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to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward.

One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.

Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.

t; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope.

carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince. Pope.

To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision called. Milton.

Solitary; sad. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. [Obs.] "Dernful noise." Spenser.

Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.

Misadventurous; unfortunate. [Obs.] Spenser.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Disadvantage; inconvenience. Bacon.

Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [R.]

Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent. One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.…

Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.

To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.

What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] Glanvill.