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DELITIGATION n.
Chiding; brawl. [Obs.]
DEMISABILITY n.
The state of being demisable.
DEMOLITION n.
ucture; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.
DEMOLITIONIST n.
A demolisher. [R.] Carlyle.
DEMONSTRABILITY n.
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
DENDROLITE n.
A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.
DEPLORABILITY n.
Deplorableness. Stormonth.
DESCENDIBILITY n.
The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
DESIRABILITY n.
The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
DESPICABILITY n.
Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.
DESTRUCTIBILITY n.
The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.
DETERMINABILITY n.
The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.
DETESTABILITY n.
Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.
DEVOTIONALITY n.
The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
DEXTRALITY n.
The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. Sir T. Browne.
DIFFICILITATE v.
To make difficult. [Obs.] W. Montagu.
DIFFUSIBILITY n.
The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
DIGESTIBILITY n.
The quality of being digestible.
DILATABILITY n.
The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility. Ray.
DISABILITY n. 2 definitions
State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.
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