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To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.] To denunciate this new work. Burke.

Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.

hich strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. Burke.

bility to help or provide for one's self. Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy. Burke.

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

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

The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke.

's] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. Burke. A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan.

an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers. Burke.

rogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

first parents and their descendants. Hale. The descendant of so many kings and emperors. Burke.

a favorite. Thackeray. Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension. Burke.

ut sometimes with to. Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. Burke. He was designed to the study of the law. Dryden.

; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.

nnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.

ion . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil war. Burke.

s with to or into. They devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite. Burke. They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty. Addison.

ion; circulation; dispersion. A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition. Burke.

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