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Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.

Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.] To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. Shak.

ge; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.

An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).

An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera. [Written also Dermaptera, and Dermatoptera.]

Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.

ognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.] Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

Aptitude for teaching. Hare.

To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.

Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [R.]

Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

Dealing; transaction. [Obs.] Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory. Beau. & Fl.

Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious. It is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to society. Addison. Satire 's my…

To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.

associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.

ive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes…

Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.