Search the Dictionary

ing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secr…

Desiccative.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating. [R.]

Causing desolation. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.

An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.

Leaping or skipping about. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White.

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. [R.] Tully.

, turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.

Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial. Milton.

done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

Discriminative.

Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.

Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.

Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive. Ed. Rev.