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The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate. When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. Tillotson.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey.

Worse state or quality; inferiority. "The deteriority of the diet." [R.] Ray.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets. [R.]

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue. Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious. Bp. Atterbury. Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. Milton.…

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

nction between real and apparent good. The distinction betwixt the animal kingdom and the inferior parts of matter. Locke.

A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man. God . . . employing these subservient divinities. Cheyne.

Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.

of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion. It will be rain to-night. Let it come down. Shak. I sit me down beside the hazel grove.…

Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing. Raymond.

wdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments. [Colloq.]

An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.

commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. "To eke my pain." Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.