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Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. Military powers quite dictatorial. W. Irving.

ifficult choice or position. A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place. Swift. Horns of a dilemma, alternatives, each of which is equally difficult of encountering.

order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillæ) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvæ (called maggots) being u…

To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

ver one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. L'Estrange.

hed rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.

To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated. [Obs.] As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.

Rout; overthrow; discomfiture. Such as discomfort as shall quite despoil him. Milton.

to be regarded with disfavor. [Obs.] What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed, Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed B. Jonson.

To disparage. [Obs.] She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite. Spenser.

To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.

ining a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction. -- Di*vis"i*ble*ness, n. -- Di*vis"i*bly, adv.

spense with. -- To have done, to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist. -- To have done with, to have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with. -- Well to do, in easy circumstances.

ich is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

e attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

f our efforts to know. Sir W. Hamilton. Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt. Wharton.

From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

ic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.

One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.

The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.