ones appetites or propensities.

Denier

DENIER, noun One who denies, or contradicts; one who refuses or rejects; a disowner; one who does not own, avow or acknowledge; as a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.

DENIER, noun A small denomination of French money, the twelfth part of a sol; a small copper coin.

Denigrate

DENIGRATE, verb transitive [Latin Black.] To blacken; to make black.

Denigration

DENIGRATION, noun The act of making black; a blackening.

Denitration

DENITRATION, noun A disengaging of nitric acid.

Denization

DENIZATION, noun The act of making one a denizen, subject or citizen. This in England is done by the kings letters patent.

Denizen

DENIZEN, noun

1. In England, an alien who is made a subject by the kings letters patent, holding a middle state between an alien and a natural born subject. He may take land by purchase or devise, which an alien cannot; but he cannot take by inheritance.

2. A stranger admitted to residence and certain rights in a foreign country.

Ye gods,

Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes.

3. A citizen.

DENIZEN, verb transitive To make a denizen; to admit to residence with certain rights and privileges; to infranchise.

Denomiinable

DENOMIINABLE, adjective That may be denominated, or named.

Denominate

DENOMINATE, verb transitive [Latin To name.] To name; to give a name or epithet to; as, a race of intelligent beings denominated man. Actions are denominated virtuous, or vicious, according to their character.

Denominated

DENOMINATED, participle passive Named; called.

Denominating

DENOMINATING, participle present tense Naming.

Denomination

DENOMINATION, noun

1. The act of naming.

2. A name or appellation; a vocal sound, customarily used to express a thing or a quality, in discourse; as, all man fall under the denomination of sinners; actions fall under the denomination of good or bad.

3. A class, society or collection of individuals, called by the same name; as a denomination of christians.

Denominative

DENOMINATIVE, adjective That gives a name; that confers a distinct appellation.

Denominator

DENOMINATOR, noun

1. He that gives a name.

2. In arithmetic, that number placed below the line in vulgar fractions, which shows into how many parts the integer is divided. Thus in 3/5, 5 is the denominator showing that the integer is divided into five parts; and the numerator 3 shows how many parts are taken, that is, three fifths.

Denotable

DENOTABLE, adjective That may be denoted or marked.

Denotation

DENOTATION, noun The act of denoting.

Denotative

DENOTATIVE, adjective Having power to denote.

Denote

DENOTE, verb transitive [Latin To note or mark.]

1. To mark; to signify by a visible sign; to indicate; to express. The character X denotes multiplication.

2. To show; to betoken; to indicate; as, a quick pulse denotes fever.

Denoted

DENOTED, participle passive Marked; signified, indicated.

Denotement

DENOTEMENT, noun Sign; indication.

Denoting

DENOTING, participle present tense Marking; expressing; indicating.

Denouement

DENOUEMENT, noun The unraveling or discovery of a plot.

Denounce

DENOUNCE, verb transitive [Latin To tell, or declare.]

1. To declare solemnly; to proclaim in a threatening manner; to announce or declare, as a threat.

I denounce to you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deuteronomy 30:18.

So we say, to denounce war; to denounce wrath.

2. To threaten by some outward sign, or expression.

His look denounced revenge.

3. To inform against; to accuse; as, to denounce one for neglect of duty.

Denounced

DENOUNCED, participle passive

1. Threatened by open declaration; as, punishment is denounced against the ungodly.

2. Accused; proclaimed; as, he was denounced as an enemy.

Denouncement

DENOUNCEMENT, noun The declaration of a menace, or of evil; denunciation.

Denouncer

DENOUNCER, noun One who denounces, or declares a menace.

Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate.

Denouncing

DENOUNCING, participle present tense Declaring, as a threat; threatening; accusing.

Dense

DENSE, adjective

1. Close; compact; having its constituent parts closely united; applied to solids or fluids; as a dense body; dense air.

2. Thick; as a dense cloud, or fog.

Denseness

DENSENESS, noun The same as density.

Density

DENSITY, noun

1. Closeness of constituent parts; compactness. density is opposed to rarity; and in philosophy, the density of a body indicates the quantity of matter contained in it, under a given bulk. If a body of equal bulk with another is of double the density it contains double the quantity of matter.

