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Show DE( Dk DE 2. Defe& ; failing ; imperfection Scaliger, finding a defect in the reafon of Ari ftotle, introduceth one of no lefs deficiency him‘Brown's Vulgar Errours. felf Thou in thyfelf art perfeét, and in the Milton s no deficience found We find, in our own natures, too great evidence of intelle€tual deficience, and deplorable confeflion Glanwille of human ignorance What great deficience s it, if we come fhort o Sprat others The charaéters of comedy and tragedy are neve to be made perfeét, but always to be drawn wit fome fpecks of frailty and deficience, fuch as the 3. [In logick.] The explication of th effence of a thing by its kind and differ detedation Luft By unchafte looks, loofe geftures, and foul talk Lets i Th expofed withou ence defilement to the inward parts Milton unchafte are provoked to fee their vic and the chafte cannot rake into fuch filt danger of defilement Spectator Deri'LEr. 2 /. [from defile.] On defiles ; a corrupter; a violater ‘What is man ? Not a reafonable animal merely for that is not an adequate and diftinguifhing dcfinition Devt'N1TIVE tha and cal Addifon be either circular or angular; and of circular either complete, as circles, or deficient, as ovals b o uh;._; 1. To give the definition ; to explain thing by its qualities and circumftances Dericien Number are thofe numbers together mak [ in arithmetick whof parts lefs tha a contemner intege th whofe parts they are Der1'er. 2./. [from deff, Fr. lenger adde A chal that dare on and defies Is it not then high time that the laws thoul provide, by the moft prudent and effeétual means to curb thofe bold and infolent defiers of Heaven 70 DEFI'LE fu, foul. @. a. [ajlan Sax Tillotfon fro to mak 1. To make foul or impure naity or filthy; to dirty There is a thing, Harry, known to many i our land .by the name of pitch; this pitch, a ancient writers do report, doth defile Shakefpeare He is juftly reckoned among the greateft prelates of this age, however. his character may b defiled by mean and dirty hands Swift 2. To pollute; to make legally or rituall impure Fhat which dieth of itfelf he fhall not eat; t defile himfelf therewith. Lev. xxii. 8 Neither fhall he defile himfelf for his father Lews xx1e 11 3. To corrupt chaftity ; to violate Ev'ry objeét his offence revil'd The hufb?.nd murder'd, and the wife defi'd. Prior 4. T taint make guilty to corrupt to vitiate Forgetfulne(s of good turns, defilin % ultery, and fhamelefs uncleannefs ; God requires rather that w t of fouls Wifd. xiv, 26 fhoul die, tha defile ourfelves with impieties Stilling fleet Let not any inftances of fin defile your requefts Wake Pofitively; decifively; exprefsly Definitively thus I anfwer you Your love deferves my thanks ; but my defert Unmeritable, fhuns your high requeft. Shakefpeare Bellarmin definer Fr. Dert'LemMENT 5. /0 [from defile. Addifon Th Rate of being defiled 5 the ad of defil becauf w thin tha th is it definitively fet down by Mofes Brown's Vulgar Errours Whofe lofs can'ft thou mean DerFi'NITIVENESS. 2. /. [from definitive. Decifivenefs Dig Derracrasi'vity. #n /. [from deflagro Lat.] Combuftibility ; the quality o 2. To circumfcribe; to mark the limit taking fire, and burning totally away to bound That doft fo well their miferies define Sidney Though defining be thought the proper way t malke known'the proper fignification yet there ar fome words that will not be defined Locke We have fpent more time thau the opinion o the ready deflagrability, if I may fo fpeak, of falt When the rings appeared only black and white they were very diftinét and well defined, and th petre did permit us to imagine blacknefs feemed as intenfe as that of the centra {pot Newion. 70 DEr1'NE. @. 2. To determine cide; to decree The unjuf landmarks judg whe properties is th capita to de semove he defineth amifs of land o Our chymical oils, fuppofing that they wer exaltly pure, yet they would be, as the beft fpiri of wine is, but the more inflammable and de agrable Boyle an Bacon Deri'NER. 7./. [from defire.] One tha explains ; one that defcribes a thing b its qualities Derracra'rion. ». /. [deflagratio, Lat. term frequently made ufe of in chymiftry for fetting fire to feveral things in their preparation; as in making Afthiops with fire, with fa Your God, forfooth, is foun Incomprehenfible and infinite But is he therefore found ? Vain fearcher! no Let your imperfect definition fhow That nothing you,-the weak definer, know. Prior prunellee, and many others by the paper, keeps it fo moift, that the flame o Hither to your arbour divers times he repaired and here, by your means, had the fight of th goddefs, who in a definite compafs can fet fort infinite beauty Sidney the fulphureous parts of th 2. Exaét; precife fame fpirit canno faften on it an therefore, when the deflagratio is over, yo fhall always find the paper moift Boyle 70 DEFLE'CT. @. n. [defleito, Lat.] T turn afide ; to deviate from a true courfe or right line Idiots, in this cafe of favour, woul Be wifely definite Shakefpeare In a charge of adultery, the accufer ought t fet forth, in the accufatory libel, or inquifition which fucceeds in the place of accufation, fom certain and defizite time Ayliffe's Parergon At fome parts of the Azores the needle defleet not, but lieth in the true meridian: on the othe fide of the Azores, and this fide of the equator the north point of the needle wheeleth to the weft DeFinNITE. 2./. [from the adjeive. Thing explained or defined Brown's Vulgar Errours For, did not fome from a ftraight courfe deflef? They could not meet, they could no world erect Blackmore Special baftardy is nothing elfe but the definition of the general; and the general, again, is nothing elfe but a definite of the fpecial Ayliffe Derre‘crTioN. #. [ [from deflefto, Lat. 1. Deviation ; the at of turning afide Needle inciin of the equator to the fout on the other fid and at the very line, or middl circle, ftand without defleZion Brown's Pulg. Er 2. A turning afide, or out of the way 3. [In navigation.] The departure of thip from its true courfe DEFLE'XURE. 7. /i [from Zefedto, Lat. A bending down; a turning afide; o I drew my definition of poetical wit from m for propriety o thowghts and werds is only to be found in him Dryden Luincy The true reafon why paper is not burned by th flame that plays about it, feems to be, that th aqueous part of the fpirit of wine, being imbibe DE'FINITE. adj. [from definitus, Lat. 1. Certain; limited; bounded particular confideration of him Boyle DerrLaA'GRABLE adj. [from deflagre Lat.] Having the quality of waftin away wholly in fire, without any zemains 90 Dert'LE. @. n. [deffler, French.] T march; to go off file by file IDE‘FINITENESS. #. /. [from definite. Dert'LE. #. /. [defile, Fr. from fle, a lin Certainty ; limitednefs Di4 of foldiers, which is derived from flum Derin 'rioN f [definiti Lat defia thread.] A narrow paflage; a lon nition, Fr. narrow pafs; a lane 1. A fhort defcription of a thing by it There is in Oxford a narrow defile, to ufe th properties military term, where the partifans ufed to encounter faith body of Chrift may be in many places at once locally and vifibly 5 therefore we fay and hold, tha the fame body may be circumfcriptively and defiaitiwely in more places at once Hull That Metheufelah was the longeft lived of al the children of Adam, we need not grant; no Burnet's Theory Several thoughts of the mind, for which w have either none, or very deficient names, are diligently to be ftudied Locke o adv. [from definitive. DerFiU'NITIVELY the queftion is, whether that time be definable o . a. [definio, Lat Brown's Vulgar Errours fum of this art, to diftribute ufefully and gracefull a well chofen plot Wotton Concerning the time of the end of the world 7o DEFI'NE exprefs the whole work, it being indeed the very definitiv 2. That which may be alcertained no Lat. I make hafte to the cafting and compartin were definable, or infinity a fubjeét for our narro underftanding Dryden Wotton Neither Virgil nor Homer were deficient in an of the former beauties Dryden truth Dert'NABLE. adj. [from define. Der1'CIENT. adj. [deficiens, from deficio, 1. That which may be defined; capabl of definition Failing ; wanting ; defeétive Lat. The Supreme Nature we cannot otherwife deimperfe& fine, than by faying it is infinite ; as if infinit O woman! beft of all things, as the wil Of God ordain'd them: his creating han Nothing imperfect or deficient left Milton Figures are either fimple or'mixed : the fimpl [ definitiouns Bentley Other authors write often dubioufly, even i matters wherein is expeéted a firi€t and definitiv Deryden have been defcribed to us in hiftory adj Determinate; pofitive At the laft tremendous day, I fhall hold fort in my arms my much wronged child aloud for vengeance on her defiler determination 2. Decifion ing 3 naftinefs; pollution ; corruption out ‘of the way Dig Drrrora'riox |