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extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect. "A man of perfect and consummate virtue." Addison. The little band held the post with consummate tenacity. Motley

In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [Obs.] Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak.

o reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. Macaulay.

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

d containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

aving the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek . Andrews.

A diplomatist.

To invest with a title o [R.] Wood.

To deprive of life. [R.] Cudworth.

The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.

To render smooth; to polish. [Obs.]

or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person. It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them. Locke. It is always very difficult to es…

Lifeless; dead. [R.] "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser.

Disinterred. [Obs.]