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dinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördi…

The pomp or assembly at a coronation. Pope.

Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow. [Obs.]

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties. Macaulay.

stioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

The act of ungluing.

The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

The or process of denationalizing.

To divest or deprive of national character or rights. Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett. An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.

Denization; denizening. Abbott.

That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denominatio…

Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.

A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.

One imbued with a denominational spirit. The Century.