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That may or should be deprecated. Paley.

scribing; also that which is dictated. It affords security against the dictation of laws. Paley.

Pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic. Astle.

r the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.

Having two sepals; two-sepaled.

To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic] Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.

To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all. Waller.

h. Shak. To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space. Paley.

Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley.

Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

ng to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley.

xt. Done to death by slanderous tongues. Shak. The ground of the difficulty is done away. Paley. Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris…

. collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic. Paley.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! Shak. All over earthy, like a piece of earth. Tennyson.

ad a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley.

, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. Paley.

s Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration of Antler…

A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).