Quotes: D

Dab

One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index.

A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint.

A scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak.

Dabble

Where the duck dabbles 'mid the rustling sedge.

During the first year at Dumfries, Burns for the first time began to dabble in politics.

Dad

I was never so bethumped with words, Since I first called my brother's father dad.

Dade

Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro.

No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.

Daff

Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child.

Daffodil

With damask roses and daffadillies set.

Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.

A college gown That clad her like an April daffodilly.

And chance-sown daffodil.

Daft

Let us think no more of this daft business

Dag

The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.

A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.

Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.

Daggle

The warrior's very plume, I say, Was daggled by the dashing spray.

Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.

Dagon

This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol.

They brought it into the house of Dagon.

Daily

Give us this day our daily bread.

Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.

Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal sphere.

Daimio

The daimios, or territorial nobles, resided in Yedo and were divided into four classes.

Daint

To cherish him with diets daint.

Daintiness

The daintiness and niceness of our captains

More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish.

The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands,

Dainty

I ne told no deyntee of her love.

That precious nectar may the taste renew Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost.

These delicacies I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers, Walks and the melody of birds.

[A table] furnished plenteously with bread, And dainties, remnants of the last regale.

Full many a deynté horse had he in stable.

Dainty bits Make rich the ribs.

Those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy.

I would be the girdle. About her dainty, dainty waist.

Thew were a fine and dainty people.

And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, But shift away.

Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, She, I'll swear, hath corns.

Dairy

What stores my dairies and my folds contain.

Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter.

Daisied

The grass all deep and daisied.

Dale

Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend.

Dalles

The place below, where the compressed river wound like a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the far-famed Dalles of the Columbia.

Dalliance

Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too much the rein.

O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife!

Dally

We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.

We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.

Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.

Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.

Dallying off the time with often skirmishes.

Dam

Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam.

The dam runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went.

I'll have the current in this place dammed up.

A weight of earth that dams in the water.

The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards.

Damage

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage.

Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.

He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.

Damageable

That it be not damageable unto your royal majesty.

Damask

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek.

Mingled metal damasked o'er with gold.

On the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers.

Damaskeen

Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving.

Damaskin

No old Toledo blades or damaskins.

Dame

Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.

In the dame's classes at the village school.

Damn

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.

Damnable

A creature unprepared unmeet for death, And to transport him in the mind he is, Were damnable.

Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.

Damnableness

The damnableness of this most execrable impiety.

Damnation

How can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation.

The deep damnation of his taking-off.

Damned

But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.

Damnify

This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.

Damp

Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.

Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.

It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.

O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.

All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp.

Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.

How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!

The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.

Dampen

In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.

damper

Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.

Damsel

With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shun.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Camelot.

Dan

Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.

What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.

Dance

Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.

Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your daughter?

Then, 'tis time to dance off.

More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw.

Shadows in the glassy waters dance.

Where rivulets dance their wayward round.

To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind.

Thy grandsire loved thee well; Many a time he danced thee on his knee.

A man of his place, and so near our favor, To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.

Of remedies of love she knew parchance For of that art she couth the olde dance.

Dandiprat

Henry VII. stamped a small coin called dandiprats.

Dandle

Ye shall be dandled . . . upon her knees.

They have put me in a silk gown and gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus.

The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence.

Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued.

Dang

Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage.

Danger

In dangerhad he . . . the young girls.

You stand within his danger, do you not?

Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.

Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.

Dangerous

Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous.

It is dangerous to assert a negative.

If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods.

My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous.

Dangle

He'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.

From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon.

The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are well inclined to pull down the present establishment.

And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume.

Daniel

A Daniel come to judgment.

Dank

Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.

Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.

Dankish

In a dark and dankish vault at home.

Dansker

Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris.

Dap

To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper.

Dapper

He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man.

The dapper ditties that I wont devise.

Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts.

Dapple

He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples.

Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.

His steed was all dapple-gray.

O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.

The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.

The dappled pink and blushing rose.

Darbies

Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies.

Dare

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not.

Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion.

The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why.

The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead).

You know one dare not discover you.

The fellow dares not deceive me.

Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep.

What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?

To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.

Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover.

It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise.

Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers.

Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Cæsar.

For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman.

Dare-devil

A humorous dare-devil -- the very man To suit my prpose.

Dark

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

In the dark and silent grave.

The dark problems of existence.

What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.

What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?

The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want light who taught the world to see.

The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.

Left him at large to his own dark designs.

More dark and dark our woes.

A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.

There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.

Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.

Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.

Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.

The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.

Darken

They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened.

So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth of the feast.

I must not think there are Evils enough to darken all his goodness.

Darkling

So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.

As the wakeful bird Sings darkling.

His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me.

Darkly

What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.

so softly dark and darkly pure.

Looking darkly at the clerguman.

Darkness

And darkness was upon the face of the deep.

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light.

Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds.

A day of clouds and of thick darkness.

Darksome

He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold.

darling

And can do naught but wail her darling's loss.

Darn

He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings.

Darraign

Darrain your battle, for they are at hand.

Dart

And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom.

The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?

Dartle

My star that dartles the red and the blue.

Dash

If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound.

Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces.

To perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car.

I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.

The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night.

[He] dashed through thick and thin.

On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.

Innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

She takes upon her bravely at first dash.

Dashing

The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless.

Dashingly

A dashingly dressed gentleman.

Dashism

He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed.

Dastard

You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.

Date

And bonds without a date, they say, are void.

He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.

What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.

Good luck prolonged hath thy date.

Through his life's whole date.

The letter is dated at Philadephia.

You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.

In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them.

The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.

dateable

a concrete and dateable happening

Datum

Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote.

Daub

She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.

If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece.

A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over.

So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.

I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.

Let him be daubed with lace.

His conscience . . . will not daub nor flatter.

Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture? . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord.

Daubery

She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.

Daughter

This woman, being a daughter of Abraham.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land.

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters.

Daughter, be of good comfort.

Daughterly

Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him.

Daunt

Some presences daunt and discourage us.

dauntless

Dauntless he rose, and to the fight returned.

Davenport

A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing.

Davy Jones

This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.

Daw

The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws The whole assembly of his fellow daws.

Dawdle

Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.

We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.

Dawn

In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher.

When life awakes, and dawns at every line.

Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid.

And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day.

These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul.

Day

A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day.

If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must with patience all the terms attend.

The field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

His name struck fear, his conduct won the day.

day-star

A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts.

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

Daydream

Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over.

Daysman

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us.

dayspring

The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us.

Daze

While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.

Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world.

He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest.

Dazzle

Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright.

An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.

Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design.

An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle.

I dare not trust these eyes; They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.

Débouché

The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress.

Dædal

Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms.

The dædal hand of Nature.

The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers.

Dead

The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.

Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.

I had them a dead bargain.

[In golf], a ball is said to lie dead when it lies so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.

I deme thee, thou must algate be dead.

I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.

When the drum beat at dead of night.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead.

Heaven's stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.

So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway.

dead-on

She avoids big scenes . . . preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue.

Dead-pay

O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays.

Deaden

As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

Deadish

The lips put on a deadish paleness.

deadlock

Things are at a deadlock.

The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two.

deadly

Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly.

The image of a deadly man.

The groanings of a deadly wounded man.

Deaf

Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.

O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.

A deaf murmur through the squadron went.

If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught.

Deafen

Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries.

Deal

Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour.

As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power.

She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.

The deal, the shuffle, and the cut.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?

And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.

The nightly mallet deals resounding blows.

Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt.

They buy and sell, they deal and traffic.

This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels.

Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.

If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true.

The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, “dealt with him” on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out.

Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.

Deanery

Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes.

Deanship

I dont't value your deanship a straw.

Dear

The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.

Neither count I my life dear unto myself.

And the last joy was dearer than the rest.

Dear as remember'd kisses after death.

[I'll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.

His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall.

In our dear peril.

Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day.

That kiss I carried from thee, dear.

If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear.

Dearly

He buys his mistress dearly with his throne.

Dearness

The dearness of corn.

The dearness of friendship.

Dearth

There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt.

He with her press'd, she faint with dearth.

Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination.

Death

The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant.

A death that I abhor.

Let me die the death of the righteous.

Swiftly flies the feathered death.

He caught his death the last county sessions.

Death! great proprietor of all.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death.

Not to suffer a man of death to live.

To be carnally minded is death.

It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines.

And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death.

The death bell thrice was heard to ring.

And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night.

At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts.

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?

Deathbed

That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described.

Deathblow

The deathblow of my hope.

Deathful

These eyes behold The deathful scene.

The deathless gods and deathful earth.

Deathlike

A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose.

Death's-head

I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth.

Deathwatch

She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches.

I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat.

Debar

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed Labor, as to debar us when we need Refreshment.

Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life.

Debarkation

The debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers.

Debase

The coin which was adulterated and debased.

It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes.

And to debase the sons, exalts the sires.

Debate

Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.

A wise council . . . that did debate this business.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself.

Well could he tourney and in lists debate.

He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.

On the day of the Trinity next ensuing was a great debate . . . and in that murder there were slain . . . fourscore.

But question fierce and proud reply Gave signal soon of dire debate.

Heard, noted, answer'd, as in full debate.

Statutes and edicts concerning this debate.

Debatement

A serious question and debatement with myself.

Debater

Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters.

Debauch

Learning not debauched by ambition.

A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.

Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.

The first physicians by debauch were made.

Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick.

Debauchery

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

Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance.

Debilitate

Various ails debilitate the mind.

The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort.

Debility

The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death.

Debonair

Was never prince so meek and debonair.

Debouch

Battalions debouching on the plain.

Debruised

The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where debruised in token of his illegitimate birth.

Debt

Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt.

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

Debted

I stand debted to this gentleman.

Debtor

[I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first.

In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor.

Debtors for our lives to you.

Decad

Averill was a decad and a half his elder.

Decade

During this notable decade of years.

Decadent

The decadents and æsthetes, and certain types of realists.

The business men of a great State allow their State to be represented in Congress by “decadents”.

Decamp

The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern.

Decanal

His rectorial as well as decanal residence.

Decard

You have cast those by, decarded them.

Decay

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

Infirmity, that decays the wise.

Perhaps my God, though he be far before, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more -- May strengthen my decays.

His [Johnson's] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay.

Which has caused the decay of the consonants to follow somewhat different laws.

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

Decease

His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase.

She's dead, deceased, she's dead.

When our summers have deceased.

Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.

Deceit

Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit.

Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

Deceitful

Harboring foul deceitful thoughts.

Deceivable

The fraud of deceivable traditions.

Blind, and thereby deceivable.

Deceivableness

With all deceivableness of unrighteousness.

Deceive

Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.

What can 'scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart?

These occupations oftentimes deceived The listless hour.

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

Deceiver

The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Decembrist

He recalls the history of the decembrists . . . that gallant band of revolutionists.

Decency

Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.

Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense.

The external decencies of worship.

Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions.

decent

Before his decent steps.

A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn.

By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed.

A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs.

Deception

There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception.

There was of course room for vast deception.

Deceptious

As if those organs had deceptious functions.

Deceptive

Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes.

Decide

Our seat denies us traffic here; The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.

So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.

Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?

Decipher

You are both deciphered, . . . For villains.

Decision

The decision of some dispute.

Decisive

A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character.

Decitizenize

We have no law -- as the French have -- to decitizenize a citizen.

Deck

To deck with clouds the uncolored sky.

Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency.

And deck my body in gay ornaments.

The dew with spangles decked the ground.

The king was slyly fingered from the deck.

Who . . . hath such trinkets Ready in the deck.

Declaim

Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.

Declamation

The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation.

Declaration

Declarations of mercy and love . . . in the Gospel.

In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.

Declarative

The “vox populi,” so declarative on the same side.

Declaratively

The priest shall expiate it, that is, declaratively.

Declare

This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son.

The heavens declare the glory of God.

I the Lord . . . declare things that are right.

Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait, And then come smiling, and declare for fate.

Declension

The declension of the land from that place to the sea.

Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension.

Declensional

Declensional and syntactical forms.

Declination

Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay.

The declination of atoms in their descent.

Every declination and violation of the rules.

The queen's declination from marriage.

Decline

He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family.

Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries.

The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly.

That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin.

And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines.

Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

In melancholy deep, with head declined.

And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale.

He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.

Could I Decline this dreadful hour?

After the first declining of a noun and a verb.

Their fathers lived in the decline of literature.

Decliner

A studious decliner of honors.

Declivity

Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters.

Decoction

In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom.

If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant.

In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping.

decollate

The decollated head of St. John the Baptist.

Decolling

By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king.

Decomposite

Decomposites of three metals or more.

Decompound

It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts.

Decorate

Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms.

decoration

The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration.

decore

To decore and beautify the house of God.

Decorous

A decorous pretext the war.

Decorum

Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station.

If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom.

Decoy

Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy.

E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.

Decrease

He must increase, but I must decrease.

The olive leaf, which certainly them told The flood decreased.

Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye; Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly.

That might decrease their present store.

Decreaseless

It [the river] flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour.

Decree

There went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.

Father eternal! thine is to decree; Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will.

Decrement

Twit me with the decrements of my pendants.

Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement.

Decrepit

Already decrepit with premature old age.

Decretive

The will of God is either decretive or perceptive.

Decretory

The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence.

Decry

For small errors they whole plays decry.

Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other.

Decumbence

The ancient manner of decumbency.

Decumbent

The decumbent portraiture of a woman.

Dedicate

Vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, . . . which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. . . . But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.

The profession of a soldier, to which he had dedicated himself.

He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley.

Deduce

He should hither deduce a colony.

O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times?

Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.

See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.

Deducible

All properties of a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space.

As if God [were] deducible to human imbecility.

Deduct

A people deducted out of the city of Philippos.

Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.

Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops.

We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy.

Deductible

Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him.

Deduction

The deduction of one language from another.

This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction.

Make fair deductions; see to what they mount.

Deductive

All knowledge of causes is deductive.

Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process.

Deed

And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?

We receive the due reward of our deeds.

Would serve his kind in deed and word.

Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn.

To be, both will and deed, created free.

Deedless

Deedless in his tongue.

Deem

Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree.

For never can I deem him less him less than god.

And deemest thou as those who pore, With aged eyes, short way before?

Deep

The water where the brook is deep.

Shadowing squadrons deep.

Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook.

Speculations high or deep.

A question deep almost as the mystery of life.

O Lord, . . . thy thoughts are very deep.

Deep clerks she dumbs.

An attitude of deep respect.

The bass of heaven's deep organ.

The ways in that vale were very deep.

Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself.

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs.

The hollow deep of hell resounded.

Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound.

Thy judgments are a great deep.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk.

Deepen

It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber.

You must deepen your colors.

Deepens the murmur of the falling floods.

His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun.

Deeply

He had deeply offended both his nobles and people.

He sighed deeply in his spirit.

The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries.

Deepness

Because they had no deepness of earth.

Deer

Mice and rats, and such small deer.

The camel, that great deer.

Deface

So by false learning is good sense defaced.

[Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion.

For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].

Defailance

Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance.

Defalcate

To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from them [the estimates].

Defame

My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.

Rebecca is . . . defamed of sorcery practiced on the person of a noble knight.

Default

And pardon craved for his so rash default.

Regardless of our merit or default.

Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones.

That he gainst courtesy so foully did default.

What they have defaulted towards him as no king.

Defaulting unnecessary and partial discourses.

Defeasance

After his foes' defeasance.

Defeat

His unkindness may defeat my life.

He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.

The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession.

In one instance he defeated his own purpose.

Sharp reasons to defeat the law.

Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made.

Defeatured

Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described.

Defecate

Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.

To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber.

We defecate the notion from materiality.

Defecated from all the impurities of sense.

Defect

Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.

Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- and every foe.

Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.

Defection

The general defection of the whole realm.

Defend

Th' other strove for to defend The force of Vulcan with his might and main.

Which God defend that I should wring from him.

The lord mayor craves aid . . . to defend the city.

God defend the right!

A village near it was defended by the river.

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it.

Leave not the faithful side That gave thee being, still shades thee and protects.

Defendant

With men of courage and with means defendant.

The rampiers and ditches which the defendants had cast up.

Defender

Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders.

Defendress

Defendress of the faith.

Defense

In cases of defense 't is best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems.

War would arise in defense of the right.

God, the widow's champion and defense.

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense.

A man of great defense.

By how much defense is better than no skill.

Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.

Better manned and more strongly defensed.

Defensive

A moat defensive to a house.

Wars preventive, upon just fears, are true defensives.

Defer

Defer the spoil of the city until night.

God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name.

Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure.

Worship deferred to the Virgin.

Hereupon the commissioners . . . deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.

The house, deferring to legal right, acquiesced.

Deference

Deference to the authority of thoughtful and sagacious men.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Deferent

Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds.

Deferment

My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment.

Defervescence

A defervescency in holy actions.

Defiance

A war without a just defiance made.

Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.

He breathed defiance to my ears.

Defiant

In attitude stern and defiant.

Deficience

Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no deficience found.

Deficiency

[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

Deficient

The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.

Defigure

These two stones as they are here defigured.

Defile

They that touch pitch will be defiled.

He is . . . among the greatest prelates of this age, however his character may be defiled by . . . dirty hands.

Defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt.

The husband murder'd and the wife defiled.

