DEBARRED — DECEMDENTATE NWAD DEBARRED.1

DEBARRED, pp. Hindered from approach, entrance or possession. NWAD DEBARRED.1

DEBARRING, ppr. Preventing from approach, entrance or enjoyment. NWAD DEBARRING.1

DEBASE, v.t. NWAD DEBASE.1

1. To reduce from a higher to a lower state or rank, in estimation. NWAD DEBASE.2

The drunkard debases himself and his character. NWAD DEBASE.3

Intemperance and debauchery debase men almost to a level with beasts. NWAD DEBASE.4

2. To reduce or lower in quality, purity, or value; to adulterate; as, to debase gold or silver by alloy. NWAD DEBASE.5

3. To lower or degrade; to make mean or despicable. Religion should not be debased by frivolous disputes. Vicious habits debase the mind, as well as the character. NWAD DEBASE.6

4. To sink in purity or elegance; to vitiate by meanness; as, to debase style by the use of vulgar words. NWAD DEBASE.7

DEBASED, pp. Reduced in estimated rank; lowered in estimation; reduced in purity, fineness, quality or value; adulterated; degraded; rendered mean. NWAD DEBASED.1

DEBASEMENT, n. The act of debasing; degradation; reduction of purity, fineness, quality or value; adulteration; a state of being debased; as debasement of character, of our faculties, of the coin, of style, etc. NWAD DEBASEMENT.1

DEBASER, n. One who debases or lowers in estimation, or in value; one who degrades or renders mean; that which debases. NWAD DEBASER.1

DEBASING, ppr. NWAD DEBASING.1

1. Reducing in estimation or worth; adulterating; reducing in purity or elegance; degrading; rendering mean. NWAD DEBASING.2

2. a. Lowering; tending to debase or degrade; as debasing vices. NWAD DEBASING.3

DEBATABLE, a. That may be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; as a debatable question. NWAD DEBATABLE.1

DEBATE, n. NWAD DEBATE.1

1. Contention in words or arguments; discussion for elucidating truth; strife in argument or reasoning, between persons of different opinions, each endeavoring to prove his own opinion right, and that of his opposer wrong; dispute; controversy; as the debates in parliament or in congress. NWAD DEBATE.2

2. Strife; contention. NWAD DEBATE.3

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate. Isaiah 1:8. NWAD DEBATE.4

3. The power of being disputed; as, this question is settled beyond debate; the story is true beyond debate. NWAD DEBATE.5

4. Debate or debates, the published report of arguments for and against a measure; as, the debates in the convention are printed. NWAD DEBATE.6

DEBATE, v.t. To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain a cause by reasoning; to dispute; to discuss; to argue; to contest, as opposing parties; as, the question was debated till a late hour. NWAD DEBATE.7

Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself. Proverbs 25:9. NWAD DEBATE.8

DEBATE, v.i. NWAD DEBATE.9

1. To debate on or in, to deliberate; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind. NWAD DEBATE.10

2. To dispute. NWAD DEBATE.11

3. To engage in combat. NWAD DEBATE.12

DEBATED, pp. Disputed; argued; discussed. NWAD DEBATED.1

DEBATEFUL, a. NWAD DEBATEFUL.1

1. Of things, contested; occasioning contention. NWAD DEBATEFUL.2

2. Of persons, quarrelsome; contentious. NWAD DEBATEFUL.3

DEBATEFULLY, adv. With contention. NWAD DEBATEFULLY.1

DEBATEMENT, n. Controversy; deliberation. NWAD DEBATEMENT.1

DEBATER, n. One who debates; a disputant; a controvertist. NWAD DEBATER.1

DEBATING, ppr. Disputing; discussing; contending by arguments. NWAD DEBATING.1

DEBAUCH, v.t. [The general sense of debauch, in English, is to lead astray, like seduce.] NWAD DEBAUCH.1

1. To corrupt or vitiate; as, to debauch a prince or a youth; to debauch good principles. NWAD DEBAUCH.2

2. To corrupt with lewdness; as, to debauch a woman. NWAD DEBAUCH.3

3. To seduce from duty or allegiance; as, to debauch an army. NWAD DEBAUCH.4

DEBAUCH, n. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; gluttony; lewdness. NWAD DEBAUCH.5

