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A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine. Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis, or Dammara, orientalis), yielding dammar.

A large tree of the order Coniferæ, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.

o adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. Shak.

The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.

Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature. A creature unprepared unmeet for dealth, And to transport him in the mind hi is, Were damnable. Shak.

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.

In a manner to incur sever

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

Doo "Damnatory invectives." Hallam.

Hateful; detestable; abominable. But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. Shak.

Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.

That which causes damage or loss.

To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to imparir. [R.] This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Milton.

That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.

Tendency to bring damnation. "The damningness of them [sins]." Hammond.

Harm; detriment, either to character or property.

See Damsel. [Archaic]

A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.

Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. Milton.