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of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17. It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. Macaulay.

an deputed of the king to hear thee. 2. Sam. xv. 3. Some persons, deputed by a meeting. Macaulay.

nguage was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unl…

ption of public creditors. A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.

n another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.

Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair. Macaulay.

to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort. "Desperate expedients." Macaulay.

Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.

on of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.

nds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.

One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay.

ers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zoöl.), a very savage carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania (Dasyurus, or Diabolus, ursinus). -- To play devil with, to molest extremely; to ruin. [Low]

ressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated by a fervent spirit of devotion. Macaulay.

nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs. His rare skill in diagnostics. Macaulay.

rectly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.

nuensis. The mind which dictated the Iliad. Wayland. Pages dictated by the Holy Spirit. Macaulay.

ed power. Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.

c essays. "Didactical writings." Jer. Taylor. The finest didactic poem in any language. Macaulay.

e sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson.