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To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest. Hammond.

The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.

One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

One who, or that which, devastates. Emerson.

One who, or that which, deviates.

Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. [R.] Tully.

A worshiper; one given to devotion. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

, turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.

One skilled in dialectics.

ce and distress, and invested with unlimited power. Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.

Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. Military powers quite dictatorial. W. Irving.

Dictatorial. [Obs.]

The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial. Milton.

A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.

One who, or that which, differentiates.

See Digester.

A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

One who causes dilapidation. Strype.