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Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

on; dogma. [Obs.] Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time. I. Watts.

Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." Macaulay.

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

elief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation. In need of every kind of relief and easement. Burke.

up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

The operation performed with an écraseur.

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

Instigation; incitement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

al parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.

Elementary. [Obs.] Skelton.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.