DETERIORATING — DEVIRGINATE NWAD DETERIORATING.1

DETERIORATING, ppr. Becoming worse or inferior in quality. NWAD DETERIORATING.1

DETERIORATION, n. A growing or making worse; the state of growing worse. NWAD DETERIORATION.1

DETERIORITY, n. Worse sate or quality; as deteriority of diet. NWAD DETERIORITY.1

DETERMENT, n. [See Deter.] The act of deterring; the cause of deterring; that which deters. NWAD DETERMENT.1

DETERMINABLE, a. [See Determine.] NWAD DETERMINABLE.1

1. That may be decided with certainty. NWAD DETERMINABLE.2

2. That may end or be determined. NWAD DETERMINABLE.3

DETERMINATE, a. [L.] NWAD DETERMINATE.1

1. Limited; fixed; definite; as a determinate quantity of matter. NWAD DETERMINATE.2

2. Established; settled; positive; as a determinate rule or order. NWAD DETERMINATE.3

The determinate counsel of God. Acts 2:23. NWAD DETERMINATE.4

3. Decisive; conclusive; as a determinate resolution or judgment. NWAD DETERMINATE.5

4. Resolved on. NWAD DETERMINATE.6

5. Fixed; resolute. NWAD DETERMINATE.7

DETERMINATE, v.t. To limit. [Not used. See Determine.] NWAD DETERMINATE.8

DETERMINATELY, adv. NWAD DETERMINATELY.1

1. With certainty. NWAD DETERMINATELY.2

The principles of religion are determinately true or false. NWAD DETERMINATELY.3

2. Resolutely; with fixed resolve. [Unusual.] NWAD DETERMINATELY.4

DETERMINATENESS, n. The state of being determinate, certain, or precise. NWAD DETERMINATENESS.1

DETERMINATION, n. NWAD DETERMINATION.1

1. The act of determining or deciding. NWAD DETERMINATION.2

2. Decision of a question in the mind; firm resolution; settled purpose; as, they have acquainted me with their determination. NWAD DETERMINATION.3

3. Judicial decision; the ending of a controversy or suit by the judgment of a court. Justice is promoted by a speedy determination of causes, civil and criminal. NWAD DETERMINATION.4

4. Absolute direction to a certain end. NWAD DETERMINATION.5

Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will to the greatest apparent good. NWAD DETERMINATION.6

5. An ending; a putting an end to; as the determination of a will. NWAD DETERMINATION.7

DETERMINATIVE, a. NWAD DETERMINATIVE.1

1. That uncontrollably directs to a certain end. NWAD DETERMINATIVE.2

The determinative power of a just cause. NWAD DETERMINATIVE.3

2. Limiting; that limits or bounds; as, a word may be determinative and limit the subject. NWAD DETERMINATIVE.4

DETERMINATOR, n. One who determines. NWAD DETERMINATOR.1

DETERMINE, v.t. [L., to bound; a boundary or limit. Gr. See Term.] NWAD DETERMINE.1

1. To end; particularly, to end by the decision or conclusion of a cause, or of a doubtful or controverted point; applicable to the decisions of the mind, or to judicial decisions. We say, I had determined this question in my own mind; the court has determined the cause. NWAD DETERMINE.2

2. To end and fix; to settle ultimately; as, this event determined his fate. NWAD DETERMINE.3

3. To fix on; to settle or establish; as, to determine the proper season for planting seeds. NWAD DETERMINE.4

God--hath determined the times before appointed. Acts 17:26. NWAD DETERMINE.5

4. To end; to limit; to bound; to confine. Yonder hill determines our view. Knowledge is determined by the sight. NWAD DETERMINE.6

5. To give a direction to; to influence the choice; that is, to limit to a particular purpose or direction; as, this circumstance determined him to the study of law. Also, to give a direction to material bodies in their course; as, impulse may determine a moving body to this or that point. NWAD DETERMINE.7

6. To resolve, that is, to end or settle a point in the mind, as in Definition first. NWAD DETERMINE.8

I determined this with myself. 2 Corinthians 2:1. NWAD DETERMINE.9

Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus. Acts 20:16. NWAD DETERMINE.10

