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A deserted condition. [R.] "The desertness of the country." Udall.

The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.

Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for. We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. Milton…

That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Heb. xi. 37.

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith.

h.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.

The addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.

A condition of the score beginning whendeuce, which decides the game.

The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc.

determination of the distinguishing characteristics as between two similar diseases or conditions.

That form or condition of magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetics.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

The property or condition of being dibasic.

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on). Who presumed to dictate to the sovereign. Macaulay.