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Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.

rn of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive. Development theory (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, a…

Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company. What made directors cheat in South-Sea year Pope.

Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.

Exploration; examination. [Obs.]

To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

areling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck. Dressed myself in such humility. Shak. Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return. Shak.

The science or theory of church building and decoration.

y, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.

A panegyrical funeral oration.

Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.

That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor.

to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.