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Causing deflection. Deflective forces, forces that cause a body to deviate from its course.

Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from other or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character. Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. Milton.

To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.

Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. Any departure from a national standard. Prescott.

That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.

A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.

ubstances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

By extension, to Christians isolated from their own communion, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent congregation.

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man…

The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them. Sir W. Temple.

s driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States.

Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.

Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.

nd from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

An abbreviation of Ditto.

as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.