7. To destroy. [Not used.] NWAD DETERMINE.11

8. To put an end to; as, to determine a will. NWAD DETERMINE.12

9. To settle or ascertain, as something uncertain. NWAD DETERMINE.13

The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God. NWAD DETERMINE.14

DETERMINE, v.i. NWAD DETERMINE.15

1. To resolve; to conclude; to come to a decision. NWAD DETERMINE.16

He shall pay as the judges determine. Exodus 21. NWAD DETERMINE.17

It is indifferent how the learned shall determine concerning this matter. NWAD DETERMINE.18

2. To end; to terminate. The danger determined by the death of the conspirators. Revolutions often determine in setting up tyranny at home, or in conquest from abroad. NWAD DETERMINE.19

Some estates may determine, on future contingencies. NWAD DETERMINE.20

DETERMINED, pp. NWAD DETERMINED.1

1. Ended; concluded; decided; limited; fixed; settled; resolved; directed. NWAD DETERMINED.2

2. a. Having a firm or fixed purpose, as a determined man; or manifesting a firm resolution, as a determined countenance. NWAD DETERMINED.3

DETERMINING, ppr. Ending; deciding; fixing; settling; resolving; limiting; directing. NWAD DETERMINING.1

DETERRATION, n. [L., de and terra, earth.] The uncovering of any thing which is buried or covered with earth; a taking from out of the earth. NWAD DETERRATION.1

DETERRED, pp. [See Deter.] Discouraged or prevented from proceeding or acting, by fear, difficulty or danger. NWAD DETERRED.1

DETERRING, pp. NWAD DETERRING.1

1. Discouraging or influencing not to proceed or act, by fear, difficulty, danger, or prospect of evil. NWAD DETERRING.2

2. a. Discouraging; frightening. NWAD DETERRING.3

DETERSION, n. [L. See Deterge.] The act of cleansing, as a sore. NWAD DETERSION.1

DETERSIVE, a. [See Deterge.] Cleansing; having power to cleanse from offending matter. NWAD DETERSIVE.1

DETERSIVE, n. A medicine which has the power of cleansing ulcers, or carrying off foul matter. NWAD DETERSIVE.2

DETEST, v.t. [L., to affirm or bear witness. The primary sense of testor is to set, throw or thrust. To detest is to thrust away.] To abhor; to abominate; to hate extremely; as, to detest crimes or meanness. NWAD DETEST.1

DETESTABLE, a. Extremely hateful; abominable; very odious; deserving abhorrence. NWAD DETESTABLE.1

Thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things. Ezekiel 5:11. NWAD DETESTABLE.2

DETESTABLENESS, n. Extreme hatefulness. NWAD DETESTABLENESS.1

DETESTABLY, adv. Very hatefully; abominably. NWAD DETESTABLY.1

DETESTATION, n. Extreme hatred; abhorrence; with of. The good man entertains uniformly a detestation of sin. NWAD DETESTATION.1

DETESTED, pp. Hated extremely; abhorred. NWAD DETESTED.1

DETESTER, n. One who abhors. NWAD DETESTER.1

DETESTING, ppr. Hating extremely; abhorring; abominating. NWAD DETESTING.1

DETHRONE, v.t. [L.] NWAD DETHRONE.1

1. To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of royal authority and dignity. NWAD DETHRONE.2

2. To divest of rule or power, or of supreme power. NWAD DETHRONE.3

The protector was dethroned. NWAD DETHRONE.4

DETHRONED, pp. Removed from a throne; deposed. NWAD DETHRONED.1

DETHRONEMENT, n. Removal from a throne; deposition of a king, emperor or prince. NWAD DETHRONEMENT.1

DETHRONER, n. One who dethrones. NWAD DETHRONER.1

DETHRONING, ppr. Driving from a throne; depriving of regal power. NWAD DETHRONING.1

DETINUE, n. In law, a writ of detinue is one that lies against him who wrongfully detains goods or chattels delivered to him, or in his possession. This writ lies for a thing certain and valuable, as for a horse, cow, sheep, plate, cloth, etc., to recover the thing itself or damages for the detainer. NWAD DETINUE.1

DETONATE, v.t. [L., to thunder.] In chemistry, to cause to explode; to burn or inflame with a sudden report. NWAD DETONATE.1

DETONATE, v.i. To explode; to burn with a sudden report. Niter detonates with sulphur. NWAD DETONATE.2

DETONATED, pp. Exploded; burnt with explosion. NWAD DETONATED.1

DETONATING, ppr. Exploding; inflaming with a sudden report. NWAD DETONATING.1

DETONATION, n. An explosion or sudden report made by the inflammation of certain combustible bodies, as fulminating gold. Detonation is not decrepitation. NWAD DETONATION.1

DETONIZATION, n. The acct of exploding, as certain combustible bodies. NWAD DETONIZATION.1

DETONIZE, v.t. [See Detonate.] To cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to calcine with detonation. NWAD DETONIZE.1

DETONIZE, v.i. To explode; to burn with a sudden report. NWAD DETONIZE.2

This precipitate-detonizes with a considerable noise. NWAD DETONIZE.3

DETONIZED, pp. Exploded, as a combustible body. NWAD DETONIZED.1

DETONIZING, ppr. Exploding with a sudden report. NWAD DETONIZING.1

DETORSION, n. A turning or wresting; perversion. NWAD DETORSION.1

DETORT, v.t. [L., to twist.] To twist; to wrest; to pervert; to turn from the original or plain meaning. NWAD DETORT.1

DETORTED, pp. Twisted; wrested; perverted. NWAD DETORTED.1

DETORTING, ppr. Wresting; perverting. NWAD DETORTING.1

DETOUR, n. A turning; a circuitous way. NWAD DETOUR.1

DETRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See Draw and Drag.] NWAD DETRACT.1

1. Literally, to draw from. Hence, to take away from reputation or merit, through envy, malice or other motive; hence, to detract from, is to lessen or depreciate reputation or worth; to derogate from. NWAD DETRACT.2

Never circulate reports that detract from the reputation or honor of your neighbor, without obvious necessity to justify the act. NWAD DETRACT.3

2. To take away; to withdraw, in a literal sense. NWAD DETRACT.4

DETRACTION, n. [L.] The act of taking something from the reputation or worth of another, with the view to lessen him in estimation; censure; a lessening of worth; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice. Detraction may consist in representing merit, as less than it really is; or in the imputation of faults, vices or crimes, which impair reputation; and if such imputation is false, it is slander or defamation. NWAD DETRACTION.1

DETRACTIOUS, a. Containing detraction; lessening reputation. [Not in use.] NWAD DETRACTIOUS.1

DETRACTIVE, a. Having the quality or tendency to lessen the worth or estimation. NWAD DETRACTIVE.1

DETRACTOR, n. One who takes away or impairs the reputation of another injuriously; one who attempts to lessen the worth or honor of another. NWAD DETRACTOR.1

DETRACTORY, a. Derogatory; defamatory by denial of desert; with from. NWAD DETRACTORY.1

DETRACTRESS, n. A female detractor; a censorious woman. NWAD DETRACTRESS.1

DETRECT, v.t. [L.] To refuse. [Not in use.] NWAD DETRECT.1

DETRIMENT, n. [L., worn off.] Loss; damage; injury; mischief; harm; diminution. We speak of detriment to interest, property, religion, morals, reputation, and to land or buildings. It is a word of very general application. NWAD DETRIMENT.1

DETRIMENTAL, a. Injurious; hurtful; causing loss or damage. NWAD DETRIMENTAL.1

A spirit of speculation may be detrimental to regular commerce. NWAD DETRIMENTAL.2

DETRITION, n. [L.] A wearing off. NWAD DETRITION.1

DETRITUS, n. [L., worn; to wear.] In geology, a mass of substances worn off or detached from solid bodies by attrition; as diluvial detritus. NWAD DETRITUS.1

DETRUDE, v.t. [L., to thrust.] To thrust down; to push down with force. NWAD DETRUDE.1

DETRUDED, pp. Thrust or forced down. NWAD DETRUDED.1

DETRUDING, ppr. Thrusting or forcing down. NWAD DETRUDING.1

DETRUNCATE, v.t. [L., to cut shorter; cut short. See Trench.] To cut off; to lop; to shorten by cutting. NWAD DETRUNCATE.1

