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After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

A sycophantic courtier. B. Jonson.

Relating or belonging to a court.

The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor. Swift.

A court or inclosure attached to a house.

A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.

b of the choicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor.

One who deflours; a ravisher.

A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.

usly; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20.

That may be devoured.

One who, or that which, devours.

In a devouring manner.

Indian millet. See Durra.

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21.…

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.

The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.

One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.