DEBAUCHED, pp. Corrupted; vitiated in morals or purity of character. NWAD DEBAUCHED.1

DEBAUCHEDLY, adv. In a profligate manner. NWAD DEBAUCHEDLY.1

DEBAUCHEDNESS, n. Intemperance. NWAD DEBAUCHEDNESS.1

DEBAUCHEE, n. A man given to intemperance, or bacchanalian excesses. But chiefly, a man habitually lewd. NWAD DEBAUCHEE.1

DEBAUCHER, n. One who debauches or corrupts others; a seducer to lewdness, or to any dereliction of duty. NWAD DEBAUCHER.1

DEBAUCHERY, n. NWAD DEBAUCHERY.1

1. Excess in the pleasures of the table; gluttony; intemperance. But chiefly, habitual lewdness; excessive unlawful indulgence of lust. NWAD DEBAUCHERY.2

2. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from duty or allegiance. NWAD DEBAUCHERY.3

The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. NWAD DEBAUCHERY.4

DEBAUCHMENT, n. The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. NWAD DEBAUCHMENT.1

DEBELLATE, v.t. To subdue. NWAD DEBELLATE.1

DEBELLATION, n. The act of conquering or subduing. NWAD DEBELLATION.1

DEBENTURE, n. [Fr. from L. debeo, to owe.] NWAD DEBENTURE.1

1. A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person. This paper, given by an officer of the customs, entitles a merchant exporting goods, to the receipt of a bounty, or a drawback of duties. When issued by a treasurer, it entitles the holder to a sum of money from the state. NWAD DEBENTURE.2

2. In the customs, a certificate of drawback; a writing which states that a person is entitled to a certain sum from the government, on the exportation of specified goods, the duties on which had been paid. NWAD DEBENTURE.3

DEBENTURED, a. Debentured goods are those for which a debenture has been given, as being entitled to drawback. NWAD DEBENTURED.1

DEBILE, a. Relaxed; weak; feeble; languid; faint; without strength. NWAD DEBILE.1

DEBILITATE, v.t. To weaken; to impair the strength of; to enfeeble; to make faint or languid. Intemperance debilitates the organs of digestion. Excessive indulgence debilitates the system. NWAD DEBILITATE.1

DEBILITATED, pp. Weakened; enfeebled; relaxed. NWAD DEBILITATED.1

DEBILITATING, ppr. Weakening; enfeebling; impairing strength. NWAD DEBILITATING.1

DEBILITATION, n. The act of weakening; relaxation. NWAD DEBILITATION.1

DEBILITY, n. Relaxation of the solids; weakness; feebleness; languor of body; faintness; imbecility; as, morbid sweats induce debility. NWAD DEBILITY.1

DEBIT, n. [L. debitum, from debeo, to owe.] Debt. It is usually written debt. But it is used in mercantile language, as the debit side of an account. NWAD DEBIT.1

DEBIT, v.t. NWAD DEBIT.2

1. To charge with debt; as, to debit a purchaser the amount of goods sold. NWAD DEBIT.3

2. To enter an account on the debtor side of a book; as, to debit the sum or amount of goods sold. NWAD DEBIT.4

DEBITED, pp. NWAD DEBITED.1

1. Charged in debt; made debtor on account. NWAD DEBITED.2

2. Charged to one’s debt, as money or goods. NWAD DEBITED.3

DEBITING, ppr. NWAD DEBITING.1

1. Making debtor on account, as a person. NWAD DEBITING.2

2. Charging to the debt of a person, as goods. NWAD DEBITING.3

DEBITOR, n. A debtor. NWAD DEBITOR.1

DEBOISE, DEBOISH, for debauch. NWAD DEBOISE.1

DEBONNAIR, a. Civil; wellbred; complaisant; elegant. NWAD DEBONNAIR.1

DEBOUCH, v.i. To issue or march out of a narrow place, or from defiles, as troops. NWAD DEBOUCH.1

