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To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.] You are both deciphered, . . . For villains. Shak.

heatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft.

able of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.

Capable of being wearied or tired out. [R.] Glanvill.

to purify, as from that which materializes. We defecate the notion from materiality. Glanvill. Defecated from all the impurities of sense. Bp. Warburton.

. The lord mayor craves aid . . . to defend the city. Shak. God defend the right! Shak. A village near it was defended by the river. Clarendon.

Delusive; fallacious. Glanvill.

doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.

nd devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank. His estate . . . devolved to Lord Somerville. Johnson.

Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.

mposure or equanimity; to agitate. Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity. Glanvill.

To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." James White.

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

Disposed. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A divisible substance. Glanvill.

ic way. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

ess of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument. Glanvill.

A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.

oughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.