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DETRACTION n. 2 definitions
A taking away or withdrawing. [Obs.] The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon.
DETRACTIOUS a.
Containing detraction; detractory. [R.] Johnson.
DETRACTIVE a. 2 definitions
Tending to detractor draw. [R.]
DETRACTIVENESS n.
The quality of being detractive.
DETRACTOR n.
One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.
DETRACTORY a.
Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.
DETRACTRESS n.
A female detractor. Addison.
DIACTINIC a.
Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.
DIDACTIC n.
A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] Milton.
DIDACTIC; DIDACTICAL a.
teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays. "Didactical writings." Jer. Taylor. The finest didactic poem in any language. Macaulay.
DIDACTICALLY adv.
In a didactic manner.
DIDACTICISM n.
The didactic method or system.
DIDACTICITY n.
Aptitude for teaching. Hare.
DIDACTICS n.
The art or science of teaching.
DIDACTYL n.
An animal having only two digits.
DIDACTYLOUS a.
Having only two digits; two-toed.
DIFFRACT v.
To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a
DIFFRACTION n.
slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars. Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. Whewell. Diffraction grating. (Optics) See under Grating. -- Diffraction spectrum. (O…
DIFFRACTIVE a.
That produces diffraction.
DIRECT ACTION n.
See Syndicalism, below.
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