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To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall. I expected the fabric of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. Tillotson.

The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ing us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. Latham.

Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.

To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism.

To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." Tennyson.

The act of depressing.

To sing a variation or accomplishment.

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation. Oblique descension (Astron.), the degree or arc of the equator which descends, with a celestial object, below the horizon of an oblique sphere. -- Right descension, the degree or arc of the equator which descends below the horizon of a ri…

Despiteous; very angry; cruel. [Obs.] He was to sinful man not despitous. Chaucer. - De*spit"ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture. Milton.

Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly. 'T is a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak.

h dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew. The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so. A. B. Saxton.

Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left. On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew. Pope.

Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak.