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To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. "A deifical communion." Homilies.

The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.

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

One who deifies.

Godlike, or of a godlike form. Dr. H. More.

Likeness to deity. [Obs.]

the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Cæsar was deified.

Assuaging pain. [Obs.] Bailey.

Producing, or tending to produce, delirium. -- n.

To deify in part. Cowper.

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

Bearing teeth; dentigerous.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

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

Discrimination.

The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.