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ving 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 . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a s…

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degeneracy.

growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. Bates.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Degenerate; base. [Obs.] "Degenerous passions." Dryden. "Degenerous practices." South.

Basely. [Obs.]

A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.

To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] Cockeram.

One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.

of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.

One who, or that which, determines or decides.

One who dethrones.

One who dines.

One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.

An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

Having no dinner. Fuller.

Of or pertaining to dinner. [R.] The dinnerly officer. Copley.

One who belongs to a diocese. [Obs.] Bacon.