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Gilded. [Obs.]

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

Deprived of color.

To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize. [R.]

To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.

ich is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors. Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms. Thacke…

To bring to shame; to disgrace. [Obs.] Bailey.

combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen. Gray.

's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . .…

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degeneracy.

To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.

To disintegrate. [Obs.]

To swear solemnly; to take an oath. [Obs.] Cockeram.

sequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." Shak.

r deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.

The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

To strip off the bark; to peel. [Obs.] Ash.

To madden; to rave. [Obs.] An infatuating and delirating spirit in it. Holland.