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y bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy. Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design. Pope.

Stillborn. Pope.

count I my life dear unto myself. Acts xx. 24. And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. Tennyson.

death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope.

Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.

religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress. Heard, noted, answer'd, as in full debate. Pope.

lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Milton. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. Pope.

as, the court decided in favor of the defendant. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope.

An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

out of. O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Sir W. Scott.…

culating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress. Pope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

s of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. Make fair deductions; see to what they mount. Pope.

ed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

w in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope.

a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by false learning is good sense defaced. Pope.

. And pardon craved for his so rash default. Spenser. Regardless of our merit or default. Pope.

Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay.

egraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me Jer. ii. 21.

t as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. He did again to extol and deify the pope. Bacon.