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That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

The act of desynonymizing.

To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench.

A Ceylonese boat. See Doni.

Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies.

Of or pertaining to Dionysus or to the Dionysia; Bacchic; as, a Dionysiac festival; the Dionysiac theater at Athens.

Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.

obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

The condition of being diplostemonous.

To free from company; to dissociate. [R.] It she be alone now, and discompanied. B. Jonson.

Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.

Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Obs.] Milton.

A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

See Doña.

Deaf; stupid.[Prov. Eng.] My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. Sir W. Scott.

A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.

Earnest money. Same as Arles penny. [Obs.]