That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile therewith.

Defilement

Defilements of the flesh.

The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement.

Define

Rings . . . very distinct and well defined.

They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature.

Definite

Elements combine in definite proportions.

Definition

Definition being nothing but making another understand by words what the term defined stands for.

Definitive

A strict and definitive truth.

Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation.

Definitude

Definitude . . . is a knowledge of minute differences.

Deflagrability

The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter.

deflect

Sitting with their knees deflected under them.

At some part of the Azores, the needle deflecteth not, but lieth in the true meridian.

To deflect from the line of truth and reason.

Deflection

The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections.

Deflectionize

Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic.

Defloration

The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws.

deflour

He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him.

deflower

An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens.

If a man had deflowered a virgin.

Deform

Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world.

Above those passions that this world deform.

Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry-eyed behold?

Deformity

To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body.

Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.

Defraud

We have defrauded no man.

Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights.

Defray

For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much.

deft

Let me be deft and debonair.

The limping god, so deft at his new ministry.

Deftly

Thyself and office deftly show.

Defunct

The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near.

Defunction

After defunction of King Pharamond.

defy

I defy the surety and the bond.

For thee I have defied my constant mistress.

I once again Defy thee to the trial of mortal fight.

I defy the enemies of our constitution to show the contrary.

Degender

He degenereth into beastliness.

Degeneracy

Willful degeneracy from goodness.

Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery.

To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy.

Degenerate

Faint-hearted and degenerate king.

A degenerate and degraded state.

Degenerate from their ancient blood.

These degenerate days.

I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety.

Degeneration

Our degeneration and apostasy.

Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations.

Deglutition

The muscles employed in the act of deglutition.

Degradation

He saw many removes and degradations in all the other offices of which he had been possessed.

The . . . degradation of a needy man of letters.

Deplorable is the degradation of our nature.

Moments there frequently must be, when a sinner is sensible of the degradation of his state.

The development and degradation of the alphabetic forms can be traced.

The degradation of the species man is observed in some of its varieties.

Degrade

Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.

O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!

Yet time ennobles or degrades each line.

Her pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion.

Degraded

The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition.

Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons.

Degree

By ladders, or else by degree.

The degree of excellence which proclaims genius, is different in different times and different places.

The youth attained his bachelor's degree, and left the university.

In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law.

It has been said that Scotsmen . . . are . . . grave to a degree on occasions when races more favored by nature are gladsome to excess.

Dehort

The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief.

“Exhort” remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither “dissuade” nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us.

Deicide

Earth profaned, yet blessed, with deicide.

Deictically

When Christ spake it deictically.

Deify

He did again so extol and deify the pope.

By our own spirits are we deified.

Deign

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines.

Nor would we deign him burial of his men.

O deign to visit our forsaken seats.

Yet not Lord Cranstone deigned she greet.

Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see.

Him deyneth not to set his foot to ground.

Deistic

The deistical or antichristian scheme.

Deity

They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ.

To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt.

This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth.

Deject

Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.

Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.

Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind.

Dejection

Adoration implies submission and dejection.

What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring.

A dejection of appetite.

Delapse

Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip.

Delassation

Able to continue without delassation.

Delate

Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.

When the crime is delated or notorious.

As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine.

Delation

In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them.

Delay

Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.

The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.

My lord delayeth his coming.

Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.

The watery showers delay the raging wind.

There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten.

Delectable

Delectable both to behold and taste.

Delegacy

By way of delegacy or grand commission.

Delegate

The delegated administration of the law.

Delegated executive power.

The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative.

Delete

I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight.

Deletery

They [the Scriptures] are the only deletery of heresies.

Deletion

A total deletion of every person of the opposing party.

Delf

The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry.

Deliberate

Settled visage and deliberate word.

His enunciation was so deliberate.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Deliberation

Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation.

Deliberative

A consummate work of deliberative wisdom.

The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown.

Delicacy

What choice to choose for delicacy best.

You know your mother's delicacy in this point.

And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy?

That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England.

The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

He Rome brent for his delicacie.

Delicate

Dives, for his delicate life, to the devil went.

Haarlem is a very delicate town.

A delicate and tender prince.

There are some things too delicate and too sacred to be handled rudely without injury to truth.

With abstinence all delicates he sees.

All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than their neighbors, -- are only of the Corinth metal.

Delicious

Some delicious landscape.

One draught of spring's delicious air.

Were not his words delicious?

Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury.

Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay.

No spring, nor summer, on the mountain seen, Smiles with gay fruits or with delightful green.

Delict

Every regulation of the civil code necessarily implies a delict in the event of its violation.

Delight

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

A fool hath no delight in understanding.

Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight.

Inventions to delight the taste.

Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.

Love delights in praises.

I delight to do thy will, O my God.

Delightable

Many a spice delightable.

Delighted

If virtue no delighted beauty lack.

Delightsome

Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord.

Delilah

Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn.

Delineate

Adventurous to delineate nature's form.

Customs or habits delineated with great accuracy.

Delineation

Their softest delineations of female beauty.

Delinquency

The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be represented in the most glaring colors.

Delinquent

A delinquent ought to be cited in the place or jurisdiction where the delinquency was committed.

Deliquate

Dilapidating, or rather deliquating, his bishopric.

Deliquesce

In very moist air crystals of strontites deliquesce.

Delirate

An infatuating and delirating spirit in it.

Deliration

Deliration or alienation of the understanding.

Delirium

The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.

The delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament).

Delitescence

The delitescence of mental activities.

Delitescency

The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency.

Deliver

He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver.

Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.

The constables have delivered her over.

The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind.

Till he these words to him deliver might.

Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection.

Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears.

An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it.

She was delivered safe and soon.

Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant.

Wonderly deliver and great of strength.

Deliverance

He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives.

One death or one deliverance we will share.

I do desire deliverance from these officers.

Deliverly

Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly.

Delivery

Neater limbs and freer delivery.

Dell

In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.

Sweet doxies and dells.

Delph

Five nothings in five plates of delph.

Delude

To delude the nation by an airy phantom.

It deludes thy search.

Deluge

A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.

As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge.

After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.)

The deluged earth would useless grow.

At length corruption, like a general flood . . . Shall deluge all.

Delusion

And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.

Delusive

Delusive and unsubstantial ideas.

Delve

Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.

I can not delve him to the root.

Delve may I not: I shame to beg.

Which to that shady delve him brought at last.

The very tigers from their delves Look out.

Demagnetize

If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized.

Demand

This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.

I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.

The soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do?

The demand [is] by the word of the holy ones.

He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them.

In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and then the demand became immense.

Demarcation

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

Dematerialize

Dematerializing matter by stripping it of everything which . . . has distinguished matter.

Demean

[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.

They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.

Vile demean and usage bad.

With grave demean and solemn vanity.

You know How narrow our demeans are.

Demeanor

God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man.

His demeanor was singularly pleasing.

The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor.

Dementate

Arise, thou dementate sinner!

Demerge

The water in which it was demerged.

Demerit

By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation.

They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action.

Secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offense.

If I have demerited any love or thanks.

Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited.

Demise

After the demise of the Queen [of George II.], in 1737, they [drawing- rooms] were held but twice a week.

What honor Canst thou demise to any child of mine?

His soul is at his conception demised to him.

Demiss

He down descended like a most demiss And abject thrall.

Demission

Demission of sovereign authority.

Demissive

They pray with demissive eyelids.

Demit

They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train].

General Conway demitted his office.

Democrat

Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat.

Democratical

The democratical embassy was democratically received.

Demogorgon

Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon.

Demolish

I expected the fabric of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground.

Demon

The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.

That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.

demonetize

They [gold mohurs] have been completely demonetized by the [East India] Company.

Demoniac

Sarcastic, demoniacal laughter.

The demoniac in the gospel was sometimes cast into the fire.

Demonism

The established theology of the heathen world . . . rested upon the basis of demonism.

Demonocracy

A demonocracy of unclean spirits.

Demonstrable

The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry.

Demonstrably

Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause.

Demonstrate

We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction.

Demonstration

Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called “proofs;” and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration.

Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief?

Loyal demonstrations toward the prince.

Demonstrative

An argument necessary and demonstrative.

Demoralize

The demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime.

The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army.

Demur

Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp.

Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur.

From the popular assertion that he was the smartest man in the world Gell-Mann was not predisposed to demur.

The latter I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.

He demands a fee, And then demurs me with a vain delay.

All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, “Do; and we go snacks.”

Demure

Sober, steadfast, and demure.

Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.

A cat lay, and looked so demure, as if there had been neither life nor soul in her.

Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.

Demurely

They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably.

Demurrage

The claim for demurrage ceases as soon as the ship is cleared out and ready for sailing.