DETRUNCATION, n. The act of cutting off. NWAD DETRUNCATION.1

DETRUSION, n. s as z. [See Detrude.] The act of thrusting or driving down. NWAD DETRUSION.1

DETURPATE, v.t. [L.] To defile. [Little used.] NWAD DETURPATE.1

DEUCE, n. Two; a card with two spots; a die with two spots; a term used in gaming. NWAD DEUCE.1

DEUCE, n. A demon. [See Duse.] NWAD DEUCE.2

DEUTEROGAMIST, n. [infra.] One who marries the second time. NWAD DEUTEROGAMIST.1

DEUTEROGAMY, n. [Gr., second; marriage.] A second marriage after the death of the first husband or wife. NWAD DEUTEROGAMY.1

DEUTERONOMY, n. [Gr., second; law.] The second law, or second giving of the law by Moses; the name given to the fifth book of the Pentateuch. NWAD DEUTERONOMY.1

DEUTOXYD, n. [Gr., second; strictly.] In chemistry, a substance oxydized in the second degree. NWAD DEUTOXYD.1

DEVAPORATION, n. [L.] The change of vapor into water, as in the generation of rain. NWAD DEVAPORATION.1

DEVAST, v.t. [L.] To lay waste; to plunder. [Not in use.] NWAD DEVAST.1

DEVASTATE, v.t. [L., to waste. See Waste.] To lay waste; to waste; to ravage; to desolate; to destroy improvements. NWAD DEVASTATE.1

DEVASTATED, pp. Laid waste; ravaged. NWAD DEVASTATED.1

DEVASTATING, ppr. Laying waste; desolating. NWAD DEVASTATING.1

DEVASTATION, n. [L.] NWAD DEVASTATION.1

1. Waste; ravage; desolation; destruction of works of art and natural productions which are necessary or useful to man; havock; as by armies, fire, flood, etc. NWAD DEVASTATION.2

2. IN law, waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor, or administrator. NWAD DEVASTATION.3

DEVELOP, v.t. NWAD DEVELOP.1

1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice. NWAD DEVELOP.2

The General began to develop the plan of his operations. NWAD DEVELOP.3

These serve to develop its tenets. NWAD DEVELOP.4

2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot. NWAD DEVELOP.5

DEVELOPED, pp. Unfolded; laid open; unraveled. NWAD DEVELOPED.1

DEVELOPING, ppr. Unfolding; disclosing; unraveling. NWAD DEVELOPING.1

DEVELOPMENT, n. NWAD DEVELOPMENT.1

1. An unfolding; the discovering of something secret or withheld from the knowledge of others; disclosure; full exhibition. NWAD DEVELOPMENT.2

2. The unraveling of a plot. NWAD DEVELOPMENT.3

DEVEST, v.t. [L., a vest, a garment. Generally written divest.] NWAD DEVEST.1

1. To strip; to deprive of clothing or arms; to take off. NWAD DEVEST.2

2. To deprive; to take away; as, to devest a man or nation of rights. [See Divest.] NWAD DEVEST.3

3. To free from; to disengage. NWAD DEVEST.4

4. In law, to alienate, as title or right. NWAD DEVEST.5

DEVEST, v.i. In law, to be lost or alienated, as a title or an estate. NWAD DEVEST.6

[This word is generally written divest, except in the latter and legal sense.] NWAD DEVEST.7

DEVESTED, pp. Stripped of clothes; deprived; freed from; alienated or lost, as title. NWAD DEVESTED.1

DEVESTING, ppr. Stripping of clothes; depriving; freeing from; alienating. NWAD DEVESTING.1

DEVEX, a. [L.] Bending down. [Not in use.] NWAD DEVEX.1

DEVEXITY, n. [L., to carry.] A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward. NWAD DEVEXITY.1

DEVIATE, v.i. [L., way.] NWAD DEVIATE.1

1. To turn aside or wander from the common or right way, course or line, either in a literal or figurative sense; as, to deviate from the common track or path, or from a true course. NWAD DEVIATE.2