2. Thickness; as the density of fog.

Dent

DENT, noun

1. Literally, a tooth or projecting point. But it is used to express a gap or notch, or rather a depression or small hollow in a solid body; a hollow made by the pressure of a harder body on a softer; indentation. In this sense, it is in customary use in the United States.

2. A stroke.

DENT, verb transitive To make a dent or small hollow.

Dental

DENTAL, adjective Pertaining to the teeth. In grammar, formed or pronounced by the teeth, with the aid of the tongue; as, D and T are dental letters.

DENTAL, noun

1. An articulation or letter formed by placing the end of the tongue against the upper teeth, or against the gum that covers the root of the upper teeth, as D, T, and Th.

2. A genus of shell-fish, Dentalium, of several species. The shell consists of one tubulous straight valve, open at both ends.

Dentalite

DENTALITE, noun A fossil shell of the genus Dentalium.

Dentate

DENTATE,

DENTATED, adjective Toothed; notched.

In botany, a dentated root is one that consists of a concatenation of joints, resembling a necklace.

A dentate leaf is one that has horizontal points, with a space between each, or points in the plane of the disk, or having points like teeth on the margin.

Dentato-Sinuate

DENTATO-SINUATE, adjective Having points like teeth with hollows about the edge.

Dented

DENTED, adjective Indented; impressed with little hollows.

Dentelli

DENTELLI, noun Modillions.

Denticle

DENTICLE, noun A small tooth or projecting point.

Denticulate

DENTICULATE,

DENTICULATED, adjective [Latin A tooth.] Having small teeth or notches; as a denticulate leaf, calyx or seed.

Denticulated

DENTICULATED, a. [L. A tooth.] Having small teeth or notches; as a denticulate leaf, calyx or seed.

Denticulation

DENTICULATION, noun The state of being set with small teeth, or prominences or points, resembling the teeth of a saw.

Dentiform

DENTIFORM, adjective [Latin A tooth and form.] Having the form of a tooth.

Dentifrice

DENTIFRICE, noun [Latin A tooth and to rub] A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth. Burnt shells and charcoal pulverized make an excellent dentifrice

Dentil

DENTIL, noun [Latin A tooth.] In architecture, an ornament in cornices bearing some resemblance to teeth; used particularly in the Ionic and Corinthian order.

Dentist

DENTIST, noun One whose occupation is to clean and extract teeth, or repair the loss of them.

Dentition

DENTITION, noun [Latin To breed teeth.]

1. The breeding or cutting of teeth in infancy.

2. The time of breeding teeth.

Dentize

DENTIZE, verb transitive To renew the teeth, or have them renewed.

Dentoid

DENTOID, adjective [Latin A tooth and form.] Having a form of teeth.

Denudate

DENUDATE or DENUDE, verb transitive [Latin To make bare; naked.] To strip; to divest of all covering; to make bare or naked.

Denudation

DENUDATION, noun

1. The act of stripping off covering; a making bare.

2. In geology, the act of washing away the surface of the earth by the deluge or other flood.

Denuded

DENUDED, participle passive Stripped; divested of covering; laid bare.

Denuding

DENUDING, participle present tense Stripping of covering; making bare.

Denunciate

DENUNCIATE, verb transitive To denounce, which see.

Denunciation

DENUNCIATION, noun

1. Publication; proclamation; annunciation; preaching; as a faithful denunciation of the gospel.

2. Solemn or formal declaration, accompanied with a menace; or the declaration of intended evil; proclamation of a threat; a public menace; as a denunciation of war, or of wrath.

Denunciator

DENUNCIATOR, noun

1. He that denounces; one who publishes or proclaims, especially intended evil; one who threatens.

2. An accuser; one who informs against another.

Deny

DENY, verb transitive

1. To contradict; to gainsay; to declare a statement or position not to be true. We deny what another says, or we deny a proposition. We deny the truth of an assertion, or the assertion itself. The sense of this verb is often expressed by no or nay.

2. To refuse to grant; as, we asked for bread, and the man denied us.

3. Not to afford; to withhold.

Who find not Providence all good and wise,

Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

4. To disown; to refuse or neglect to acknowledge; not to confess.

5. To reject; to disown; not to receive or embrace.

He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 1 Timothy 5:1.

DENYing ungodliness and worldly lusts. Titus 2:1.

6. Not to afford or yield.

To deny ones self, is to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to refrain from; to abstain. The temperate man denies himself the free use of spirituous liquors. I denied myself the pleasure of your company.

God cannot deny himself. He cannot act in contradiction to his character and promises. He cannot be unfaithful. 2 Timothy 2:12.

Deobstruct

DEOBSTRUCT, verb transitive [Latin To stop; to pile.]

To remove obstructions, or impediments to a passage; to clear from any thing that hinders the passage of fluids in the proper ducts of the body; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals.

Deobstructed

DEOBSTRUCTED, participle passive Cleared of obstructions; opened.

Deobstructing

DEOBSTRUCTING, participle present tense Removing impediments to a passage.

Deobstruent

DEOBSTRUENT, adjective Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; resolving viscidities; aperient.

DEOBSTRUENT, noun Any medicine which removes obstructions and opens the natural passages of the fluids of the body, as the pores and lacteal vessels; an aperient Calomel is a powerful deobstruent

Deodand

DEODAND, noun [Latin To be given to God.]

In England, a personal chattel which is the immediate occasion of the death of a rational creature, and for that reason, given to God, that is, forfeited to the king, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by his high almoner. Thus, if a cart runs over a man and kills him, the cart is forfeited as a deodand

Deonerate

DEONERATE, verb transitive To unload.

Deoppilate

DEOPPILATE, verb transitive To free from obstructions; to clear a passage.

Deoppilation

DEOPPILATION, noun The removal of obstructions.

Deoppilative

DEOPPILATIVE, adjective Deobstruent; aperient.

Deordination

DEORDINATION, noun Disorder.

Deosculate

DEOSCULATE, verb transitive To kiss.

Deosculation

DEOSCULATION, noun A kissing.

Deosydated

DEOSYDATED, participle passive Reduced from the state of an oxyd.

Deoxydate

DEOXYDATE, verb transitive To deprive of oxygen, or reduce from the state of an oxyd.

Deoxydating

DEOXYDATING, participle present tense Reducing from the state of an oxyd.

Deoxydation

DEOXYDATION, noun The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxyd.

Deoxydization

DEOXYDIZATION, noun Deoxydation.

Deoxydize

DEOXYDIZE, verb transitive To deoxydate.

Deoxydized

DEOXYDIZED, participle passive Deoxydated.

Deoxydizing

DEOXYDIZING, participle present tense Deoxydating.

NOTE. Deoxydate and deoxydize are synonymous; but the former is preferable, on account of the length of the word deoxydization.

Deoxygenate

DEOXYGENATE, verb transitive To deprive of oxygen.

Deoxygenated

DEOXYGENATED, verb transitive Deprived of oxygen.

Deoxygenating

DEOXYGENATING, participle present tense Depriving of oxygen.

Deoxygenation

DEOXYGENATION, noun The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

Depaint

DEPAINT, verb transitive [Latin To paint.]

1. To paint; to picture; to represent in colors, as by painting the resemblance.

2. To describe in words.

Depainted

DEPAINTED, participle passive Painted; represented in colors; described.

Depainter

DEPAINTER, noun A painter.

Depainting

DEPAINTING, participle present tense Painting; representing in colors; describing.

Depart

DEPART, verb intransitive

1. To go or move from.

DEPART from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. Matthew 25:41.

It is followed by from, or from is implied before the place left.

I will depart to my own land, that is, I will depart from this place to my own land. Numbers 10:30.

2. To go from; to leave; to desist, as from a practice. Jehu departed not from the sins of Jeroboam. Jehoshaphat departed not from the way of Asa his father.

3. To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow; as, we cannot depart from our rules.

I have not departed from thy judgments. Psalms 119:115.

4. To desist; to leave; to abandon; as, he would not depart from his purpose, resolution, or demand.

5. To be lost; to perish; to vanish; as, his glory has departed.

6. To die; to decease; to leave this world.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. Luke 2:29.

To depart this life is elliptical, from being understood.

8. To cease.

The prey departeth not. Nahum 3.

9. To deviate; to vary from.

If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles-

10. To vary; to deviate from the title or defense in pleading.

11. To part with.

To depart from God, is to forsake his service and live in sin; to apostatize; to revolt; to desert his government and laws.

God departs from men, when he abandons them to their own sinful inclinations, or ceases to bestow on them his favor. Hosea 9.

