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act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. [R.] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate. Shak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.

usiness. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.

Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation. Carlyle.

Dilettanteish.

Same as Dilettanteism. F. Harrison.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.

The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.

To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

m and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

e found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10.

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

f the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.

ouching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees. Spelman.

hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation. David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies. South.

To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole. Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange.

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

Double. Duple ratio (Math.), that in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.