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Show DE' D E _Had thy great deffiny but given thee (kii To know, as well as pow'r te aét, her wille Denb Chance, or forceful de iny Which forms in caafes firft whate'er fhall be 3. Doom ; condition in future time Dryden At the pit of Achero Meet me th' morning: thither h I\Yill come to know his deffiny DE bTJTUTE adj Shake[peare [deffitutus, Lat. . Forfaken ; abandoned To forfake the true Go with of of heaven, is to fal into all fuch evils upon the face of the earth, a men, either deffitute of grace divine, may commit or unprote€ted from above, may endure Hooker 2. Abje& friendlefs He will regard the prayer of the deflitute, an not defpife their prayer Pfalm ciie 17 3. In want of Take the deftin'd wa To find the regions deffitute of day Dryden Nothing can be a greater inftance of the lov that mankind has for liberty, than fuch a favag mountain covered with people, and the Campani of Rome which lies in the fame country, deffitut Addifon of inhabitants Destitv'rion. 2 [ [from deffitute. Want ; the ftate in which fomething i wanted : applied to perfons That deffitution in food and cloathing is fuch a impediment, as, till it be removed, fuffereth no the mind of man to admit any other care. Hooker They which want furtherance unto knowledge are not left in fo great deffitution, that juftly an man fhould think the ordinary means of eterna life taken from them Hooker The order of paying the debts of contraé or reftitution is fet down by the civil laws of a kingdom : in deflitution or want of fuch rules, we are t Yet, guiltlefs too, this bright deftreyer lives At random wounds, nor knows the wound fhe gives Pope [from deffruo adj DESTRU'CTIBLE Lat.] Liable to deftru&ion DestrucTiBi'LiTY, 2./ [from deftructible.] Liablenefs to deftruétion Destrvu'crion. . [ [deffrudtio, Lat. 1. The a& of deftroying; fubverfion demolition Shak If that your moody difcontented foul Do through the clouds behold this prefent hour Shakefp Even for revenge mock my deftruétion When that which we immortal though We faw fo near defiruétion brought We felt what you did then endure Waller And tremble yet, as not fecure 4. The caufe of deftrution; a deftroyer a depopulator: as a confuming plague The deflruction that wafteth at noon-day Pfalm xci. 6 Eternal death Broad is the way that leadeth to deffruétion Matthew [deffruitivus lo Latin. 1. That which deftroys ; wafteful ; caufin ruin and devaftation; that which bring to deftruction In ports and roads remote Dryden One may think that the continuation of exift Taylor ence, with a kind of refiftance to any deffructiv force, is the continuation of folidity Locke @. a. [deffruo Latin deftruire, Fr. 1. To overturn a city ; to raze a building to ruin Gene Xix. 14 The Lord will deflroy this city 2. To lay wafte ; to make defolate Solyman fent his army, whic [froyed the country villages 5. To kill burn and deKnolles A people, great and many, and tall as the Ana kims; but the Lord deffroyed them before them and they fucceede them, and dwelt in their ftead Dent. 11, 23 >T'is fafer £8 be that which we deftroy Than by deftruétion dwell in doubtful joy. Shak The wife Providence hath placed a certain anti pathy between fome animals and many infes whereby they delight in their deftruétion, thoug they ufe them not as food ; as the peacock defiray {nakes and adders; the weafel, mice and -rats {piders, flies ; and fome forts of flies defiray fpi]d{er/s ale 4. To put an end to ; to bring to neught Do we not fee that flothful intemperate an incontinent perfons deffroy their bodies with difeafes, their reputations with difgrace, and their faBentley culties with want There will be as many fovereigns as fathers the mother too hath her title, which deffrops th Liocke fovereignty of one fupreme monarch DesTrO'YER. #. /. [from deffroy.] 'Th perfon that deftroys or lays wafte ; murdeser Tt is faid, that Affur both founded it and ruine it: it may be underftood, that Affur the founde was the fon of Shem, and Aflur the deffroyer was a Aflyrian Raleigh Triumph, to be fiyl'd great conquerors Patrons of mankind, gods, and fons of gods Defiroyers rightlier call'd, and flayers of men Milton 2. With of H will put an end to fo abfurd a practice which makes our moft refined diverfions deffructiv Addifon of all politenefs Both are defe@ts equally defirucZive of true reli glon Rogers 3. With zo In a firm building, even the cavities ought no to, be filled with rubbifh, which is of a perithabl Dryden kind, deftruétive to the ftrength Excefs of cold, as well as heat, pains us; becaufe it is equally deffruétive to that temper whic Locke is neceflary to the prefervation of life DesTrU cTIVELY. adv. [from deffructive.] Ruinoufly ; mifchievoully ; wit power to deftroy What remains but to breathe out Mofes's wifh O that men were not fo deftrucfively foolifh Decay of Piety DesTRU'CTIVENESS 7. /. [from deffruc tive.