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Secretly; grievously; mournfully. [Obs.] Spenser.

consecrate. The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated. W. Tooke. The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon.

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.

Contemptuously.

To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine. [Obs.] The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak.

redit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton.

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20.

In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously. Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly. Shak.

or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act. "Diabolic power." Milton. "The diabolical institution." Motley. -- Di`a*bol"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Di`a*bol"ic*al*ness, n.

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

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

To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.

In a different manner; variously.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]

To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. [R.] Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now. Shak.

In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity. Ye diligently keep commandments of the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 17.

Disastrously. [Obs.] Drayton.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.