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ing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secr…

One who desecrates. "Desecrators of the church." Morley.

One who, or that which, desiccates.

Desiccative.

An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating. [R.]

Same as Desolater. Byron.

Causing desolation. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.

An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.

A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructive and the artificial death of things. Boyle.

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness. The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.

Desultory. [R.]

Leaping or skipping about. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White.

One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. Shak. A deathbed's detector of the heart. Young. Bank-note detector, a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them. -- Detector l. See under Lock.

A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.

One who determines. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who, or that which, detonates.

Same as Detortion.