} The quality of deftroying or ruining The vice of profeffors exceeds the deffructiuenef of the moft hoftile affaults, as inteftine treacher is more ruinous than foreign violence Decay of Picty Destru'ctor 2 /. [from deffroy.] De ftroyer ; confumer Helmont wittily calls the fire the deffruffor an Boyle the artificial death of things Desupa'rion n. f of th Ty Tongu he o £7 }m DE'SULTORY [d‘f"l'"ifl!,ht‘. DesurTo'rR10Us. § ‘Rovi - 3 Roving from thi thing ; unfettled; immethodical; %; conftant Defultorious is not in ufe [defudatio, Lat. to qualify an effeGual converfion vzflq?;'ffm ' Let but the leaft trifle crofs his way, andnfi- defultorious fancy prefently takes the feen leave[: the unfinithed and half-mangled notion, and k away in purfuit of the new game ng Take my defultory thoughts in their nativeorder as they rife in my mind, without being xedueedt rules, and marfhalled according to art Felton on the Clafficks 7o DESu'ME. . a. [defumo, Latin.] T take from any thing ; to borrow This pebble doth fuppofe, as pre-exiftent o i the more fimple matter out of which it is deamzd the heat and influence of the fun, and the due pre- paration of the matter Halz They have left us relations fuitable to thofe o /Elian and Pliny, whence they defumed their nar rations Laws Brow if convenient and ufeful, are never th worfe though they be defumed and taken from th laws of other countries Hal Te DETA'CH. @.a [detacher, Fr. 1. To feparate; to difengage from fomething to par The heat takes along with it a fort of vegetativ Deftructive fires among whole fleets we fend obferve the necefiity of the creditor, the time of th delay, and the fpecial obligations of friendthip 7o DESTRO'Y Governien rinducing of avirtuous habit upon 2 vic 3. The ftate of being deftroyed; ruin murder {uffered adj i lewd courfe of life; nor for anf thi:g 1?::11?;": p *Tis fafer to be that which we deftroy Than by deffructien dwell in doubtful joy Destru'crivE civility and knowledge :Ve fee in all things how d uetude dogg Nifag and narrow our faculties, fo that we gan sn only thofe things wherein we are w;a:g;e "Tis not for a defultory thought 2. Murder ; maflacre 5. [In theology. with barbarifin and difuetu profufe and inordinate {weating, fro what caufe {oever De'sueTUDE. . [. [defuctudo, Lat.] Ceffation to be accuftomed; difcontinuanc of practice or habit By the irruption of numerous armies of barba rous people; thofe countries were quickly fallen off and terreftrial matter, which it detaches from th uppermoft ftratum Woodward The feveral parts of it are detached one from th other, and yet join again one cannot tell how. Pop 2. To fend out part of a greater body o men on an expedition If ten men are in war with forty, and the latterdetach only an equal number to the engagement what benefit do they receive from their fuperio Addifon rity DeTa'cHMENT. 7. /. [from detach.] body of troops fent out from the mai army The czar difpatched inftruétions to fend out detachments of his cavalry, to prevent the klr;g o Tatler N° 55 Sweden's joining his army Befides materials, which are brute and blind Did not this work require a knowing mind Who for the tafk fhould fit detachments chuf Blackmare From all the atoms 70 DETA'IL w. a T [defaille-r, Fr.' relate particularly ; to particularife ; t difplay minutely and diftin@tly They will perceive the miftakes of thefe philo argu ents thei anfw t abl b an fophers Cheyne without my being obliged to detail them A mnu DeTa'tL. n. /o [detail, Fr and particular account t w e a r t b o t a t I ] chufe, rathe i proper place detail here, to defer them to theirprop Wl;adward if )_ f: m o r p i t e t I was unable t 1" t a d n m c b o t w more in detail 7, DETA'IN @.a [detines, Lat. C o a t 1. To keep tha ling5 10 ic:inDetain not the wages of the hir i m t t n y b i o i n degree of det iuftice and uncharitablenefs 2. To withhold to k.eeph'bac& Thefe doings ftin hi hi detain {ham burnin So venomoufly, tha kelpeare P He From his Cordelia |