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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,485 words match “PROCESS”

DEDUCE v.
To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of. O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the…
DEDUCTION n. 2 definitions
Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely.
DEDUCTIVE a.
l knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
DEEMSTER n.
A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell.
DEFECATION n.
The act or process of voiding excrement.
DEFERVESCENCE; DEFERVESCENCY n.
The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.
DEFIBRINATION n.
The act or process of depriving of fibrin.
DEFLAGRATION n.
The act or process of deflagrating.
DEGLAZING n.
The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.
DEGLUTITION n.
The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.
DEHYDRATION n.
The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
DEHYDROGENATION n.
The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.
DELIMITATION n.
The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
DELIQUESCENCE n.
The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.
DEMONSTRATION n.
The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself.
DENATIONALIZATION n.
The or process of denationalizing.
DENITRIFICATION n.
The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.
DEOXIDATION n.
The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.
DEPARTURE n.
Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. Departure from this happy place. Milton.
DEPLETION n.
the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
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