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A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

e act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. A miniser deprived for inconformity. Bacon.

Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.

To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.

To turn away. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

ut of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

An animal having only two digits.

Having only two digits; two-toed.

evelops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

e nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.

To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken. This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson (More's Utopia). I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.…

The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement. The world's opinion or diminution of me. Eikon Basilike. Nor thinks it diminution to be ranked In military honor next. Philips.

A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.

ction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18.

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

To digest. [Obs.] Bacon.

Digestion. [Obs.]