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The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.

Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.

; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

Demolition.

Sign; indication. [R.]

The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. [Archaic] False is the reply of Cain, upon the denouncement of his curse. Sir T. Browne.

Act of departing; departure. [Obs.] Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.

Deploration. [Obs.]

The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. -Wilhelm. Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. Scott.

the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing. The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties. Swift.

Depravity. [Obs.] Milton.

Serving to depress. [R.] "Depriment muscles." Derham.

Deprivation. [R.]

The act of deraigning. [Obs.]

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

That which is derived; deduction; inference. [Obs.] I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.