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One who, or that which, detonates.

Deprived of virginity. [R.]

A deflouring. [R.] Feltham.

Governed by deacons. "Diaconate church." T. Goodwin.

The act of thinking worthy; honor. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effe…

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. [R.] Blount.

Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.

t; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish. Cowper. To discriminate the goats from the sheep. Barrow.

In a discriminating manner; distinctly.

The state of being discriminated; distinctness.

a difference; distinguishing. -- Dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly, adv. And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. Canning.

The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench.

king a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic. That peculiar and discriminative form of life. Johnson.

With discrimination or distinction. J. Foster.

One who discriminates.

Discriminative.

r affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.