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The act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

efiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

The act of defining; definition; description. [Obs.] Shak.

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

Privation by fraud; defrauding. [Obs.] Milton.

Payment of charges.

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. [R.]

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [R.] Milton.

Hindrance. [Obs.] Gower.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. [Obs.] Heywood.

Demented; dementate. [R.] J. H. Newman.

Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.

The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.

Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.

; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

Demolition.

Sign; indication. [R.]

The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. [Archaic] False is the reply of Cain, upon the denouncement of his curse. Sir T. Browne.