DEROGATELY
DEROGATELY, adverb In a manner to lessen or take from.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DEROGATING
DEROGATING, participle present tense Annulling a part. Lessening by taking from.
DEROGATION
DEROGATION, noun1. The act of annulling or revoking a law, or some part of it. More generally, the act of taking away or destroying the value or effect of any thing, or of limit...
DEROGATIVE
DEROGATIVE, adjective Derogatory.
DEROGATORILY
DEROGATORILY, adverb In a detracting manner.
DEROGATORINESS
DEROGATORINESS, noun The quality of being derogatory.
DEROGATORY
DEROGATORY, adjective1. Detracting or tending to lessen by taking something from; that lessens the extent, effect or value; with to. Let us entertain no opinions derogatory to t...
DERRING
DERRING, adjective Daring.
DERVIS
DERVIS, noun A turkish priest or monk, who professes extreme poverty, and leads an austere life.
DESCANT
DESCANT, noun1. A song or tune composed in parts.2. A song or tune with various modulations.The wakeful nightingaleAll night long her amourous descant sung.3. A discourse; discu...
DESCANTING
DESCANTING, participle present tense Singing in parts or with various modulations; discoursing freely; commenting.DESCANTING, noun Remark; conjecture.
DESCEND
DESCEND, verb intransitive [Latin To climb.]1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable t...
DESCENDANT
DESCENDANT, noun Any person proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, in the line of generation, ad infinitum. We are all the descendants of Adam and Eve.
DESCENDENT
DESCENDENT, adjective1. Descending; falling; sinking.2. Proceeding from an original or ancestor.
DESCENDIBILITY
DESCENDIBILITY, noun The quality of being descendible, or capable of being trnasmitted from ancestors; as the descendibility of an estate or of a crown.
DESCENDIBLE
DESCENDIBLE, adjective1. That may be descended, or passed down; as, the hill is descendible2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir; as a descendible estate.
DESCENSION
DESCENSION, noun1. The act of going downwards; descent; a falling or sinking; declension; degradation.2. In astronomy, right descension is an arch of the equinoctial, intercepte...
DESCENSIONAL
DESCENSIONAL, adjective Pertaining to descent.
DESCENSIVE
DESCENSIVE, adjective Tending downwards; having power to descend.
DESCENT
DESCENT, noun1. The act of descending; the act of passing from a higher to a lower place, by any form of motion, as by walking, riding, rolling, sliding, sinking or falling.2. I...
DESCRIBABLE
DESCRIBABLE, adjective That may be described; capable of description.
DESCRIBE
DESCRIBE, verb transitive [Latin To write.]1. To delineate or mark the form or figure; as, to describe a circle by the compasses.2. To make or exhibit a figure by motion; as, a ...
DESCRIBED
DESCRIBED, participle passive Represented in form by marks or figures; delineated; represented by words or signs.
DESCRIBER
DESCRIBER, noun One who describes by marks, words or signs.
DESCRIBING
DESCRIBING, participle present tense Representing the form or figure of, by lines or marks; communicating a view of, by words or signs, or by naming the nature and properties.
DESCRIED
DESCRIED, participle passive Espied; discovered; seen.
DESCRIER
DESCRIER, noun One who espies, or discovers; a discoverer; a detecter.