Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 30

Deodorizer (n.) 防臭劑 He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.

Deonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.

Deontological (a.) Pertaining to deontology.

Deontologist (n.) One versed in deontology.

Deontology (n.) 義務論 The science relates to duty or moral obligation. -- J. Bentham.

Deoperculate (a.) (Bot.) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

Deoppilate (v. t.) To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [Obs.] -- Boyle.

Deoppilation (n.) Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Deoppilative (a. & n.) (Med.) Deobstruent; aperient. [Obs.] -- Harvey.

Deordination (n.) Disorder; dissoluteness. [Obs.]

Excess of riot and deordination. -- Jer. Taylor.

Deosculate (v. t.) To kiss warmly. [Obs.] -- De*os`cu*la"tion, n. [Obs.]

Deoxidate (v. t.) (Chem.) To deoxidize.

Deoxidation (n.) (Chem.) The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidization (n.) (Chem.) Deoxidation.

Deoxidize (v. t.) (Chem.) To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidizer (n.) (Chem.) That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.

Deoxygenate (v. t.) (Chem.) To deoxidize. [Obs.]

Deoxygenation (n.) (Chem.) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

Deoxygenize (v. t.) (Chem.) To deoxidize.

Depaint (p. p.) Painted. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Depainted (imp. & p. p.) of Depaint.

Depainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depaint.

Depaint (v. t.) 【古】描寫 To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [Obs.]

And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see. -- Spenser.

In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. -- Holland.

Depaint (v. t.) To mark with, or as with, color; to color.

Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. -- Fairfax.

Depaint (p. p.) See {Depict}, p. p. Painted. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Depainter (n.) One who depaints. [Obs.]

Depardieux (interj.) In God's name; certainly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Departed (imp. & p. p.) of Depart.

Departing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depart.

Depart (v. i.) 【書】起程,出發;離開,離去 [+from/ for];背離,違反 [+from];死,去世 To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Depart (v. i.) To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination.

I will depart to mine own land. -- Num. x. 30.

Ere thou from hence depart. -- Milton.

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. -- Shak.

Depart (v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading.

If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. -- Madison.

Depart (v. i.) To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. -- 1 Sam. iv. 21.

Depart (v. i.) To quit this world; to die.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. -- Luke ii. 29.

To depart with, To resign; to part with. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Depart (v. t.) To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.]

Till death departed them, this life they lead. -- Chaucer.

Depart (v. t.) To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.]

And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. -- Chaucer.

Depart (v. t.) To leave; to depart from. "He departed this life." -- Addison. "Ere I depart his house." -- Shak.

Depart (n.) Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.]

The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. -- Bacon.

Depart (n.) A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.]

At my depart for France. -- Shak.

Your loss and his depart. -- Shak.

Depart (v.) Move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" [syn: {go}, {go away}, {depart}] [ant: {come}, {come up}].

Depart (v.) Be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: {deviate}, {vary}, {diverge}, {depart}] [ant: {conform}].

Depart (v.) Leave; "The family took off for Florida" [syn: {depart}, {part}, {start}, {start out}, {set forth}, {set off}, {set out}, {take off}].

Depart (v.) Go away or leave [syn: {depart}, {take leave}, {quit}] [ant: {stay}].

Depart (v.) Remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" [syn: {leave}, {depart}, {pull up stakes}].

Depart (v.) Wander from a direct or straight course [syn: {sidetrack}, {depart}, {digress}, {straggle}].

Departable (a.) Divisible. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

Departer (n.) One who refines metals by separation. [Obs.]

Departer (n.) One who departs.

Departer (n.) Someone who leaves [syn: departer, leaver, goer].

Department (n.) (行政,企業等的)部;司;局;處;科;部門 [C] [G];(大學的)系 [C] [G] Act of departing; departure. [Obs.]

Sudden departments from one extreme to another. -- Wotton.

Department (n.) A part, portion, or subdivision.

Department (n.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.

Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. -- Macaulay.

Department (n.) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.

Department (n.) A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

Department (n.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

Department (n.) A specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury" [syn: {department}, {section}].

