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ker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.

lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign. Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.

son or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

ne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.

The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.

The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age. [Burlesque] On her withered dewlap pour the ale. Shak.

ry limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intellect.

by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch." Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). -- To die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.

lix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer. A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human things. Milton.

y; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint…

To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.] Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.

use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia. -- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684). -- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

aining, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

upted; broken off. A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.

inute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

r is discretion. Shak. The greatest parts without discretion may be fatal to their owner. Hume.

A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.

ncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.