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The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Divestiture. [Obs.]

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

A dormitory. [Obs.] Bacon.

Relating to dramaturgy.

One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.

The art of dramatic composition and representation.

ing to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions. [Obs.] Burrill.

Guidance. [Obs.] South.

A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.

See Electropuncture.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

Enactment; resolution. [Obs.] Shak.

A cincture. [Poetic] The vast encincture of that gloomy sea. Wordsworth.

To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone.

The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

Commotion. [Obs.] Chapman.

A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.

Exhaustion. Wraxall.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.