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. And pardon craved for his so rash default. Spenser. Regardless of our merit or default. Pope.

Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay.

egraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me Jer. ii. 21.

t as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. He did again to extol and deify the pope. Bacon.

chsafe; to condescend; -- followed by an infinitive. O deign to visit our forsaken seats. Pope. Yet not Lord Cranstone deigned she greet. Sir W. Scott. Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see. Macaulay.

s of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind. Pope.

Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness. The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind. W. Irving. The delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament). Motley. Delirium tremens (. Etym: [L., trembling delirium] (Med.), a violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolong…

es have delivered her over. Shak. The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Pope.

armies; the land is deluged with woe. At length corruption, like a general fldeluge all. Pope.

The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope.

ily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak.

Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Encho…

ruple. All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, "Do; and we go snacks." Pope.

A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." Pope. Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir W. Scott.

uest. Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies Pope. To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it. J. Edwards.

urse of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

d by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.

To depopulate. [Obs.]