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Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]

Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind.

delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.

n a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly. Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause. Clarendon.

aimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.] To denunciate this new work. Burke.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.] Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall.

tle or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.

A robbing or embezzlement. [Obs.] Depeculation of the public treasure. Hobbes.

The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce. By deputation, or In deputation, by delegated authority; as substitute; through the medium of a deputy. [Obs.] Say to great C…

d by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

ion is applicable; kind; sort. A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.

Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.

An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.

tects; a detecter. Shak. A deathbed's detector of the heart. Young. Bank-note detector, a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them. -- Detector l. See under Lock.

s or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer. "The love of public devotion." Hooker.

ause of dissension; matter in controversy. What was the difference It was a contention in public. Shak. Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood.

ally ruined, or squandered. Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.