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o deteriorate. When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. Tillotson.

To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart. Till he these words to him deliver might. Spenser. Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. Bacon.

ragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.

e fabric of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. Tillotson.

demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

verse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer.

A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel. [Obs.] To go on now with my first dependence. Beau. & Fl.

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

gh that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.

tism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.

ect preceded by to or for. We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. Milton. Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. Tennyson. Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way. Longfellow.

destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. Wordsworth. Destructive distillation. See Distillation. -- Destructive sorties ( (Logic), a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio…

f or separate from anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.

nces, or difficulty, risk, etc. Addison. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Tillotson. My own face deters me from my glass. Prior.

les of religion are already either determinately true or false, before you think of them. Tillotson.

been determined by the view or sight. Bacon. Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me Shak.