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ing turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth.

Causing deflection. Deflective forces, forces that cause a body to deviate from its course.

Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from other or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character. Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. Milton.

To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld. We have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and…

Devil; -- spelt also deel. [Scot.] Deil's buckie. See under Buckie.

d to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring. [R.] Dives, for his delicate life, to the devil went. Piers Plowman. Haarlem is a very delicate town. Evelyn.

An evil spirit; a devil. That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. Shak.

One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices. Sarcastic, demoniacal laughter. Thackeray.

A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.

To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.

Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. Any departure from a national standard. Prescott.

To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.

A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.

The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also deuse.] [Low]

Devilish; excessive; extreme. [Low] -- Deu"ced*ly, adv.

Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.

Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act. "Diabolic power." Milton. "The diabolical institution." Motley. -- Di`a*bol"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Di`a*bol"ic*al*ness, n.…

To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.

Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.