DEPART, verb transitive To divide or separate; to part.

DEPART, noun

1. The act of going away; death.

2. Division; separation.

Departer

DEPARTER, noun One who refines metals by separation.

Departing

DEPARTING, participle present tense Going from; leaving; desisting; forsaking; vanishing; dying.

DEPARTING, noun A going away; separation.

Department

DEPARTMENT, noun

1. Literally, a separation or division; hence, a separate part, or portion; a division of territory; as the departments of France.

2. A separate allotment or part of business; a distinct province, in which a class of duties are allotted to a particular person; as the department of state, assigned to the secretary of state; the treasury department; the department of war.

3. A separate station; as, the admirals had their respective departments. Nearly in this sense, during war, were used in America, the terms, Northern and Southern departments.

Departmental

DEPARTMENTAL, adjective Pertaining to a department, or division.

Departure

DEPARTURE, noun

1. The act of going away; a moving from or leaving a place; as a departure from London.

2. Death; decease; removal from the present life.

The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Timothy 4:6.

3. A forsaking; abandonment; as a departure from evil.

4. A desisting; as a departure from a purpose.

5. Ruin; destruction. Ezekiel 26:18.

6. A deviation from the title or defense in pleading.

7. In navigation, the distance of two places on the same parallel, counted in miles of the equator.

Depascent

DEPASCENT, adjective [Latin To feed.] Feeding.

Depasture

DEPASTURE, verb transitive To eat up; to consume.

DEPASTURE, verb intransitive To feed; to graze.

If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment-

Depasturing

DEPASTURING, participle present tense Feeding; grazing; eating up.

Depauperate

DEPAUPERATE, verb transitive [Latin To beggar.] To make poor; to impoverish; to deprive of fertility or richness; as, to depauperate the soil or the blood.

Depauperated

DEPAUPERATED, participle passive Impoverished; made poor.

Depauperating

DEPAUPERATING, participle present tense Impoverishing; making poor.

Depectible

DEPECTIBLE, adjective [Latin To comb.] Tough; thick.

Depeinct

DEPEINCT, verb transitive To paint.

Depend

DEPEND, verb intransitive [Latin To hang.]

1. To hang; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above; followed by from.

From the frozen beard

Long icicles depend

2. To be connected with anything, as the cause of its existence or of its operation and effects; to rely on; to have such connection with any thing as a cause, that without it, the effect would not be produced; followed by on or upon. We depend on God for existence; we depend on air for respiration; vegetation depends on heat and moisture; the infant depends on its parents for support; the peace of society depends on good laws and a faithful administration.

3. To adhere; to hold to; to be retained.

4. To be in suspense; to be undetermined; as, the cause still depends. But the verb is seldom used in this sense. We use the participle; as, the suit is still depending in court.

5. To rely; to rest with confidence; to trust; to confide; to have full confidence or belief, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends. We depend on the arrival of the mail at the usual hour. depend on it, the knave will deceive us.

To depend on or upon, to rely; to trust in, with confidence.

Dependable

DEPENDABLE, adjective That may be depended on; as dependable friendships.

Dependence

DEPENDENCE,

DEPENDENCY, noun

1. A state of hanging down from a supporter.

2. Any thing hanging down; a series of things hanging to another.

And made a long dependence from the bough.

3. Concatenation; connection by which one thing is sustained by another, in its place, operations or effects, or is affected by it.

But of this frame the bearings and the ties,

The strong connections, nice dependencies.

4. A state of being at the disposal of another; a state of being subject to the will of an intelligent cause, or to the power and operation of any other cause; inability to sustain itself without the aid of.

We ought to feel our dependence on God for life and support. The child should be sensible of his dependence on his parents. In the natural and moral world, we observe the dependence of one thing on another.

5. Reliance; confidence; trust; a resting on; as, we may have a firm dependence on the promises of God.

6. Accident; that of which the existence presupposes the existence of something else; that which pertains to something else; as modes which are considered as dependencies or affections of substances.

7. That which is attached to, but subordinate to something else; as this earth and its dependencies.

8. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; as distant isles or countries. Great Britain has its dependencies, in Asia, Africa and America.

