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Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. Dalmatian dog (Zoöl.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

eacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. Macaulay.

A tithing. [Obs.] State Trials (1630).

One who decimates. South.

blic recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

Transformation; change of shape.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.

Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

Of or pertaining to the skin.