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Concealment; seclusion. The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency. Sir W. Scott.

To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize. If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. A. Cyc.

The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.

To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.

The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.

nt value; to withdraw from use, as money. They [gold mohurs] have been completely demonetized by the [East India] Company. R. Cobden.

le of profligate power and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army. Bancroft.

A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. Udall.

ls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett. An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.

a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.

The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had b…

To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. "Derisive taunts." Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly, adv. -- De*ri"sive*ness, n.

Terminal. Furthermore, b, as a desinential element, has a dynamic function. Fitzed. Hall.

te; to desynonymize. [R.] Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.

ower or inclination. -- In despite of, in defiance of; in spite of. See under Spite. "Seized my hand in despite of my efforts to the contrary." W. Irving. -- In your despite, in defiance or contempt of you; in spite of you. [Obs.]

growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind…