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Show DE DE DE Your cruelty was fuch, as you would fpare hi life for many deathful torments Sidney Time itfelf, under the dearhful fhade of whof wings all things wither, hath wafted that livel virtue of nature in man, and beafts, and plants Rdlz‘ig}) Blood, death, and deathful deeds are in tha noife Milton Ruin, deftruétion at the utmoft point Thefe eyes behol The deathful {cene; princes.on princes roll'd Pope Dz'aTHLESS. adj. [from death.] Iminortal ; never-dying; everlafting God hath only immortality, though angels an human fouls be deathlefs Their temples wreath'd with leave Boyle that ftil renew : . For deatblfs laurel is the vi€tor's due Faith and hope themfelves fhall die Debate thy caufe with th ne and difcover not a fecret to afiofif}}fho‘" hinfaf Not fo firi@ly hath our Lord impos' Labour, as to debar us when we nee Refrefhment, whether food, or talk between Milton is employe in debarrin moft reafonSavift Food of the mind Civility, intended to make us eafy in laying chains and fetters upon us us of our wifhes, and in crofling ou able defires . a. [from bafe. 7o DEBA'SE 1. To reduc dtates Home fro intende a highe to teach tha to a lowe pleafur an {enfuality debafe men into beafts Breome on the 0dy[fey As much as you raife filver, you debafe gold, fo they are in the condition of two things put i oppofite fcales; as much as the one rifes, the othe falls Locke - Dryden 2. To make mean; to fink into meannefs ; to make defpicable ; to degrade Dr'ATHLIKE. adj. [death and like.] Re Itis a kind of taking God's name in vain, t debafe religion with fuch frivolous difputes Hooker A man of large poffeflions has not leifure t confider of every flight expence, and will not debafe himfelf to the management of every trifle Dryden - Reftraining others, yet himfelf not free Made impotent by pow'r, debas'd by dignity. Dryd - While deathlefs charity remains Prior dembling death; fill; gloomy; motionlefs ; placid ; calm ; peaceful 5 un diftarbed ; refembling either the horrours or the quietnefs of death ‘Why doft thou let thy brave foul lie fuppref In deatblike lumbers, while thy dangers crav Crafbaw A waking eye and hand A deathlike fleep ! A gentle wafting to immortal life Milton On feas, on earth, and all that in them dwell Waller A deatblike quiet and deep filence fell Black melancholy fits, and round her throw Pope - A deatblike flumber, and a dread repofe DEeaTn's-poor. [death and door.] A nea approach to death ; the gates of death wines &d¢. It is now alow phrafe I myfelf knew a perfon of great fanétity, wh was affli¢ted to death's-door with a-vomiting Taylor's Worthy Communicant There was a poor young woman, that ha brought herfelf even to death's-door with grief fo her fick hufband L'Efirange De'aruasman. n f [ death and man. Executioner; hangman; headfman; h that executes the fentence of death He's dead 53 I''m only Y03 forr L He had no other deathfinan Shakefpeare As deathfmer you have rid this fweet youh prince Shakefpeare. Dr'atawarcH. z f. [death and wazch. An infe€t that makes a tinkling noif like that of a watch, and is fuperftitioufly imagined to prognofticate death Th folem deathwatc click' the hou 3. To fink ; to vitiate with meannefs He ought to be careful of not letting his fubjec debafe his ftyle, and betray him into a meannefs o expreflion. Addifon Hunting after arguments to make good one fid of a queftion, and wholly to refufe thofe whic favour the other, is fo far from giving truth it due value, that it wholly debafes it Locke 4. 'To adulterate ; to leflen in value b bafe admixtures He reformed the coin, which was much adulte rated and debafed in the times and troubles o king Stephen Hale Words fo debas'd and hard, no fton Was hard enough to touch them on Hudibras DEeBA'SEMENT. 2. /. [from debafe.] 'Th att of debafing or degrading ; degradation It is a wretched debafement of that fprightly faculty, the tongue, thus to be made the interprete Government of the Tongue to a goat or boar Dera'$er. #n. /0 [from debafe.] He tha debafes; he that adulterates; he tha degrades another; he that finks th value of things, "or defiroys the dignit of perfons the | DEBA'TABLE Difpu aa_'j. [fi-c,m g'g&atg, Gay died ‘We learn to prefage approaching death in a fa table ; that which is, or may be, fubje& mily by ravens, and little worms, which we ‘therefare call a deathwatch Watts Mifers are muckworms, filkworms beaus And deathwatches phyficians Pope The French requefted, that the debatable ground and the Scottifh hoftages, might be reftored to th Hayward Scots 90 DEA'URATE «. a. {deauro, Latin. To gild, or cover with gold Dis Deaura'rion. #z [ [ from deaurate, The a& of gilding DeraccHA TION 7./. [debacchatio, La tin.] Araging; a madnefs D:4 9o Deea'rRe. v, 2. [from de and barba Latin.] To deprive of his beard. Dic o DeBa RE. . [debarquer, French. To difembark Di4 70 Dera'r. w. & [from ar. To exclude; to preclude; to fhut out fro any thing; to hinder Th fam boats an th fam buildings ar found in countries debarred from all commerce b unpaffable mountains, lakes, and deferts Raleigh's Effays to controverfy DEBA'TE #. [ [debat, French. 1. A perfonal difpute ; a controverfy A ‘way that men ordinarily ufe, to force other to fubmit to their judgments, and receive thei opinion in debate, is to require the adverfary t admit what they allege as a proof, er to aflign Locke better It is to diffufe a light over the underftanding in our enquiries after truth, and not to furnifh th tongue with debate and controverfy. W atts's Logick 2. A quarrel; a conteft: it is not no ufed of hoftile conteft Now, lords, if heav'n doth give fuccefsful en To this debate that bleedeth at our doors ‘We will our youth lead on to higher fields And draw no fwords but what are fanétified. Shak *T'is thine to ruin realms, o'erturn a ftate Betwixt the deareft friends to raife debate Dryden 70 DEBA'TE. @. a. [debatre, French.]. T controvert; to difpute; to contel Prover He could not debate any thing :E:hzu:!}:m commotion, even when the argumen ‘wag not o moment Clare Yo DEBA'TE. w. n 1. To deliberate. av been confi er' k ;10ur fev'ral fuit 2. To difpute and debated on. Sha He prefents that great foul debasi fubjeét of life and death with his inflmgat;ll;':ir;n:i]l DeBATEFUL adj. [from debate] 1. [Of perfons. Quarrelfome; contep tious 2. [Of things.] Contefted; occafionin quarrels. DeBA"TEMENT. 7. /. [from debate.] Con troverfy ; deliberation Without debatement further, more or lefs He fhould the bearers put to fudden death, Shakef DeBA'TER. 2. /. [from debate. tant ; a controvertift 7o DEBA'UCH A difpu @. a. [dé"/hzz{:ber, French debacchari, Latin. 1. To corrupt; to vitiate A man muft have got his confcience thoroughl debauched and hardened the height of fin before he can arrive t South This it is to counfel things that are unjuft firft to debauch a king to break his laws, an then to feek protection Dryden's Spanifb Friar 2. Te corrupt with lewdnefs Here do you keep a hundred knights and fquires Men fo diforder'd, fo debauch'd and bold That this our court, infected with their manners Shakefpeare's King Lear Shews like a riotous inn 3. To corrupt by intemperance No man's reafon did eyer diétate to'him, that i is reafonable for him to debauch himfelf by intem Tillotfort perance and brutifh fenfuality Desa'vcH. 7 /. [from the verb. 1. A fit of intemperance He will for fome time contain himfelf withi the bounds of fobriety; till within a little whil he recovers his former debauchy and is well again Calamy and then his appetite returns 2. Luxury ; excefs; lewdnefs The firt phyficians by debauch were made Excefs began, and floth fuftains, the trades Dryde DEEAUCHEE. n. /i [ from defbauché French. ] A lecher; a drunkard; man given to intemperance Could we but prevail with the greateft debauchee amongft us to change their lives, we fhould fin it no very hard matter to change theirjudgxflgl;'t‘iz DEEA'UCHER. 7. /. [from debauch.] On wh feduces others to inte:fifi_rame o lewdnefs ; a corrupter Th ch. deba [fro / 7 DeBa'UCHERY lewdce pera inte exce o practic g nefs e hfi s tu vi r tr co i th b e vi of Op sile crify by fober piety, and debauckery by ,tempgg-praff xm en ni fl le o te in es Thefe magiftra ties, occafion juft twice as mueh debauchery there would be withou DEeBA'UCHMENT Th them. z / at of debauchin Swift [from 'dq&fl.ucb- or vitiating corruption The)l' o maiden of chaft natii men { |