Demurral

The same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome.

Demy

He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called “scholars,” young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships.

Den

The sluggish salvages that den below.

Denationalize

Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port.

An expatriated, denationalized race.

Denaturalize

They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy.

Denay

That with great rage he stoutly doth denay.

Denial

You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient.

The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials.

Denier

My dukedom to a beggarly denier.

Denigrate

To denigrate the memory of Voltaire.

Denigration

The vigorous denigration of science.

Denize

There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard Hills.

Denizen

Denizens of their own free, independent state.

Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes.

As soon as denizened, they domineer.

There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds.

Denominate

Passions commonly denominating selfish.

Denomination

Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime.

Denominative

The least denominative part of time is a minute.

Denominator

This opinion that Aram . . . was the father and denomination of the Syrians in general.

Denotate

These terms denotate a longer time.

What things should be denotated and signified by the color.

Denotative

Proper names are preëminently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute.

Denote

The better to denote her to the doctor.

A general expression to denote wickedness of every sort.

Denounce

Denouncing wrath to come.

I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.

His look denounced desperate.

Denounced for a heretic.

To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar.

Denouncement

False is the reply of Cain, upon the denouncement of his curse.

Denouncer

Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate.

Dense

All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare.

To replace the cloudy barrier dense.

Dent

A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter.

The houses dented with bullets.

Dentation

How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation?

Dentilingual

The letters of this fourth, dentilingual or linguidental, class, viz., d, t, s, z, l, r.

Dentize

The old countess . . . did dentize twice or thrice.

Denunciate

To denunciate this new work.

Denunciation

Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage.

Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error.

Deny

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.

The falsehood of denying his opinion.

Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved.

Let him deny himself, and take up his cross.

Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.

Deodate

Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up.

Deordination

Excess of riot and deordination.

Depaint

And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see.

In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted.

Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint.

Depart

I will depart to mine own land.

Ere thou from hence depart.

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart.

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

The glory is departed from Israel.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.

Till death departed them, this life they lead.

And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three.

The chymists have a liquor called water of depart.

At my depart for France.

Your loss and his depart.

Department

Sudden departments from one extreme to another.

Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature.

Departure

No other remedy . . . but absolute departure.

Departure from this happy place.

The time of my departure is at hand.

His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

Any departure from a national standard.

Depasture

Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds.

A right to cut wood upon or departure land.

Depatriate

A subject born in any state May, if he please, depatriate.

Depauperate

Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain.

Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit.

Depeach

As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached.

Depectible

Some bodies are of a more depectible nature than oil.

Depeculation

Depeculation of the public treasure.

Depend

And ever-living lamps depend in rows.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition.

The truth of God's word dependeth not of the truth of the congregation.

The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds.

Heaven forming each on other to depend.

But if you 're rough, and use him like a dog, Depend upon it -- he 'll remain incog.

Dependence

The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another.

So dark and so intricate of purpose, without any dependence or order.

Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy.

Affectionate dependence on the Creator is the spiritual life of the soul.

Like a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough.

To go on now with my first dependence.

Dependency

Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other.

So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England.

This earth and its dependencies.

Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances.

Dependent

England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank.

A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their part as witnesses.

With all its circumstances and dependents.

Depict

His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber.

Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language.

Depicture

Several persons were depictured in caricature.

Deplorable

Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others.

Deplorate

A more deplorate estate.

Deplore

To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss.

As some sad turtle his lost love deplores.

Deploy

Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.

Deplume

On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather.

The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age.

Depone

Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference.

The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree.

Depopulate

Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city?

Whether the country be depopulating or not.

Depopulation

The desolation and depopulation [of St.Quentin] were now complete.

Deport

He told us he had been deported to Spain.

Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince.

Deportation

In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors.

Deportment

The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties.

Deporture

Stately port and majestical deporture.

Depose

Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose.

Additional mud deposed upon it.

A tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed.

To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands.

Depose him in the justice of his cause.

Then, seeing't was he that made you to despose, Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.

Deposit

The fear is deposited in conscience.

If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which I can not but deem an error.

The deposit already formed affording to the succeeding portion of the charged fluid a basis.

Depositary

I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries.

The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people.

Deposition

The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles.

The influence of princes upon the dispositions of their courts needs not the deposition of their examples, since it hath the authority of a known principle.

Depository

I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me.

Depot

The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom.

Depravation

To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation.

The depravation of his moral character destroyed his judgment.

Deprave

And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart.

Whose pride depraves each other better part.

deprecate

His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it.

Deprecation

Humble deprecation.

deprecatory

Humble and deprecatory letters.

Depreciate

Which . . . some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.

Depredate

It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.

Deprehend

The deprehended adulteress.Jer.

The motion . . . are to be deprehended by experience.

Depress

If the seal be depress or hollow.

Depression

In a great depression of spirit.

Deprivable

Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies.

Deprive

'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life.

God hath deprived her of wisdom.

It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself.

A minister deprived for inconformity.

Deprostrate

How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style.

Depth

Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in depth or height.

From you unclouded depth above.

The depth closed me round about.

Depthless

In clouds of depthless night.

Depurate

To depurate the mass of blood.

Depure

He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God.

Deputation

The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.

Say to great Cæsar this: In deputation I kiss his conquering hand.

Depute

There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

Some persons, deputed by a meeting.

The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.

deputy

There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight.

Deracinate

While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery.

Derange

A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts.

Deranged

The story of a poor deranged parish lad.

Derelict

The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.

They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his [Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.

A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties.

Dereliction

Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers.

A total dereliction of military duties.

Dereligionize

He would dereligionize men beyond all others.

Deride

And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him.

Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides.

Derision

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision.

Satan beheld their plight, And to his mates thus in derision called.

I was a derision to all my people.

Derivable

All honor derivable upon me.

The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life.

The argument derivable from the doxologies.

Derival

The derival of e from a.

Derivation

As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation.

From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river.

Derive

For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains.

Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share.

Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah.

From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases.

Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed.

Derivement

I offer these derivements from these subjects.

Dermestoid

The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle.

Dermic

Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified.

Derne

He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth.

Derogate

By several contrary customs, . . . many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated.

Anything . . . that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name.

If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great.

It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity.

You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate.

Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?

Derogation

I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion.

He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep.

derogatory

Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.

His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other.

Derring

Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed.

Descant

Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song.

She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung.

Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant!

A virtuous man should be pleased to find people descanting on his actions.

Descend

The rain descended, and the floods came.

We will here descend to matters of later date.

[He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended.

And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.

But never tears his cheek descended.

Descendant

Our first parents and their descendants.

The descendant of so many kings and emperors.

Descendent

More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race.

Descent

The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts.

If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe.

No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself.

Describe

Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book.

Description

Milton has descriptions of morning.

A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors.

The plates were all of the meanest description.

Descry

And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel.

Edmund, I think, is gone . . . to descry The strength o' the enemy.

And now their way to earth they had descried.

His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought.

Desecrate

The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated.

The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations.

Desert

According to their deserts will I judge them.

Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome.

His reputation falls far below his desert.

A dreary desert and a gloomy waste.

He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.

Before her extended Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life.

He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers.

Desertion

Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach.

The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion.

Deserve

God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

John Gay deserved to be a favorite.

Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension.

A man that hath So well deserved me.

One man may merit or deserve of another.

Deserving

A person of great deservings from the republic.

Desiccate

Bodies desiccated by heat or age.

Desiderate

Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not.

Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire.

Desightment

To substitute jury masts at whatever desightment or damage in risk.

Design

We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry.

Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design.

Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed.

He was designed to the study of the law.

The vast design and purpos of the King.

The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman.

A . . . settled design upon another man's life.

How little he could guess the secret designs of the court!

Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life?

I wish others the same intention, and greater successes.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow.

Designation

The usual designation of the days of the week.

Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things which have parts.

Designment

For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own.

Desinential

Furthermore, b, as a desinential element, has a dynamic function.

Desirable

All of them desirable young men.

As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite.

Desirableness

The desirableness of the Austrian alliance.

Desire

Neither shall any man desire thy land.

Ye desire your child to live.

Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?

Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.

A doleful case desires a doleful song.

She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

Unspeakable desire to see and know.

And slowly was my mother brought To yield consent to my desire.

The Desire of all nations shall come.

Desireful

The desireful troops.

Desirefulness

The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure.

Desirous

Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him.

Be not desirous of his dainties.

Desist

Never desisting to do evil.

To desist from his bad practice.

Desist (thou art discern'd, And toil'st in vain).

Desistance

If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order.

Desolate

I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among.

Have mercy upon, for I am desolate.

Voice of the poor and desolate.

I were right now of tales desolate.

Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war.

Desolation

Unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation.

How is Babylon become a desolation!

