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ired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith.

of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

In the manner or nature of a dialogue. Goldsmith.

he substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

To manifest without design; to show. The youth discovered a taste for sculpture. C. J. Smith.

of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.

l well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

way; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.

uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

ips. Prov. xxvi. 24. He [an enemy] dissembles when he assumes an air of friendship. C. J. Smith.

esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent. Melted in the crucible dissolvents. A. Smith. The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce. Mothley.

t] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton.

not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner. He passed me with a distant bow. Goldsmith.

t the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. Goldsmith.

iverted with works of wit and humor. We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy. C. J. Smith.

st one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out. Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out. Goldsmith. To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival. Emerson.

d died as flowers do now." Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." D…