DEBRIS, n. debree’. Fragments; rubbish; ruins; applied particularly to the fragments of rocks. NWAD DEBRIS.1

DEBT, n. det. [L. debitum, contracted.] NWAD DEBT.1

1. That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another; as the debts of a bankrupt; the debts of a nobleman. It is a common misfortune or vice to be in debt. NWAD DEBT.2

When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty. NWAD DEBT.3

2. That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer. NWAD DEBT.4

Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier’s debt. NWAD DEBT.5

Hence death is called the debt of nature. NWAD DEBT.6

3. In law, an action to recover a debt. This is a customary ellipsis. He brought debt, instead of an action of debt. NWAD DEBT.7

4. In scripture, sin; trespass; guilt; crime; that which renders liable to punishment. NWAD DEBT.8

Forgive us our debts. Lord’s Prayer. NWAD DEBT.9

DEBTED, pp. det’ted. Indebted; obliged to. NWAD DEBTED.1

DEBTEE, n. dettee’. A creditor; one to whom a debt is due. NWAD DEBTEE.1

DEBTLESS, a. det’less. Free from debt. NWAD DEBTLESS.1

DEBTOR, n. det’tor. NWAD DEBTOR.1

1. The person who owes another either money, goods or services. NWAD DEBTOR.2

In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. NWAD DEBTOR.3

2. One who is under obligation to do something. NWAD DEBTOR.4

I am debtor to the Greeks and barbarians. Romans 1:14. NWAD DEBTOR.5

He is a debtor to do the whole law. Galatians 5:3. NWAD DEBTOR.6

3. The side of an account in which debts are charged. NWAD DEBTOR.7

DECACHORD, DECACHORDON, n. [Gr. ten or string] NWAD DECACHORD.1

1. A musical instrument of ten strings. NWAD DECACHORD.2

2. Something consisting of ten parts. NWAD DECACHORD.3

DECADAL, a. Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens. NWAD DECADAL.1

DECADE, n. [Gr., ten.] The sum or number of ten; an aggregate consisting of ten; as a decade of years; the decades of Livy. NWAD DECADE.1

DECADENCE, DECADENCY, n. Decay. NWAD DECADENCE.1

DECAGON, n. [Gr., ten and corner.] In geometry, a plane figure having ten sides and ten angles. NWAD DECAGON.1

DECAGRAM, n. [Gr., ten and a weight.] A French weight of ten grams, or 154 grains, 44 decimals, equal to 6 penny weights, and 10 grains, 44 decimals, equal to 5 grams, 63 decimals, avoirdupoise. NWAD DECAGRAM.1

DECAGYN, n. [Gr., ten and female.] In botany, a plant having ten pistils. NWAD DECAGYN.1

DECAGYNIAN, a. Having ten pistils. NWAD DECAGYNIAN.1

DECAHEDRAL, a. Having ten sides. NWAD DECAHEDRAL.1

DECAHEDRON, n. [Gr., ten and a base.] In geometry, a figure or body having ten sides. NWAD DECAHEDRON.1

DECALITER, n. [Gr., ten and liter.] A French measure of capacity, containing ten liters, or 610.28 cubic inches, equal to two gallons and 64,44231 cubic inches. NWAD DECALITER.1

DECALOGIST, n. One who explains the decalogue. NWAD DECALOGIST.1

DECALOGUE, n. dec’alog. [Gr., ten and speech.] The ten commandments or precepts given by God to Moses at mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone. NWAD DECALOGUE.1

DECAMETER, n. [Gr., ten and measure.] A French measure of length, consisting of ten meters, and equal to 393 English inches, and 71 decimals. NWAD DECAMETER.1

DECAMP, v.i. To remove or depart from a camp; to march off; as, the army decamped at six o’clock. NWAD DECAMP.1

DECAMPMENT, n. Departure from a camp; a marching off. NWAD DECAMPMENT.1

DECANAL, a. Pertaining to a deanery. NWAD DECANAL.1

DECANDER, n. [Gr., ten and a male.] In botany, a plant having ten stamens. NWAD DECANDER.1

