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A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam.

To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [Obs.] "Declaims his cause." South.

cing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.

Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory. "Declarative laws." Baker. The "vox populi," so declarative on the same side. Swift.

that which is seemly or suitable. Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom. Shak.

A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other. Addison.

his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.

at; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a come in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).

mors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

hat third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law. Hallam.

sdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.

The sudden disappearance of inflammation.

That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of Ant: merit. They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action. Burke. Secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offense. Sir W. Temple.

tance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i

ch as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials. Hallam.

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.] Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall.