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Deportment. [Obs.] Stately port and majestical deporture. Speed.

The act of depositing; deposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Low estimation; disesteem; contempt. [Obs.]

To depurate; to purify. [Obs.] He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God. Sir T. More.

Same as Deutohydroguret.

A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical. [Obs.]

A disulphide. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, devours.

Office of a dictator; dictatorship. [R.] Bacon.

Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.

Misfortune; mishap. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The act of divesting of armature. [R.]

Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure. He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. D. Webster.

dejection. Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 1 Sam. xiv. 20. A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace. Macaulay.

e state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside.

To discover. [Obs.] That none might her discoure. Spenser.

A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.

To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.] I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may. Spenser.