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CORRESPONDENTLY adv.
In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
CORRODENT a. 2 definitions
Corrosive. [R.] Bp. King.
CREDENT a. 2 definitions
Believing; giving credence; credulous. [R.] If with too credent esr you list songs. Shak.
CREDENTIAL a. 3 definitions
Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. Their credential letters on both sides. Camden.
CURVIDENTATE a.
Having curved teeth.
DECADENT a.
Decaying; deteriorating.
DECEDENT a. 2 definitions
Removing; departing. Ash.
DECEMDENTATE a.
Having ten points or teeth.
DEDENTITION n.
The shedding of teeth. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
DEPENDENT a. 4 definitions
Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
DEPENDENTLY adv.
In a dependent manner.
DESCENDENT a.
falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
DESPONDENT a.
Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv.
DIFFIDENT a. 2 definitions
Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. [Archaic] You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth.
DIFFIDENTLY adv.
In a diffident manner. To stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array. Hobbes.
DISAPPENDENT a.
Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [R.]
DISCORRESPONDENT a.
Incongruous. W. Montagu.
DISOCCIDENT v.
To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.
DISSIDENT a. 2 definitions
No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia).
DISSIDENTLY adv.
In a dissident manner.
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