Search the Dictionary

One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.

A name given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.

A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek. G. Eliot.

or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.

Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor.

A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.

Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.] I am desperate of obtaining her. Shak.

Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv.

A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize. [Harvard Univ., U. S.]

Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.

Property devised, or given by will.

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.