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Despitefully. [Obs.]

f men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. Detail drawing, a drawing of the full size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc. -- In detail, in subdivisions; part by part; item; circumstantially; with particularity.

e; to condemn. [Obs.] The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale.

a form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained. Writ of detinue (Law), one that lies against him who wrongfully detains goods or chattels delivered to him, or in possession, to recover the thing itself, or its value and damages, from the detainer. It is now in a great measure superseded by…

To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic] Other might be determined thereby. Fuller.

real compound. J. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.

Anything fancifully conceived. Shak.

Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.

Full of devotion. [R.]

In a dexterous manner; skillfully.

ntire compass of tones. Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Dryden.

Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer. A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human things. Milton.

cally in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. Sir H. Sidney. How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy Shak.

Digression. [Obs.] Fuller.

on; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. [R.] Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now. Shak.

Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.

Having no dinner. Fuller.

Full of din. [Scot.] Burns.

To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.

According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.