Dependency

DEPENDENCY, n. 1. A state of hanging down from a supporter.2. Any thing hanging down; a series of things hanging to another.And made a long dependence from the bough.3. Concatenation; connection by which one thing is sustained by another, in its place, operations or effects, or is affected by it. But of this frame the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies.4. A state of being at the disposal of another; a state of being subject to the will of an intelligent cause, or to the power and operation of any other cause; inability to sustain itself without the aid of.We ought to feel our dependence on God for life and support. The child should be sensible of his dependence on his parents. In the natural and moral world, we observe the dependence of one thing on another.5. Reliance; confidence; trust; a resting on; as, we may have a firm dependence on the promises of God.6. Accident; that of which the existence presupposes the existence of something else; that which pertains to something else; as modes which are considered as dependencies or affections of substances.7. That which is attached to, but subordinate to something else; as this earth and its dependencies.8. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; as distant isles or countries. Great Britain has its dependencies, in Asia, Africa and America.

Dependent

DEPENDENT, adjective

1. Hanging down; as a dependent leaf.

The furs in the tails were dependent

2. Subject to the power of; at the disposal of; not able to exist or sustain itself without the will or power of. Thus, we are dependent on God and his providence; and effect may be dependent on some unknown cause.

3. Relying on for support or favor; unable to subsist or to perform any thing, without the aid of.

Children are dependent on their parents for food and clothing. The pupil is dependent on his preceptor for instruction.

DEPENDENT, noun One who is at the disposal of another; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support or favor; a retainer; as, the prince was followed by a numerous train of dependents.

Depender

DEPENDER, noun One who depends; a dependent.

Depending

DEPENDING, participle present tense

1. Hanging down; relying.

2. adjective Pending; undecided; as a suit or question.

Deperdit

DEPERDIT, adjective That which is lost or destroyed.

Deperdition

DEPERDITION, noun Loss; destruction.

Dephlegmate

DEPHLEGMATE, verb transitive [Gr. To burn.] To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation, used of spirit and acids; to clear spirit or acids of aqueous matter; to rectify.

Dephlegmation

DEPHLEGMATION, noun The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; called also concentration, particularly when acids are the subject.

Dephlegmedness

DEPHLEGMEDNESS, noun A state of being freed from water.

Dephlogisticate

DEPHLOGISTICATE, verb transitive [Gr. Burnt, inflammable.] To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.

Dephlogisticated

DEPHLOGISTICATED, participle passive Deprived of phlogiston. dephlogisticated air, is an elastic fluid capable of supporting animal life and flame much longer than common air. It is now called oxygen, oxygen gas, or vital air.

Depict

DEPICT, verb transitive [Latin To paint.]

1. To paint; to portray; to form a likeness in colors; as, to depict a lion on a shield.

2. To describe; to represent in words; as, the poet depicts the virtues of his hero in glowing language.

Depicted

DEPICTED, participle passive Painted; represented in colors; described.

Depicting

DEPICTING, participle present tense Painting; representing in colors, or in words.

Depicture

DEPICTURE, verb transitive To paint; to picture; to represent in colors.

Depilate

DEPILATE, verb transitive [Latin Hair.] To strip of hair.

Depilation

DEPILATION, noun The act of pulling off the hair.

Depilatory

DEPILATORY, adjective Having the quality or power to take off hair and make bald.

DEPILATORY, noun Any application which is used to take off the hair of an animal body; such as lime and orpiment.

Depilous

DEPILOUS, adjective Without hair.

Deplantation

DEPLANTATION, noun The act of taking up plants from beds.

Depletion

DEPLETION, noun [Latin To fill.] The act of emptying; particularly, in the medical art, the act of diminishing the quantity of blood in the vessels by venesection; bloodletting.

Deplorable

DEPLORABLE, adjective

1. That may be deplored or lamented; lamentable; that demands or causes lamentation; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; miserable; wretched; as, the evils of life are deplorable; the Pagan world is in a deplorable condition.

Deplorate, in a like sense, is not used.

2. In popular use, low; contemptible; pitiable; as deplorable stupidity.

Deplorableness

DEPLORABLENESS, noun The state of being deplorable; misery; wretchedness; a miserable state.

Deplorably

DEPLORABLY, adverb In a manner to be deplored; lamentably; miserable; as, manners are deplorably corrupt.

Deploration

DEPLORATION, noun The act of lamenting. In music, a dirge or mournful strain.

Deplore

DEPLORE, verb transitive [Latin To howl; to wail.] To lament; to bewail; to mourn; to feel or express deep and poignant grief for. We deplored the death of Washington.

Deplored

DEPLORED, participle passive Lamented; bewailed; deeply regretted.

Deploredly

DEPLOREDLY, adverb Lamentably.

Deplorer

DEPLORER, noun One who deplores, or deeply laments; a deep mourner.

Deploring

DEPLORING, participle present tense Bewailing; deeply lamenting.

Deploy

DEPLOY, verb transitive To display; to open; to extend; a military term.

DEPLOY, verb intransitive To open; to extend; to form a more extended front or line.

Deploying

DEPLOYING, participle present tense Opening; extending; displaying.

Deplumation

DEPLUMATION, noun

1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

2. A tumor of the eye-lids with loss of hair.

Deplume

DEPLUME, verb transitive [Latin A feather.] To strip or pluck off feathers; to deprive of plumage.

Deplumed

DEPLUMED, participle passive Stripped of feathers or plumes.

Depluming

DEPLUMING, participle present tense Stripping off plumes or feathers.

Depolarize

DEPOLARIZE, verb transitive To deprive of polarity.

Depone

DEPONE, verb transitive To lay down as a pledge; to wage.

Deponent

DEPONENT, adjective

1. Laying down.

2. A deponent verb, in the Latin Grammar, is a verb which has a passive termination, with an active signification, and wants one of the passive participles; as, loquor, to speak.

DEPONENT, .

1. One who deposes, or gives a deposition under oath; one who gives written testimony to be used as evidence in a court of justice. With us in New England, this word is never used, I believe, for a witness who gives oral testimony in court. In England, a deponent is one who gives answers under oath to interrogatories exhibited in chancery.

2. A deponent verb.

Depopulate

DEPOPULATE, verb transitive [Latin To ravage or lay waste.] To dispeople; to unpeople; to deprive of inhabitants, whether by death, or by expulsion. It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers. The deluge nearly depopulated the earth.

DEPOPULATE, verb intransitive To become dispeopled.

Depopulated

DEPOPULATED, participle passive Dispeopled; deprived of inhabitants.

Depopulating

DEPOPULATING, participle present tense Dispeopling; depriving of inhabitants.

Depopulation

DEPOPULATION, noun The act of dispeopling; destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.

Depopulator

DEPOPULATOR, noun One who depopulates; one who destroys or expels the inhabitants of a city, town or country; a dispeopler.

Deport

DEPORT, verb transitive [Latin To carry.]

1. With the reciprocal pronoun, to carry; to demean; to behave.

Let an embassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.

2. To transport; to carry away, or from one country to another.

He told us, he had been deported to Spain, with a hundred others like himself.

DEPORT, noun Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment; as goddess-like deport

Deportation

DEPORTATION, noun Transportation; a carrying away; a removal from one country to another, or to a distant place; exile; banishment.

Deported

DEPORTED, participle passive Carried away; transported; banished.

Deporting

DEPORTING, participle present tense Carrying away; removing to a distant place or country; transporting; banishing.

Deportment

DEPORTMENT, noun Carriage; manner of acting in relation to the duties of life; behavior; demeanor ; conduct; management.

Deposable

DEPOSABLE, adjective That may be deposed, or deprived of office.

Deposal

DEPOSAL, noun The act of deposing, or divesting of office.

Depose

DEPOSE, verb transitive [Latin To lay or put.]

1. To lay down; to throw; to let fall; as, the flood deposed fine particles of earth on the bank of the river. In this sense, we now use deposit.

2. To reduce from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to degrade; to devest of office; as, to depose a king or a pope.

3. To give testimony on oath, especially to give testimony which is committed to writing; to give answers to interrogatories, intended as evidence in a court.

4. To lay aside.

5. To take away; to strip; to divest.

6. To examine on oath.

DEPOSE, verb intransitive To bear witness.

Deposed

DEPOSED, participle passive Dethroned; degraded; testified.

Deposer

DEPOSER, noun One who deposes or degrades from office.

Deposing

DEPOSING, participle present tense Dethroning; degrading; bearing witness.

DEPOSING, noun The act of dethroning.