Department (n.) The territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France).

Department (n.) A specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature".

Department. () A portion of a country. In France, the country is divided into departments, which are somewhat similar to the counties in this country. The United States have been divided into military departments, including certain portions of the country. 1 Pet. 293.

Department. () By department is also meant the division of authority, as, the department of state, of the navy, &c.

Departmental (a.) 部門的;分部的 Pertaining to a department or division. --Burke.

Departmental (a.) Of or relating to a department; "departmental policy".

Departure (n.) 離開;出發,起程 [C] [U] [+for];背離,違背,變更 [C] [+from] Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.]

No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. -- Milton.

Departure (n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

Departure from this happy place. -- Milton.

Departure (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.

The time of my departure is at hand. -- 2 Tim. iv. 6.

His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. -- Sir P. Sidney.

Departure (n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.

Any departure from a national standard. -- Prescott.

Departure (n.) (Law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. -- Bouvier.

Departure (n.) (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course.

{To take a departure} (Nav. & Surv.), To ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.

Syn: Death; demise; release. See Death.

Departure (n.) The act of departing [syn: {departure}, {going}, {going away}, {leaving}].

Departure (n.) A variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: {deviation}, {divergence}, {departure}, {difference}].

Departure (n.) Euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: {passing}, {loss}, {departure}, {exit}, {expiration}, {going}, {release}].

Departure, () pleading. Said to be when a party quits or departs from the case, or defence, which he has first made, and has recourse to another; it is when his replication or rejoinder contains matter not pursuant to the declaration, or plea, and which does not support and fortify it. Co. Litt. 304, a; 2 Saund. 84, a, n. (1); 2 Wils. 98; 1 Chit. Pl. 619. The following example will illustrate what is a departure: if to assumpsit, the defendant plead infancy, and to a replication of necessaries, rejoin, duress, payment, release, &c., the rejoinder is a departure, and a good cause of demurrer, because the defendant quits or departs from the case or defence which he first made, though either of these matters, newly pleaded, would have been a good bar, if first pleaded as such.

Departure, () A departure in pleading is never allowed, for the record would, by such means, be spun out into endless prolixity; for he who has departed from and relinquished his first plea, might resort to a second, third, fourth, or even fortieth defence; pleading would, by such means, become infinite. He who had a bad cause, would never be brought to issue, and he who had a good one, would never obtain the end of his suit. Summary on Pleading, 92; 2 Saund. 84, a. n. (l); 16 East, R. 39; 1 M. & S. 395 Coin. Dig. Pleader, F 7, 11; Bac. Abr. Pleas, L; Vin. Abr. Departure; 1 Archb. Civ. Pl. 247, 253; 1 Chit. Pl. 618.

Departure, () A departure is cured by a verdict in favor of him who makes it, if the matter pleaded by way of departure is a sufficient answer, in substance, to what is before pleaded by the opposite party; that is, if it would have been sufficient, if pleaded in the first instance. 2 Saund. 84 1 Lill. Ab. 444.

Departure, () maritime law. A deviation from the course of the voyage insured.

Departure, () A departure is justifiable or not justifiable it is justifiable ill consequence of the stress of weather, to make necessary repairs, to succor a ship in distress, to avoid capture, of inability to navigate the ship, mutiny of the crew, or other compulsion. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1189.

Departure (n.) [ C ] (Leaving) (B1)(人、交通工具等)離開;啟程,出發 The fact of a person or vehicle, etc. leaving somewhere.

// There are several departures (= buses, trains, or aircraft leaving) for Paris every day.

// Our departure was delayed because of bad weather.

// Departure time.

Departure (n.) [ C ] (Leaving) 離職,辭職 The act of leaving a job.

// Everyone in the office was surprised by Graham's sudden departure.

Departure (n.) [ C ] (Chance) 偏離,背離,脫離 A change from what is expected, or from what has happened before.

// There can be no departure from the rules.

// Selling men's clothing is a new departure for the store.

Depascent (a.) Feeding. [R.]

Depasture (v. t. & i.) To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.]

Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. -- Blackstone.

A right to cut wood upon or departure land. -- Washburn.

Depatriate (v. t. & i.) To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.

Depauperated (imp. & p. p.) of Depauperate.

Depauperating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depauperate.

Depauperate (v. t. & i.) To make poor; to impoverish.

Depauperate (a.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.

Depauperize (v. t.) To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.

Depeach (v. t.) To discharge.

Depectible (a.) Tough; thick; capable of extension.

Depeculation (n.) A robbing or embezzlement.

Depeinct (v. t.) To paint.

Depended (imp. & p. p.) of Depend.

Depending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depend.

Depend (v. i.) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

Depend (v. i.) To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.

Depend (v. i.) To rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of.

Depend (v. i.) To trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; -- with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour.

Depend (v. i.) To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.

Depend (v. i.) To impend.

Dependable (a.) Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.

Dependant (n.) Alt. of Dependancy.

Dependance (n.) Alt. of Dependancy.

Dependancy (n.) 從屬;屬國;保護地;從屬物(= dependency See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.

Note: The forms dependant, dependance, dependancy are from the French; the forms dependent, etc., are from the Latin. Some authorities give preference to the form dependant when the word is a noun, thus distinguishing        it from the adjective, usually written dependent.

Dependance (n.) Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation].

Dependance (n.) The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else [syn: dependence, dependance, dependency].

Dependence (n.) The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

Dependence (n.) The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause).

The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another. -- Bp. Burnet.

Dependence (n.) Mutual connection and support; concatenation; systematic inter-relation.

So dark and so intricate of purpose, without any dependence or order. -- Sir T. More.

Dependence (n.) Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self; a lack of independence or self-sufficiency.

Syn: dependance, dependency.

Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy. -- Burke.

Dependence (n.) A resting with confidence; reliance; trust.

Affectionate dependence on the Creator is the spiritual life of the soul. -- T. Erskine.

Dependence (n.) That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.

Dependence (n.) That which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else.

Like a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough. -- Dryden.

Dependence (n.) A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel. [Obs.]

To go on now with my first dependence. -- Beau. & Fl.

Dependence (n.) The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else [syn: dependence, dependance, dependency].

Dependence (n.) Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation].

Dependencies (n. pl. ) of Dependency.

Dependency (n.) State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. -- Sir J. Reynolds.

So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. -- Bacon.

Dependency (n.) A thing hanging down; a dependence.

Dependency (n.) That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.

This earth and its dependencies. -- T. Burnet.

Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. -- Locke.

Dependency (n.) A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.

Note: Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in meaning to 3 and 4.

Dependency (n.) The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else [syn: dependence, dependance, dependency].

Dependency (n.) Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation].

Dependency (n.) A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency].

Dependent (a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

Dependent (a.) Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of independent. [Narrower terms: interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial; parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking; subordinate; underage; myrmecophilous; symbiotic] Also See: unfree.

England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. -- Macaulay.

Dependent (a.) Conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.

Syn: qualified.

Dependent (a.) Addicted to drugs.

Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.

Dependent covenant or Dependent contract (Law), One not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.

Dependent variable (Math.), A varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.

Dependent (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.

A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their part as witnesses. -- Hallam.

Dependent (n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence.

With all its circumstances and dependents. -- Prynne.

Note: See the Note under Dependant.

Dependent (a.) Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture" [ant: independent].

Dependent (a.) Contingent on something else [syn: dependent, dependant, qualified].

Dependent (a.) (Of a clause) Unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence" [syn: dependent, subordinate] [ant: independent, main(a)].

Dependent (a.) Held from above; "a pendant bunch of grapes" [syn: pendent, pendant, dependent].

Dependent (a.) Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: subject, dependent].

Dependent (a.) Addicted to a drug [syn: dependent, dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out].

Dependent (n.) A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) [syn: dependant, dependent].

Dependent (a.) Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Dependently (adv.) In a dependent manner.

Depender (n.) One who depends; a dependent.

Dependingly (adv.) As having dependence. -- Hale.

Depeople (v. t.) To depopulate. [Obs.]

Deperdit (n.) That which is lost or destroyed. [R.] -- Paley.

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