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To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.

A figure with two sides or surfaces. Buchanan.

At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. [R.]

A fight; contest. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix. Hutton.

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field. Spenser.

threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the publ…

To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

f form; unlikeness in form. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.

Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.] Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden.

The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth. [R.]

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. Shak.

Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.

Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." Sir H. Wotton.

Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. Divergent series. (Math.) See Diverging series, under Diverging.