There nature deviates, and here wanders will. NWAD DEVIATE.3

2. To stray from the path of duty; to wander, in a moral sense; to err; to sin. NWAD DEVIATE.4

DEVIATION, n. NWAD DEVIATION.1

1. A wandering or turning aside from the right way, course or line. NWAD DEVIATION.2

2. Variation from a common or established rule, or from analogy. NWAD DEVIATION.3

3. A wandering from the path of duty; want of conformity to the rules prescribed by God; error; sin; obliquity of conduct. NWAD DEVIATION.4

4. In commerce, the voluntary departure of a ship, without necessity, from the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured. This discharges the underwriters from their responsibility. NWAD DEVIATION.5

DEVICE, n. [L.] NWAD DEVICE.1

1. That which is formed by design, or invented; scheme; artificial contrivance; stratagem; project; sometimes in a good sense; more generally in a bad sense, as artifices are usually employed for bad purposes. NWAD DEVICE.2

In a good sense: NWAD DEVICE.3

His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. Jeremiah 51:11. NWAD DEVICE.4

In a bad sense: NWAD DEVICE.5

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5:12. NWAD DEVICE.6

They imagined a mischievous device. Psalm 21:11. NWAD DEVICE.7

2. An emblem intended to represent a family, person, action or quality, with a suitable motto; used in painting, sculpture and heraldry. It consists in a metaphorical similitude between the things representing and represented, as the figure of a plow representing agriculture. NWAD DEVICE.8

Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields. NWAD DEVICE.9

3. Invention; genius; faculty of devising; as a man of noble device. NWAD DEVICE.10

4. A spectacle or show. NWAD DEVICE.11

DEVICEFUL, a. Full of devices; inventive. NWAD DEVICEFUL.1

DEVICEFULLY, adv. In a manner curiously contrived. NWAD DEVICEFULLY.1

DEVIL, n. Devl. [L., to calumniate.] NWAD DEVIL.1

1. In the Christian theology, an evil spirit or being; a fallen angel, expelled from heaven for rebellion against God; the chief of the apostate angels; the implacable enemy and tempter of the human race. In the New Testament, the word is frequently and erroneously used for demon. NWAD DEVIL.2

2. A very wicked person, and in ludicrous language, an great evil. In profane language, it is an expletive expressing wonder, vexation, etc. NWAD DEVIL.3

3. An idol, or false god. Leviticus 17:7; 2 Chronicles 11:15. NWAD DEVIL.4

DEVILING, n. A young devil. [Not in use.] NWAD DEVILING.1

DEVILISH, a. NWAD DEVILISH.1

1. Partaking of the qualities of the devil; diabolical; very evil and mischievous; malicious; as a devilish scheme; devilish wickedness. NWAD DEVILISH.2

2. Having communication with the devil; pertaining to the devil. NWAD DEVILISH.3

3. Excessive; enormous; in a vulgar and ludicrous sense; as a devilish cheat. NWAD DEVILISH.4

DEVILISHLY, adv. NWAD DEVILISHLY.1

1. In a manner suiting the devil; diabolically; wickedly. NWAD DEVILISHLY.2

2. Greatly; excessively; in a vulgar sense. NWAD DEVILISHLY.3

DEVILISHNESS, n. The qualities of the devil. NWAD DEVILISHNESS.1

DEVILISM, n. The state of devils. [Not used.] NWAD DEVILISM.1

DEVILIZE, v.t. To place among devils. [Not used.] NWAD DEVILIZE.1

DEVILKIN, n. A little devil. NWAD DEVILKIN.1

DEVILSHIP, n. The character of a devil. NWAD DEVILSHIP.1

DEVIOUS, a. [L., way.] NWAD DEVIOUS.1

1. Out of the common way or track; as a devious course. NWAD DEVIOUS.2

2. Wandering; roving; rambling. NWAD DEVIOUS.3

To bless the wildly devious morning walk. NWAD DEVIOUS.4

3. Erring; going astray from rectitude or the divine precepts. NWAD DEVIOUS.5

One devious step at first may lead into a course of habitual vice. NWAD DEVIOUS.6

DEVIRGINATE, v.t. [Low L.] To deflour. NWAD DEVIRGINATE.1