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Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.

To void excrement.

The act or process of voiding excrement.

Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. Macaulay. Deficient number. (Arith.) See under…

To fix; to fasten; to establish. [Obs.] "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.

One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

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

To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. He did again to extol and deify the pope. Bacon.

attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ. Milman.

Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.

The discharge of excrement.

That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.

f gratification of mind; a high-wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Shak. A fool hath no delight in understanding. Prov. xviii. 2.

mind. W. Irving. The delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament). Motley. Delirium tremens (. Etym: [L., trembling delirium] (Med.), a violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolonged use of intoxicating liquors. -- Traumatic delirium (Med.), a variety of delirium following injury.

Concealment; seclusion; retirement. The delitescence of mental activities. Sir W. Hamilton.

According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.

Act of departing; departure. [Obs.] Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.

Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.