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ingly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith.

Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose.

The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.

The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. Stow.

To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath. [Obs.] Spenser.

decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.

o picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation. Adventurous to delineate nature's form. Akenside.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by player; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly. His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it. Sir W. Scott.

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

Driving or thrusting away; averting. [R.] Holland.

An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

Below the average size; very small; little.

A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarmed and dis…

Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.