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Act of digladiating. [Obs.] "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.

Bilingualism. [R.] Earle.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

The act of thinking worthy; honor. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Worthy; honorable; deserving. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of dignifying; exaltation.

Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.

To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor. Your worth will dignity our feast. B. Jonson.

One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings. Shak.

Distinguishing mark; diagnostic. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having two angles. Smart.

A digraph.

Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

Of or pertaining to a digraph. H. Sweet.

ct of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them. Sir W. Temple.

Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. T. Warton.

Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. Johnson.

By way of digression.