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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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DEPHLEGMATORY a.
Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
DEPILATORY a. 2 definitions
Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n.
DEPLETORY a.
Serving to deplete.
DEPOPULATOR n.
One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
DEPOSITOR n.
One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
DEPOSITORY n. 2 definitions
A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.
DEPRECATOR n.
One who deprecates.
DEPRECATORY a.
ng to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.
DEPRECIATOR n.
One who depreciates.
DEPRECIATORY a.
Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.
DEPREDATOR n.
One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
DEPREDATORY a.
Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
DEPRESSOMOTOR a. 2 definitions
Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.
DEPURATOR n.
One who, or that which, cleanses.
DEPURATORY a.
Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
DEPURGATORY a.
Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
DEPUTATOR n.
One who deputes, or makes a deputation. [R.] Locke.
DEROGATOR n.
A detractor.
DEROGATORILY adv.
In a derogatory manner; disparagingly. Aubrey.
DEROGATORINESS n.
Quality of being derogatory.
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