DECANDRIAN, a. Having ten stamens. NWAD DECANDRIAN.1

DECANGULAR, a. [Gr., ten and angular.] Having ten angles. NWAD DECANGULAR.1

DECANT, v.t. [L., to sing; literally, to throw.] To pour off gently, as liquor from its sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine. NWAD DECANT.1

DECANTATION, n. The act of pouring liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another. NWAD DECANTATION.1

DECANTED, pp. Poured off, or from one vessel into another. NWAD DECANTED.1

DECANTER, n. NWAD DECANTER.1

1. A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors. A glass vessel or bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, for filling the drinking glasses. NWAD DECANTER.2

2. One who decants liquors. NWAD DECANTER.3

DECANTING, ppr. Pouring off, as liquor from its lees, or from one vessel to another. NWAD DECANTING.1

DECAPITATE, v.t. [L., head.] To behead; to cut off the head. NWAD DECAPITATE.1

DECAPITATION, n. The act of beheading. NWAD DECAPITATION.1

DECAPHYLLOUS, a. [Gr. ten and a leaf.] Having ten leaves. NWAD DECAPHYLLOUS.1

DECARBONIZE, v.t. To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel. NWAD DECARBONIZE.1

DECARBONIZED, pp. Deprived of carbon. NWAD DECARBONIZED.1

DECARBONIZING, ppr. Depriving of carbon. NWAD DECARBONIZING.1

DECASTICH, n. [Gr. ten and a verse.] A poem consisting of ten lines. NWAD DECASTICH.1

DECASTYLE, n. [Gr. ten and a column.] A building with an ordnance of ten columns in front. NWAD DECASTYLE.1

DECAY, v.i. [Fr. dechoir, from L. de and cado, to fall, or decedo.] NWAD DECAY.1

1. To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to a less perfect state, or towards destruction; to fail; to decline; to be gradually impaired. Our bodies decay in old age; a tree decays; buildings decay; fortunes decay. NWAD DECAY.2

2. To become weaker; to fail; as, our strength decays, or hopes decay. NWAD DECAY.3

DECAY, v.t. To cause to fail; to impair; to bring to a worse state. NWAD DECAY.4

Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make better the fool. NWAD DECAY.5

DECAY, n. NWAD DECAY.6

1. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or any species of excellence or perfection; decline to a worse or less perfect state; tendency towards dissolution or extinction; a state of depravation or diminution. Old men feel the decay of the body. We perceive the decay of the faculties in age. We lament the decay of virtue and patriotism in the state. The northern nations invaded the Roman Empire, when in a state of decay. NWAD DECAY.7

2. Declension from prosperity; decline of fortune. NWAD DECAY.8

If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay. Leviticus 25:35. NWAD DECAY.9

3. Cause of decay. NWAD DECAY.10

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age. NWAD DECAY.11

DECAYED, pp. Having fallen from a good or sound state; impaired; weakened; diminished. NWAD DECAYED.1

DECAYEDNESS, n. A state of being impaired; decayed state. NWAD DECAYEDNESS.1

DECAYER, n. That which causes decay. NWAD DECAYER.1

DECAYING, ppr. Failing; declining; passing from a good, prosperous or sound state, to a worse condition; perishing. NWAD DECAYING.1

DECAYING, n. Decay; decline. NWAD DECAYING.2

DECEASE, n. [L. to depart or to withdraw.] Literally, departure; hence, departure from this life; death; applied to human beings only. NWAD DECEASE.1

Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory, and spoke of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke 9:31. NWAD DECEASE.2

DECEASE, v.i. To depart from this life; to die. NWAD DECEASE.3

Gen. Washington deceased, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age. NWAD DECEASE.4

DECEASED, pp. or a. Departed from life. This is used as a passive participle. He is deceased, for he has deceased; he was deceased, for he had deceased. This use of the participle of an intransitive verb is not infrequent, but the word omitted is really has. He has deceased. It is properly an adjective, like dead. NWAD DECEASED.1

DECEASING, ppr. Departing from life; dying. NWAD DECEASING.1

DECEDENT, n. A deceased person. NWAD DECEDENT.1

DECEIT, n. NWAD DECEIT.1

1. Literally, a catching or ensnaring. Hence, the misleading of a person; the leading of another person to believe what is false, or not to believe what is true, and thus to ensnare him; fraud; fallacy; cheat; any declaration, artifice or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false. NWAD DECEIT.2

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. Job 27:4. NWAD DECEIT.3

2. Stratagem; artifice; device intended to mislead. NWAD DECEIT.4

They imagine deceits all the day long. Psalm 38:12. NWAD DECEIT.5

3. In scripture, that which is obtained by guile, fraud or oppression. NWAD DECEIT.6

Their houses are full of deceit. Jeremiah 5:27; Zephaniah 1:9. NWAD DECEIT.7

4. In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, shift, covin, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. NWAD DECEIT.8

DECEITFUL, a. NWAD DECEITFUL.1

1. Tending to mislead, deceive or ensnare; as deceitful words; deceitful practices. NWAD DECEITFUL.2

Favor is deceitful. Proverbs 31:30. NWAD DECEITFUL.3

2. Full of deceit; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; as a deceitful man. NWAD DECEITFUL.4

DECEITFULLY, adv. In a deceitful manner; fraudulently; with deceit; in a manner or with a view to deceive. NWAD DECEITFULLY.1

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully. Genesis 34:13. NWAD DECEITFULLY.2

DECEITFULNESS, n. NWAD DECEITFULNESS.1

1. Tendency to mislead or deceive; as the deceitfulness of sin. NWAD DECEITFULNESS.2

2. The quality of being fraudulent; as the deceitfulness of a man’s practices. NWAD DECEITFULNESS.3

3. The disposition to deceive; as, a man’s deceitfulness may be habitual. NWAD DECEITFULNESS.4

DECEITLESS, a. Free from deceit. NWAD DECEITLESS.1

DECEIVABLE, a. NWAD DECEIVABLE.1

1. Subject to deceit or imposition; capable of being misled or entrapped; exposed to imposture; as, young persons are very deceivable. NWAD DECEIVABLE.2

2. Subject or apt to produce error or deception; deceitful. NWAD DECEIVABLE.3

Fair promises often prove deceivable. NWAD DECEIVABLE.4

DECEIVABLENESS, n. NWAD DECEIVABLENESS.1

1. Liableness to be deceived. NWAD DECEIVABLENESS.2

2. Liableness to deceive. NWAD DECEIVABLENESS.3

The deceivableness of unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:10. NWAD DECEIVABLENESS.4

DECEIVE, v.t. [L to take asid, to ensnare.] NWAD DECEIVE.1

1. To mislead the mind; to cause to err; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose on; to delude. NWAD DECEIVE.2

Take heed that no man deceive you. Matthew 24:4. NWAD DECEIVE.3

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. 1 John 1:8. NWAD DECEIVE.4

2. To beguile; to cheat. NWAD DECEIVE.5

Your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times. NWAD DECEIVE.6

3. To cut off from expectation; to frustrate or disappoint; as, his hopes were deceived. NWAD DECEIVE.7

4. To take from; to rob. NWAD DECEIVE.8

Plant fruit trees in large borders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. NWAD DECEIVE.9

DECEIVED, pp. Misled; led into error; beguiled; cheated; deluded. NWAD DECEIVED.1

DECEIVER, n. One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor. NWAD DECEIVER.1

I shall seem to my father as a deceiver. Genesis 27:12. NWAD DECEIVER.2

DECEIVING, ppr. Misleading; ensnaring; beguiling; cheating. NWAD DECEIVING.1

DECEMBER, n. [L. december, from decem, ten; this being the tenth month among the early Romans, who began the year in March.] NWAD DECEMBER.1

The last month in the year, in which the sun enters the tropic of Capricorn, and makes the winter solstice. NWAD DECEMBER.2

DECEMDENTATE, a. [L. decem, ten, and dentatus, toothed.] Having ten points or teeth. NWAD DECEMDENTATE.1