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hich we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Shak. Destruction of venerable establishment. Hallam.

practice, custom, or fashion. The desuetude abrogated the law, which, before, custom had established. Jer. Taylor.

Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden.

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.

diet. Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.

To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.…

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. I. Taylor. It is the dissidence of dissent. Burke.

One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidencI. Taylor.

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.

Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.

To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

der of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, bl…

Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

ssedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in de…

Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay. He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage. Eccentric anomaly.…