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Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.] To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. Shak.

The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

Derived; derivative. [R.] H. Taylor. -- n.

ommunication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.

Relating to derivation. Earle.

Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the…

A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. [Written also dewata.]

Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. [Obs.] Frampton.

Elevated; raised aloft. [Poetic] Milton.

Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.

The quality of being elevated.

y to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.

A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.

er feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]

Same as Æstival, Æstivate, etc.

The act of heaping up. [Obs.] Bailey.

t; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.