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in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. Deviation of a falling body (Physics), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth. -- Deviation of…

at difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. A. J. Ellis.

A writer of dialogues. P. Skelton.

To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis. The mind which dictated the Iliad. Wayland. Pages dictated by the Holy Spirit. Macaulay.

eir meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. Johnson.

., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer. A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human things. Milton.

Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra. Diophantine analysis (Alg.), that branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x2 + y2 an exact s…

The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.

hat depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. [R.] J. Foster.

A writer of dissertations.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.

Disagreement; difference. Related with some divergence by other writers. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

oritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange. Clerk, draw a deed of gift. Shak.

Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.

forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.