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way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

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Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n. Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.

One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.

To bring to shame; to disgrace. [Obs.] Bailey.

Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen. Gray.

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. Johnson.

Demurrage. [Obs.] Pepys (1663).

The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency. The demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had dem…

A deodorizer.

Deplorableness. Stormonth.

able; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.

State of being deplorable.

In a deplorable manner.

Deplorable. [Obs.] A more deplorate estate. Baker.

The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. Speed.

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey.

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.