Despair

We despaired even of life.

Never despair of God's blessings here.

I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.

We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair.

Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair.

Despecificate

Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated.

Despeed

Despeeded certain of their crew.

Despend

Some noble men in Spain can despend £50,000.

Desperate

I am desperate of obtaining her.

A desperate offendress against nature.

The most desperate of reprobates.

Desperately

She fell desperately in love with him.

Desperation

This desperation of success chills all our industry.

In the desperation of the moment, the officers even tried to cut their way through with their swords.

Despisal

A despisal of religion.

Despise

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Despite

With all thy despite against the land of Israel.

A despite done against the Most High.

Despiteful

Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters.

Pray for them which despitefully use you.

Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune.

Despitous

He was to sinful man not despitous.

Despoil

The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair.

A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.

Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.

despond

I should despair, or at least despond.

Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.

We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong.

The slough of despond.

Despondence

The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence.

Despondency

The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency.

Desponsage

Ethelbert . . . went peaceably to King Offa for desponsage of Athilrid, his daughter.

Desponsation

For all this desponsation of her . . . she had not set one step toward the consummation of her marriage.

Despot

Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant.

Despotism

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

Despume

If honey be despumed.

Dessert

“An 't please your honor,” quoth the peasant, “This same dessert is not so pleasant.”

Destine

We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe.

Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain.

Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way.

Destiny

Thither he Will come to know his destiny.

No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

But who can turn the stream of destiny?

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Marked by the Destinies to be avoided.

Destitute

In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

Totally destitute of all shadow of influence.

They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

To forsake or destitute a plantation.

Destituted of all honor and livings.

When his expectation is destituted.

Destroy

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.

I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation.

If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert.

Destroyable

Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather.

Destruction

The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction.

'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Destruction of venerable establishment.

This town came to destruction.

Thou castedst them down into destruction.

The destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Destructive

Time's destructive power.

Destructor

Fire, the destructor and the artificial death of things.

Desuetude

The desuetude abrogated the law, which, before, custom had established.

Desultoriness

The seeming desultoriness of my method.

Desultory

I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim.

He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory.

Detach

[A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights.

Detachment

Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.

A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint.

Detail

The details of the campaign in Italy.

Detain

Detain not the wages of the hireling.

Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

Detect

Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last.

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

He was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of.

Detection

Such secrets of guilt are never from detection.

Detector

A deathbed's detector of the heart.

Detention

The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court.

Deter

Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty.

My own face deters me from my glass.

Deteriorate

The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated.

Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates.

Determinable

Not wholly determinable from the grammatical use of the words.

Determinate

Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.

The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.

My determinate voyage.

More determinate to do than skillful how to do.

The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile.

Determinately

The principles of religion are already either determinately true or false, before you think of them.

Being determinately . . . bent to marry.

Determination

A speedy determination of that war.

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

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

So bloodthirsty a determination to obtain convictions.

Determinative

Incidents . . . determinative of their course.

Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning.

Determine

[God] hath determined the times before appointed.

The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.

Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me?

The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.

Something divinely beautiful . . . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life.

He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together.

Estates may determine on future contingencies.

He shall pay as the judges determine.

Determinism

Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious.

Detest

The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches.

God hath detested them with his own mouth.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Detestable

Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations.

Detestation

We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil war.

Detract

Detract much from the view of the without.

That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do.

It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero.

Detracter

Other detracters and malicious writers.

Detraction

The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl.

Detractor

His detractors were noisy and scurrilous.

Detriment

I can repair That detriment, if such it be.

Other might be determined thereby.

Detrimental

Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor.

Detrition

Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity.

Detritus

The mass of detritus of which modern languages are composed.

Deuteroscopy

I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye.

Devastate

Whole countries . . . were devastated.

Devastation

Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done.

Develop

These serve to develop its tenets.

The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy.

The sound developed itself into a real compound.

All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed.

We must develop our own resources to the utmost.

Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within.

Development

A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry.

Deviate

Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track.

To deviate a needle.

Device

His device in against Babylon, to destroy it.

Their recent device of demanding benevolences.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty.

I must have instruments of my own device.

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

A banner with this strange device - Excelsior.

Deviceful

A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread.

Devil

[Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil.

That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

A dumb man possessed with a devil.

Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

The devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a timepleaser.

The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron.

A deviled leg of turkey.

Devilish

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Devilize

He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him.

Devilry

Stark lies and devilry.

Devise

To devise curious works.

Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views.

For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore They are which fortunes do by vows devise.

I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.

Fines upon devises were still exacted.

Devocalize

If we take a high vowel, such as (i) [= nearly i of bit], and devocalize it, we obtain a hiss which is quite distinct enough to stand for a weak (jh).

Devolution

The devolution of earth down upon the valleys.

The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions.

Devolve

Every headlong stream Devolves its winding waters to the main.

Devolved his rounded periods.

They devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite.

They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.

His estate . . . devolved to Lord Somerville.

Devote

No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord . . . shall be sold or redeemed.

Thy servant who is devoted to thy fear.

They devoted themselves unto all wickedness.

A leafless and simple branch . . . devoted to the purpose of climbing.

Devotee

While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee.

Devotion

Genius animated by a fervent spirit of devotion.

They are entirely at our devotion, and may be turned backward and forward, as we please.

Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos.

Devour

Some evil beast hath devoured him.

Famine and pestilence shall devour him.

I waste my life and do my days devour.

Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight.

Devout

A devout man, and one that feared God.

We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.

Devoutful

To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights.

Devoutly

Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly.

'T is a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

Devulgarize

Shakespeare and Plutarch's “Lives” are very devulgarizing books.

Dew

Her tears fell with the dews at even.

The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so.

Dewberry

Feed him with apricots and dewberries.

Dewclaw

Some cut off the dewclaws [of greyhounds].

Dewlap

On her withered dewlap pour the ale.

Dewy

A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground.

When dewy eve her curtain draws.

Dewy sleep ambrosial.

Dexter

On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew.

Dexterity

In youth quick bearing and dexterity.

His wisdom . . . was turned . . . into a dexterity to deliver himself.

He had conducted his own defense with singular boldness and dexterity.

Dexterous

Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit.

dégagé

A graceful and dégagé manner.

Diacritic

A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer.

Diadem

Not so, when diadem'd with rays divine.

To terminate the evil, To diadem the right.

Diagnosis

The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.

My diagnosis of his character proved correct.

Diagnostics

His rare skill in diagnostics.

Diagonial

Sin can have no tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere.

Dial

Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven.

Dialect

This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world.

In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.

[Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect.

Dialectic

Plato placed his dialectic above all sciences.

Dialogue

And dialogued for him what he would say.

Diametrically

Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his.

Diamondize

Diamondizing of your subject.

Diana

And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade.

Dianoetic

I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty.

Diapase

A tuneful diapase of pleasures.

Diapason

The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason.

Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.

Diaper

Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper.

Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers.

Diaphanous

Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous.

Diastatic

The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva.

Diatom

The individual is nothing. He is no more than the diatom, the bit of protoplasm.

Diatribe

The ephemeral diatribe of a faction.

Dibble

The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep.

dice

I . . . diced not above seven times a week.

Dicer

As false as dicers' oaths.

Dichotomize

The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace.

Dichotomy

A general breach or dichotomy with their church.

Dickens

I can not tell what the dickens his name is.

Dicker

A dicker of cowhides.

For peddling dicker, not for honest sales.

dicky

I've got this dicky heart

Dictate

The mind which dictated the Iliad.

Pages dictated by the Holy Spirit.

Whatsoever is dictated to us by God must be believed.

Who presumed to dictate to the sovereign.

Sylla could not skill of letters, and therefore knew not how to dictate.

I credit what the Grecian dictates say.

Dictation

It affords security against the dictation of laws.

Dictator

Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language.

Dictatorial

Military powers quite dictatorial.

Dictatress

Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen.

Diction

His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur.

Dictionary

I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary.

Dictum

A class of critical dicta everywhere current.

Didactic

The finest didactic poem in any language.

Die

To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.

She will die from want of care.

In due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Letting the secret die within his own breast.

Great deeds can not die.

His heart died within, and he became as a stone.

The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.

Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.

“There is one certain way,” replied the Prince [William of Orange] “ by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.”

Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.

Such is the die of war.

Diet

To fast like one that takes diet.

She diets him with fasting every day.

Let him . . . diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth.

Dietetics

To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes.

Differ

One star differeth from another star in glory.

Minds differ, as rivers differ.

We 'll never differ with a crowded pit.

Severely punished, not for differing from us in opinion, but for committing a nuisance.

Davidson, whom on a former occasion we quoted, to differ from him.

Much as I differ from him concerning an essential part of the historic basis of religion.

