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To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.] We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.

ding to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.

ition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54.

A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt est…

Dividend; share. [Obs.] Foxe.

One who deals out to each his share. Who made me a judge or a divider over you Luke xii. 14.

Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.

That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance.

g; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.

dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping or silent partner. -- Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dorm…

ack over the same ground, or in an opposite direction. Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. Dryden. Doubling and doubling with laborious walk. Wordsworth.

A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. Dryden.

A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] Hare.

viction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart. Hare.

reason. "Under the empire of facts." M. Arnold. Another force which, in the Middle Ages, shared with chivalry the empire over the minds of men. A. W. Ward. Celestial empire. See under Celestial. -- Empire City, a common designation of the city of New York. -- Empire State, a common designation of the State of New Yor…

elf; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to en…

To long after; to desire strongly; to covet. Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. T. Gray.

In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.

scerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.