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To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.

To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine. [R.] Hales.

To disentangle. [R.] "To disintricate the question." Sir W. Hamilton.

neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.…

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

With divarication.

To pull in pieces. [Obs. or R.]

A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

Double; twofold. Duplicate proportion or ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicat…

To bring as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.

To beg. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To kill off; to destroy. [Obs.] Harvey.

with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

To empty. [Obs.] Harvey.

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

To clear of flesh; to excarnate. Dr. H. More.