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to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the…

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar. The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva. Lauder Brunton.

tive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope.

disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarmed and disg…

Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian.

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.

Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.

Act of disporting; diversion; play. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.

That which excites distaste or aversion. [Obs.] Whitlock.

constitute a difference; to make to differ. Who distinguisheth thee 1 Cor. iv. 7. (Douay version).

tate of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.

That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot.

Diversion; amusement; recreation. [R.]

terns. Domino theory. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orientation was as politically…

The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).