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Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. Wordsworth. Destructive distill…

In a destructive manner.

The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.

A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructive and the artificial death of things. Boyle.

To destroy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. [Obs.] The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale.

Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.

Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11.

The quality or state of being detestable.

In a detestable manner.

To detest. [Obs.] Udall.

The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil war. Burke.

One who detes

To divest; to undress. Shak.

A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.

One who digests.

The quality of being digestible.

Capable of being digested.