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Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.

Disfiguration; mutilation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen. Gray.

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. Johnson.

's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . .…

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degeneracy.

or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. Bates.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

To disintegrate. [Obs.]

To swear solemnly; to take an oath. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of swearing solemnly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A tearing in pieces. [Obs.] Bailey.

sequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." Shak.