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Capable of being brought down. [Obs.] As if God [were] deducible to human imbecility. State Trials (1649).

ending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

mbat. A war without a just defiance made. Dryden. Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. Tennyson.

Bent downward; deflexed.

tate of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth.

Bent abruptly downward.

To flow down. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Flowing down; falling off. [Obs.] Bailey.

Downward flow. [Obs.] Bacon.

To tread down. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, fro

To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic] Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.

Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.

One who casts down, or dejects.

A casting down; depression. [Obs. or Archaic] Hallywell.

Having power, or tending, to cast down.

To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. [Obs.] Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.

A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.