I differ with the honorable gentleman on that point.

If the honorable gentleman differs with me on that subject, I differ as heartily with him, and shall always rejoice to differ.

But something 'ts that differs thee and me.

Difference

Differencies of administration, but the same Lord.

What was the difference? It was a contention in public.

Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.

The marks and differences of sovereignty.

That now he chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lack intelligence.

Thou mayest difference gods from men.

Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing trial, are not differenced from the meanest subject.

So completely differenced by their separate and individual characters that we at once acknowledge them as distinct persons.

Different

Men are as different from each other, as the regions in which they are born are different.

differential

For whom he produced differential favors.

Differentiate

The word then was differentiated into the two forms then and than.

Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become differentiated in signification.

Differentiation

Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of the meaning of such of these roots as are real roots.

Difficult

There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone.

Difficulty

Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region.

They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure.

Measures for terminating all local difficulties.

In days of difficulty and pressure.

Diffidence

That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy.

It is good to speak on such questions with diffidence.

An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness of address.

Diffident

You were always extremely diffident of their success.

The diffident maidens, Folding their hands in prayer.

Diffidently

To stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array.

Difform

The unequal refractions of difform rays.

Diffraction

Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction.

Diffuse

Thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite.

We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations.

A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human things.

Diffused

It grew to be a widely diffused opinion.

Diffusion

A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition.

Diffusiveness

The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness.

Dig

Be first to dig the ground.

You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.

Dig for it more than for hid treasures.

I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed.

Peter dug at his books all the harder.

Digest

Joining them together and digesting them into order.

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.

I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.

Well-digested fruits.

A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects.

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

Digester

Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester.

Digestive

Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.

That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.

Dight

Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice.

The clouds in thousand liveries dight.

Digit

The ruminants have the “cloven foot,” i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot.

Digladiate

Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes.

dignify

Your worth will dignify our feast.

Dignity

The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings.

And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?

Reuben, thou art my firstborn, . . . the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.

A letter written with singular energy and dignity of thought and language.

These filthy dreamers . . . speak evil of dignities.

Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves.

They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.

Digress

Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.

In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.

Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son.

Digression

The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them.

Then my digression is so vile, so base, That it will live engraven in my face.

Dike

Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.

Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides.

He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.

Dilapidate

If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony.

The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated.

Dilapidated

A deserted and dilapidated buildings.

Dilapidation

Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate.

The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York.

Dilate

Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now.

His heart dilates and glories in his strength.

But still on their ancient joys dilate.

Dilation

At first her eye with slow dilation rolled.

A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure.

Dilatory

Alva, as usual, brought his dilatory policy to bear upon his adversary.

dildo

Delicate burthens of dildos and fadings.

Dilemma

A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place.

Dilettant

Though few art lovers can be connoisseurs, many are dilettants.

Dilettante

The true poet is not an eccentric creature, not a mere artist living only for art, not a dreamer or a dilettante, sipping the nectar of existence, while he keeps aloof from its deeper interests.

Diligence

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.

And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the festé reverence.

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer ascribe to himself.

Diligent

The judges shall make diligent inquisition.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings.

Diligent cultivation of elegant literature.

Diligently

Ye diligently keep commandments of the Lord your God.

Dilling

Whilst the birds billing, Each one with his dilling.

Diluent

There is no real diluent but water.

Dilute

Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.

Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light.

A dilute and waterish exposition.

Dim

The dim magnificence of poetry.

How is the gold become dim!

I never saw The heavens so dim by day.

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.

The understanding is dim.

A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants.

Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways.

Her starry eyes were dimmed with streaming tears.

Dimension

Gentlemen of more than ordinary dimensions.

Dimensive

Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines?

Diminish

Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt.

This doth nothing diminish their opinion.

I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.

Neither shall ye diminish aught from it.

Diminution

The world's opinion or diminution of me.

Nor thinks it diminution to be ranked In military honor next.

Diminutive

Diminutive of liberty.

Such water flies, diminutives of nature.

Babyisms and dear diminutives.

Dimorphism

Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms.

Dimple

The dimple of her chin.

The garden pool's dark surface . . . Breaks into dimples small and bright.

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.

Dimplement

The ground's most gentle dimplement.

Din

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?

He knew the battle's din afar.

The dust and din and steam of town.

This hath been often dinned in my ears.

The gay viol dinning in the dale.

Dine

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.

A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.

Diner-out

A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate.

Ding

To ding the book a coit's distance from him.

Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves.

The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.

Dingthrift

Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave?

dinner

A grand political dinner.

Dinnerly

The dinnerly officer.

Dint

Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield].

Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity.

It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length.

Dip

The priest shall dip his finger in the blood.

[Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep.

While the prime swallow dips his wing.

A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er.

He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.

Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.

When I dipt into the future.

Diplomatist

In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatists whom his country then possessed.

Dipody

Trochaic, iambic, and anapestic verses . . . are measured by dipodies.

Dire

Dire was the tossing, deep the groans.

Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire.

Direct

What is direct to, what slides by, the question.

Be even and direct with me.

He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.

A direct and avowed interference with elections.

The Lord direct your into the love of God.

The next points to which I will direct your attention.

I will direct their work in truth.

I 'll first direct my men what they shall do.

Wisdom is profitable to direct.

Direction

I do commit his youth To your direction.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; ll chance, direction, which thou canst not see.

The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver.

Directive

The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God.

Swords and bows Directive by the limbs.

Directly

Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant.

No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer.

Stand you directly in Antonius' way.

I have dealt most directly in thy affair.

Desdemona is directly in love with him.

Directly he stopped, the coffin was removed.

Director

In all affairs thou sole director.

What made directors cheat in South-Sea year?

Directorial

Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport.

Dirge

The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral.

Dirgeful

Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind.

Dirige

Evensongs and placebo and dirige.

Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion.

Dirt

Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy.

Dirty

The creature's at his dirty work again.

Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea.

disability

Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.

Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.

The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.

Disable

A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a wrestling and warfare, for which sensual pleasure disables him.

And had performed it, if my known offense Had not disabled me.

I have disabled mine estate.

An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit.

disabuse

To undeceive and disabuse the people.

If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.

Disacquaint

While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never.

Disadvantage

I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you.

Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage.

They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.

Disadvantageous

Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence.

Disaffect

They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army.

It disaffects the bowels.

Disaffection

In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people.

Disafforest

By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested.

Disagree

They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems to disagree with what they call reason.

Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?

Disagreeable

Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto.

That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree.

Disallow

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God.

That the edicts of Cæsar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject.

Disannul

For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?

Disapparel

Drink disapparels the soul.

Disappoint

I was disappointed, but very agreeably.

His retiring foe Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.

Disappointed

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled.

Disappointment

If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them.

In disappointment thou canst bless.

Disapprobation

We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps.

Disappropriate

The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.

Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated.

Disarm

Security disarms the best-appointed army.

The proud was half disarmed of pride.

Disarray

Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged.

So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed.

Disrank the troops, set all in disarray.

Disassimilation

The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation.

Disassimilative

Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells.

Disaster

Disasters in the sun.

But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.

Disastrous

The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances.

Disavow

A solemn promise made and disavowed.

Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's.

Disavowal

An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear.

Disband

They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.

And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded.

When both rocks and all things shall disband.

Human society would in a short space disband.

Disbase

Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

Disbelief

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men.

Disbelieve

Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility.

Disburden

He did it to disburden a conscience.

My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened.

Disburse

The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues.

Disbursement

The disbursement of the public moneys.

Discard

They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them.

A man discards the follies of boyhood.

Discede

I dare not discede from my copy a tittle.

Discept

One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished.

Disceptation

Verbose janglings and endless disceptations.

Discern

To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.

A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone.

And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.

Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects.

I wake, and I discern the truth.

More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left.

Discerner

A great observer and discerner of men's natures.

Discernible

The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment.

Discharge

The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.

Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

Discharged of business, void of strife.

In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.

Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks.

Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see.

They do discharge their shot of courtesy.

We say such an order was “discharged on appeal.”

The order for Daly's attendance was discharged.

Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge.

If he had The present money to discharge the Jew.

The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge.

Indefatigable in the discharge of business.

Nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties.

Too secure of our discharge From penalty.

Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge.

The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous discharge.

Disciple

That better were in virtues discipled.

Sending missionaries to disciple all nations.

Disciplinary

Those canons . . . were only disciplinary.

The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.

Discipline

Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art.

The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate us.

Giving her the discipline of the strap.

Ill armed, and worse disciplined.

His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.

Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?

Disclaim

He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.

He disclaims the authority of Jesus.

The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed.

Disclose

The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.

The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.

How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown!

Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.

If I disclose my passion, Our friendship 's an end.

Disclosure

He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure.

Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten?

Discoast

As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie.

To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech.

Discolor

To discolor all your ideas.

discolored

That ever wore discolored arms.

Discomfit

And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field.

Well, go with me and be not so discomfited.

Such a discomfit as shall quite despoil him.

Discomfiture

Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace.

Discomfort

His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us.

Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings.

Discomfortable

A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.

Discommend

By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others.

A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry.

Discommunity

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent.

Discompany

It she be alone now, and discompanied.

Discompliance

A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor.

Discompose

Or discomposed the headdress of a prude.

Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity.

Discomposure

No discomposure stirred her features.

Disconcert

The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do.

Disconformable

Disconformable in religion from us.

Disconformity

Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves.

Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind.

Disconnect

The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality.

This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals.

Disconnection

Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion.

Disconsolate

One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.

The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan.

Disconsolated

A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature.

Discontent

Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent.

Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents.

Discontented

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him.

Discontinuation

Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls.

Discontinue

Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued.

I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth.

Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.

They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.

Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage.

Discontinuer

He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time.

Discontinuous

A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence.

Discord

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.

For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds ming.

The one discording with the other.

Discordance

There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.

Discordant

The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.

For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart.

Discount

Discount only unexceptionable paper.

Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's).

Discountenance

How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised!

The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation.

A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.

He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit.

Discourage

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Discourager

The promoter of truth and the discourager of error.

Discoure

That none might her discoure.

Discourse

Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason.

Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.

In their discourses after supper.

Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse.

Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse.

Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book.

It will discourse most eloquent music.

I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it.

Discourser

In his conversation he was the most clear discourser.

Philologers and critical discoursers.

Discoursive

The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes.

Discourtesy

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Discover

Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church.

Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

We will discover ourselves unto them.

Discover not a secret to another.

Some to discover islands far away.

The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

This done, they discover.

Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world.

Discoverer

The discoverers and searchers of the land.

Discovery

In the clear discoveries of the next [world].

A brilliant career of discovery and conquest.

We speak of the “invention” of printing, the discovery of America.

Discradle

This airy apparition first discradled From Tournay into Portugal.

Discredit

It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible.

He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went.

Discreet

It is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to society.

Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

The sea is silent, the sea is discreet.

Discrepance

There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women.

There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies.

Discrepant

The Egyptians were . . . the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship.

Discretion

The better part of valor is discretion.

The greatest parts without discretion may be fatal to their owner.

Well spoken, with good accent and good discretion.

Discriminate

To discriminate the goats from the sheep.

Discriminating

And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white.

Discrimination

To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential.

A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination.

Discriminative

That peculiar and discriminative form of life.

Discrown

The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman.

Discruciate

Discruciate a man in deep distress.

Disculpate

I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself.

Discure

I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may.

Discursive

The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive.

A man rather tacit than discursive.

Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive.

Discuss

Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.

A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples.

All regard of shame she had discussed.

We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.

Discussion

The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of all other liberties.

discussive

A kind of peremptory and discussive voice.

Disdain

How my soul is moved with just disdain!

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.

Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain.

Disdaining . . . that any should bear the armor of the best knight living.

When the Philistine . . . saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.

'T is great, 't is manly to disdain disguise.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did . . . they disdained.

Disdained

Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king.

Disdainful

From these Turning disdainful to an equal good.

Disdeign

Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight.

Disease

So all that night they passed in great disease.

To shield thee from diseases of the world.

Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved.

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.

His double burden did him sore disease.

He was diseased in body and mind.

Diseased

It is my own diseased imagination that torments me.

Diseaseful

Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people.

Disedge

Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart.

Disembark

Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.

And, making fast their moorings, disembarked.

Disembarrass

To disembarrass himself of his companion.

Disembodied

The disembodied spirits of the dead.

Disembody

Devils embodied and disembodied.

Disembogue

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves.

Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue.

Disembowel

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled.

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold.

Disembroil

Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time.

Disemployment

This glut of leisure and disemployment.

Disenable

The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak.

Disenchant

Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.

Disencumber

I have disencumbered myself from rhyme.

Disendowment

[The] disendowment of the Irish Church.

Disengage

To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed.

Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process.

From a friends's grave how soon we disengage!

Disengagement

It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses.

A disengagement from earthly trammels.

Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment.

Disennoble

An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man.

Disensanity

What tediosity and disensanity Is here among!

Disenshrouded

The disenshrouded statue.

Disenslave

He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.

disentangle

To disentangle truth from error.

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures.

Disentitle

Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father.

Disentrail

As if he thought her soul to disentrail.

disestablishmentarianism

Prior to the Puritans, very few earlier believers contended for any form of disestablishmentarianism.

Disesteem

Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs.

But if this sacred gift you disesteem.

Qualities which society does not disesteem.

What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed, Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed?

Disexercise

By disexercising and blunting our abilities.

Disfavor

The people that deserved my disfavor.

Sentiment of disfavor against its ally.

He might dispense favors and disfavors.

Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey.

Disfellowship

An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer.

Disfigure

Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own.

Disfigurement

Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse.

Disformity

Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies.

Disfranchise

Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised.

He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs.

Disfranchisement

Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony.

Disfriar

Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves.

Disfurnish

I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher.

Disglorify

Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.

Disglory

To the disglory of God's name.

Disgorge

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.

They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths Into the sea.

Disgrace

Macduff lives in disgrace.

To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?

The interchange continually of favors and disgraces.

Flatterers of the disgraced minister.

Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed.

Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace.

His ignorance disgraced him.

The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace.

Disgraceful

The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully.

Disguise

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.

There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride.

That eye which glances through all disguises.

Disguise was the old English word for a masque.

Disgust

To disgust him with the world and its vanities.

Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing.

Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention.

The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received.

In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust.

Disgustful

That horrible and disgustful situation.

Dish

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

Home-home dishes that drive one from home.

Dishabille

They breakfast in dishabille.

Dishabit

Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited.

Dishable

She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite.

Dishallow

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.

Disharmony

A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature].

Dishearten

Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened.

dishelm

Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale.

Dishevel

With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan.

Like the fair flower disheveled in the wind.

Dishevele

Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare.

Disheveled

The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads.

Dishonest

Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars.

Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].

Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

To get dishonest gain.

The dishonest profits of men in office.

I will no longer dishonest my house.

Dishonor

It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor.

His honor rooted in dishonor stood.

Nothing . . . that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.

Dishonorable

He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty!

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Disinclination

Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.

Having a disinclination to books or business.

Disincline

Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen.

To social scenes by nature disinclined.

Disinfect

When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect.

Disingenuous

So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults].

Disinherit

Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!

And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here.

Disintegrable

Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure.

Disintegrate

Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.

Disintegration

Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally.

Disinterest

The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even.

Disinterested

The happiness of disinterested sacrifices.

Disinterestedness

That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.

Disinure

We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge.

Disjoin

That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins.

Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.

Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.

Disjoint

Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?

Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall.

Disk

Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart.

Disleave

The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms.

Dislike

Every nation dislikes an impost.

God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin.

The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike.

We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox.

His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories.

Dislive

Telemachus dislived Amphimedon.

Dislocate

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated.

And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again.

Dislodge

The Volscians are dislodg'd.

Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns.

Disloign

Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze.

Disloyal

Without a thought disloyal.

Dismal

An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day.

Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned.

A dismal description of an English November.

Dismantle

A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain.

Dismay

Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

What words be these? What fears do you dismay?

Do not dismay yourself for this.

So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed, The lions roaring through the midnight shade.

Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control.

Now the last ruin the whole host appalls; Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls.

I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay.

Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.

Dismember

Fowls obscene dismembered his remains.

A society lacerated and dismembered.

By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire.

They were dismembered by vote of the house.

Dismemberment

The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head.

Dismiss

He dismissed the assembly.

Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock.

Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs.

Dismissal

Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal.

Dismount

But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.

Dismounted from his authority.

Disobedience

He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience.

Disobedient

This disobedient spirit in the colonies.

Disobedient unto the word of the Lord.

Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli.

Disobey

Not to disobey her lord's behest.

He durst not know how to disobey.

Disoblige

Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them.

My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige.

Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause.

Disorder

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence.

The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin.

A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit.

Disorderly

Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly.

Savages fighting disorderly with stones.

Disorganization

The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it.

Disorganize

Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church.

Disown

Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne.

Dispace

In this fair plot dispacing to and fro.

Dispair

I have . . . dispaired two doves.

Disparage

Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be.

Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious.

Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.

Dissuaded her from such a disparage.

Disparagement

And thought that match a foul disparagement.

It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not the sun.

Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a Christian minister.

Disparate

Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them.

Disparity

The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures.

The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness.

Dispark

The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked.

Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all.

Dispart

Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart.

The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.

