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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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DISJUDICATION n.

Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. [Obs.] Boyle.

DISLOCATE v. 2 definitions

neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.…

DISLOCATION n. 3 definitions

from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

DISQUALIFICATION n. 2 definitions

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

DISSYLLABIFICATION n.

DIVARICATE v. 5 definitions

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

DIVARICATELY adv.

With divarication.

DIVARICATION n. 3 definitions

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

To pull in pieces. [Obs. or R.]

DIVERSIFICATION n. 2 definitions

State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.

DODECATEMORY n.

A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

DOMESTICATE v. 3 definitions

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

DOMESTICATION n.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

DOMESTICATOR n.

One who domesticates.

A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

DULCIFICATION n.

The act of dulcifying or sweetening. Boyle.

DUPLICATE a. 6 definitions

Double; twofold. Duplicate proportion or ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicat…

DUPLICATION n. 2 definitions

The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.