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by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

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

e body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. Perhaps my God, though he be far before, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more -May strengthen my decays. Herbert. His [Johnson's] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay. Macaulay. Which has caused the decay of the conson…

d. 2 Tim. iii. 13. Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. What can 'scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Milton.

his day I have begot whom I declare My only Son. Milton. The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps. xix. 1.

To decorate; to beautify. [Obs.] To decore and beautify the house of God. E. Hall.

Having the force of a decree; determining. The will of God is either decretive or perceptive. Bates.

ruth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or 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 pedigre…

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

ink; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. For never can I deem him less him less than god. Dryden.

A goddess. [Obs.] Croft.

failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. "Defection and falling away from God." Sir W. Raleigh. The general defection of the whole realm. Sir J. Davies.

To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Chaucer. Which God defend that I should wring from him. Shak.

ntain security; a guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

y the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

uce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] "The deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.

Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. "A deifical communion." Homilies.

Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

Godlike, or of a godlike form. Dr. H. More.

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Cæsar was deified.