On account of the dispart, the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis.

Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.

Dispassionate

Wise and dispassionate men.

Dispatch

Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of.

[The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.

I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.

Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets.

Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's cou.

The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords.

They have dispatched with Pompey.

To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.

Serious business, craving quick dispatch.

To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space.

Dispathy

Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us.

Dispeed

Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, Doa Ximena.

Dispel

[Satan] gently raised their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears.

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

Dispend

Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above.

Dispensation

To respect the dispensations of Providence.

Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.

A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry.

Dispense

He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.

While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.

His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed.

It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.

He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.

One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense.

He [the pope] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law.

It was a vault built for great dispense.

Dispeople

Leave the land dispeopled and desolate.

A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers.

Disperple

Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck.

Disperse

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.

Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse.

Dispersed are the glories.

He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor.

Dispersion

The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished.

Disperson'ate

We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves.

Dispirit

Not dispirited with my afflictions.

He has dispirited himself by a debauch.

This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the scholar.

Dispiritment

Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this.

Displace

Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas.

You have displaced the mirth.

Displacement

Unnecessary displacement of funds.

The displacement of the sun by parallax.

Displant

I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy.

Display

The northern wind his wings did broad display.

His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army.

Proudly displaying the insignia of their order.

And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers.

Having witnessed displays of his power and grace.

He died, as erring man should die, Without display, without parade.

Disple

And bitter Penance, with an iron whip, Was wont him once to disple every day.

Displease

God was displeased with this thing.

Wilt thou be displeased at us forever?

This virtuous plaster will displease Your tender sides.

Adversity is so wholesome . . . why should we be displeased therewith?

I shall displease my ends else.

Displeasure

O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure.

Hast thou delight to see a wretched man Do outrage and displeasure to himself?

He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity.

Displode

In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder.

Displosion

The vast displosion dissipates the clouds.

Displume

Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed.

Dispone

He has disponed . . . the whole estate.

Disponge

O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me.

Dispope

One whom they dispoped.

Disport

Where light disports in ever mingling dyes.

Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly.

They could disport themselves.

Disposable

The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a disposable surplus.

Disposal

The execution leave to high disposal.

A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life.

The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns.

Dispose

Who hath disposed the whole world?

All ranged in order and disposed with grace.

The rest themselves in troops did else dispose.

The knightly forms of combat to dispose.

Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor.

Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes.

Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons.

More water . . . than can be disposed of.

I have disposed of her to a man of business.

A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.

She had disposed with Cæsar.

But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires.

He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected.

Disposed

When he was disposed to pass into Achaia.

Disposer

Absolute lord and disposer of all things.

Disposition

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels.

The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.

How stands your disposition to be married?

His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

Dispositive

His dispositive wisdom and power.

Dispositively

Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once.

Dispossess

Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain.

dispossessed

made a living out of shepherding dispossessed people from one country to another

Disposure

Give up My estate to his disposure.

In a kind of warlike disposure.

Dispraise

Dispraising the power of his adversaries.

I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him.

In praise and in dispraise the same.

Dispread

While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky.

Dispreader

Dispreaders both of vice and error.

Disprince

For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel.

Disprofess

His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess.

Disproof

I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other.

Disproportion

To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part.

A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory.

Disprove

That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it.

Dispunct

That were dispunct to the ladies.

Disputable

Actions, every one of which is very disputable.

disputant

A singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious disputant.

Disputatious

The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period.

Dispute

Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver.] he in synagogue with the Jews.

The rest I reserve it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein.

To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance.

To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards.

Dispute it [grief] like a man.

Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute.

Disputer

Where is the disputer of this world?

Disqualification

I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook.

disqualify

My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness.

Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society.

Disquiet

Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me?

As quiet as these disquieted times will permit.

Disquietal

[It] roars and strives 'gainst its disquietal.

Disquietous

So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men.

Disquiettude

Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind.

Disquisition

For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified.

disregard

Studious of good, man disregarded fame.

The disregard of experience.

Disrelish

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.

Disrepair

The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair.

Disreputable

Why should you think that conduct disreputable in priests which you probably consider as laudable in yourself?

Disrepute

At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute.

More inclined to love them than to disrepute them.

Disrespect

Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect.

We have disrespected and slighted God.

Disrobe

Two great peers were disrobed of their glory.

Disroot

A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations.

Dissatisfaction

The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction.

Dissatisfactory

To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention.

Dissatisfy

The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy.

Dissect

This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample.

Disseize

Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof.

Dissemble

Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs?

He soon dissembled a sleep.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips.

He [an enemy] dissembles when he assumes an air of friendship.

Dissembler

It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers.

Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Disseminate

A nearly uniform and constant fire or heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth.

dissemination

The universal dissemination of those writings.

disseminative

The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative.

Dissension

Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them.

Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy.

A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people.

Dissent

The bill passed . . . without a dissenting voice.

Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us.

The dissent of no small number [of peers] is frequently recorded.

It is the dissidence of dissent and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

The dissent of the metals.

Dissenter

Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries.

Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter.

Dissert

We have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary.

Disserve

Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party.

Disservice

We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators.

Dissever

The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again.

States disserved, discordant, belligerent.

Dissidence

It is the dissidence of dissent.

Dissident

Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.

The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation.

Dissimilar

This part very dissimilar to any other.

Dissimilarly

With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay.

Dissimilitude

Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images.

dissimulation

Let love be without dissimulation.

Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is.

Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is.

Dissipable

The heat of those plants is very dissipable.

dissipate

Dissipated those foggy mists of error.

I soon dissipated his fears.

The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.

The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.

Dissipated

A life irregular and dissipated.

Dissipation

Without loss or dissipation of the matter.

The famous dissipation of mankind.

To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance.

Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations.

Dissite

Lands far dissite and remote asunder.

Dissociable

They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner.

dissociate

Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer.

Dissociation

It will add infinitely dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics.

Dissoluteness

Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness.

Dissolution

Dissolutions of ancient amities.

The dissolution of the compound.

Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament.

We expected Immediate dissolution.

A man of continual dissolution and thaw.

To make a present dissolution of the world.

Dissolvable

Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable.

Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue.

Dissolve

Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life.

Nothing can dissolve us.

Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.

As if the world were all dissolved to tears.

Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.

A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form.

The charm dissolves apace.

Dissolvent

Melted in the crucible dissolvents.

The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce.

Dissolver

Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care.

Dissonance

Filled the air with barbarous dissonance.

Dissonant

With clamor of voices dissonant and loud.

What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman?

Dissuade

Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter.

War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades.

I have tried what is possible to dissuade him.

Dissuasion

In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends.

Dissuasory

This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories.

Distaff

I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin.

His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne.

Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy.

Distain

[She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood.

The worthiness of praise distains his worth.

Distance

Every particle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance.

Easily managed from a distance.

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view.

[He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.

The horse that ran the whole field out of distance.

Ten years' distance between one and the other.

The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years.

I hope your modesty Will know what distance to the crown is due.

'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld.

Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.

On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time.

I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence.

His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space.

He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries.

Distant

One board had two tenons, equally distant.

Diana's temple is not distant far.

The success of these distant enterprises.

He passed me with a distant bow.

Some distant knowledge.

A distant glimpse.

Distantial

More distantial from the eye.

Distaste

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste.

Although my will distaste what it elected.

He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.

Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to distaste.

Distasteful

Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions.

Distemper

When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered.

The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.

The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.

Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable.

They heighten distempers to diseases.

Little faults proceeding on distemper.

Some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

Distemperature

A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life.

Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature.

Distend

But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven Distended as the brow of God appeased?

The warmth distends the chinks.

Distill

Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain.

The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.

Or o'er the glebe distill the kindly rain.

The dew which on the tender grass The evening had distilled.

Swords by the lightning's subtle force distilled.

Distinct

Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name.

The which [place] was dight With divers flowers distinct with rare delight.

The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct.

To offend, and judge, are distinct offices.

Relation more particular and distinct.

Distinction

The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known.

To take away therefore that error, which confusion breedeth, distinction is requisite.

The distinction betwixt the animal kingdom and the inferior parts of matter.

Maids, women, wives, without distinction, fall.

Your country's own means of distinction and defense.

Distinctive

The distinctive character and institutions of New England.

Distinctly

Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores.

Distinctness

The soul's . . . distinctness from the body.

Distinguish

Not more distinguished by her purple vest, Than by the charming features of her face.

Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine.

Moses distinguished the causes of the flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth.

We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood.

Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show.

Who distinguisheth thee?

The little embryo . . . first distinguishes into a little knot.

Distinguishable

A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.

Distinguished

The most distinguished politeness.

Distinguishing

The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion.

Distort

Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.

Whose face was distorted with pain.

Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men.

Distract