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Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

The state of being crispate.

An ill-natured person. [Colloq.] "Crosspatch, draw the latch." Mother Goose.

Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating. Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole.

Ending in a point.

A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

Sumptuous in cheer. [Obs.] Bailey.

w, from one's country; to banish. [Obs.] A subject born in any state May, if he please, depatriate. Mason.

Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure.

Dermatopathic.

Same as Dispatch.

To defile; to disfigure. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A making foul. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.

To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate. I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole.

Exculpation. Burke.

Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.

The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]