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Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom. And pardon craved for his so rash default. Spenser. Regardless of our merit or default. Pope.

early exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.

examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. A consummate work of deliberative wisdom. Bancroft. The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.

An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

The dominion of demons. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

A small copper coin of insignificant value. My dukedom to a beggarly denier. Shak.

en; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges. As soon as denizened, they domineer. Dryden.

A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.

torehouse. The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom. Brit Critic (1794).

ve that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke.

t out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17. It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. Macaulay.

of a sheriff, of a township, etc. There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king. 1 Kings xxii. 47. God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight. Shak.

A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.

upon me. South. The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. The argument derivable from the doxologies. J. H. Newman.

or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

titution; gloominess. You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak.

Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality. A desperate offendress against nature. Shak. The most desperate of reprobates. Macaulay.

to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

ully use you. Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdom ii. 19.

s then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. 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.