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To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.

Unequal; dissimilar; separate. Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. Coleridge.

Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade. Marryat.

The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unduly. [Obs.]

Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. [Obs.]

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

A sounding through.

To make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller.

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. [R.] Bacon.

The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.

nce in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

Continuing; not completed; implying duration. Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it as going on. J. Byrne.

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. Evelyn.

The act of sweetening or edulcorating.

Tending to

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.