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The act of coöperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

orating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

Cure; healing. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Act of gilding. [Obs.]

ed token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.

The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.

Act of deconcentrating. [R.]

way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

= Memorial Day. [U. S.]

Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.

Disfiguration; mutilation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. Johnson.

or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. Bates.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

The act of swearing solemnly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A tearing in pieces. [Obs.] Bailey.