Deodar De`o·dar" noun [ Native name, from Sanskrit dēvadāru , prop., timber of the gods.] (Botany) A kind of cedar ( Cedrus Deodara ), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

Deodate De"o·date` noun [ Latin Deo to God ( Deus God) + datum thing given.] A gift or offering to God. [ Obsolete]

Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up.

Hooker.

Deodorant De·o"dor·ant noun A deodorizer.

Deodorization De·o`dor·i·za"tion noun The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.

Deodorize De·o"dor·ize transitive verb To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

Deodorizer De·o"dor·i`zer noun He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.

Deonerate De·on"er·ate transitive verb [ Latin deoneratus , past participle of deonerare . See Onerate .] To unload; to disburden. [ Obsolete] Cockeram.

Deontological De·on`to·log"ic·al adjective Pertaining to deontology.

Deontologist De`on·tol"o·gist noun One versed in deontology.

Deontology De`on·tol"o·gy noun [ Greek ... gen. ..., necessity, obligation (p. neut. of ... it is necessary) + - logy .] The science which relates to duty or moral obligation. J. Bentham.

Deoperculate De`o·per"cu·late adjective (Botany) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

Deoppilate De·op"pi·late transitive verb To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [ Obsolete] Boyle.

Deoppilation De·op`pi·la"tion noun Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Deoppilative De·op"pi·la·tive adjective & noun (Medicine) Deobstruent; aperient. [ Obsolete] Harvey.

Deordination De·or`di·na"tion noun [ Late Latin deordinatio depraved morality.] Disorder; dissoluteness. [ Obsolete]

Excess of riot and deordination .

Jer. Taylor.

Deosculate De·os"cu·late transitive verb [ Latin deosculatus , past participle of deosculari . See Osculate .] To kiss warmly. [ Obsolete] -- De*os`cu*la"tion noun [ Obsolete]

Deoxidate De·ox"i·date transitive verb (Chemistry) To deoxidize.

Deoxidation De·ox`i·da"tion noun (Chemistry) The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidization De·ox`i·di·za"tion noun (Chemistry) Deoxidation.

Deoxidize De·ox"i·dize transitive verb (Chemistry) To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidizer De·ox"i·di`zer noun (Chemistry) That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer .

Deoxygenate De·ox"y·gen·ate transitive verb (Chemistry) To deoxidize. [ Obsolete]

Deoxygenation De·ox`y·gen·a"tion noun (Chemistry) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

Deoxygenize De·ox"y·gen·ize transitive verb (Chemistry) To deoxidize.

Depaint De·paint" past participle [ French dépeint , past participle of dépeindre to paint, from Latin depingere . See Depict , past participle ] Painted. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Depaint De·paint" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Depainted ; present participle & verbal noun Depainting .] 1. To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [ Obsolete]

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.

2. To mark with, or as with, color; to color.

Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint .

Fairfax.

Depainter De·paint"er noun One who depaints. [ Obsolete]

Depardieux De·par"dieux` interj. [ Old French , a corruption of de part Dieu , lit., on the part of God.] In God's name; certainly. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Depart De·part" intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Departed ; present participle & verbal noun Departing .] [ Middle English departen to divide, part, depart, French départir to divide, distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; prefix dé- (L. de ) + partir to part, depart, from Latin partire , partiri , to divide, from pars part. See Part .] 1. To part; to divide; to separate. [ Obsolete] Shak.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To pass away; to perish.

The glory is departed from Israel.

1 Sam. iv. 21.

5. 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. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Depart De·part" transitive verb 1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [ Obsolete]

Till death departed them, this life they lead.

Chaucer.

2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [ Obsolete]

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

Chaucer.

3. To leave; to depart from. "He departed this life." Addison. "Ere I depart his house." Shak.

Depart De·part" noun [ Confer French départ , from départir .] 1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [ Obsolete]

The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .

Bacon.

2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [ Obsolete]

At my depart for France.

Shak.

Your loss and his depart .

Shak.

Departable De·part"a·ble adjective Divisible. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Departer De·part"er noun 1. One who refines metals by separation. [ Obsolete]

2. One who departs.

Department De·part"ment noun [ French département , from départir . See Depart , intransitive verb ] 1. Act of departing; departure. [ Obsolete]

Sudden departments from one extreme to another.

Wotton.

2. A part, portion, or subdivision.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

Department store De·part"ment store A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

Departmental De`part·men"tal adjective Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.

Departure De·par"ture noun [ From Depart .] 1. Division; separation; putting away. [ Obsolete]

No other remedy . . . but absolute departure .

Milton.

2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

Departure from this happy place.

Milton.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. (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.

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

» 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 .

Depascent De·pas"cent adjective [ Latin depascens , present participle of depascere ; de- + pascere to feed.] Feeding. [ R.]

Depasture De·pas"ture transitive verb & 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 De·pa"tri·ate transitive verb & i. [ Latin de- + patria one's country.] To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [ Obsolete]

A subject born in any state
May, if he please, depatriate .

Mason.

Depauperate De·pau"per·ate transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Depauperated ; present participle & verbal noun Depauperating .] [ Late Latin depauperatus , past participle depauperare to impoverish; Latin de- + pauperare to make poor, pauper poor.] To make poor; to impoverish.

Liming does not depauperate ; the ground will last long, and bear large grain.

Mortimer.

Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit.

Jer. Taylor.

Depauperate De·pau"per·ate adjective [ Latin depauperatus , past participle ] (Botany) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Gray.

Depauperize De·pau"per·ize transitive verb To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [ R.]

Depeach De·peach" transitive verb [ Latin dépêcher . See Dispatch .] To discharge. [ Obsolete]

As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached .

Hakluyt.

Depectible De·pec"ti·ble adjective [ Latin depectere to comb off; de- + pectere to comb.] Tough; thick; capable of extension. [ Obsolete]

Some bodies are of a more depectible nature than oil.

Bacon.

Depeculation De·pec`u·la"tion noun [ Latin depeculari , past participle depeculatus , to rob. See Peculate .] A robbing or embezzlement. [ Obsolete]

Depeculation of the public treasure.

Hobbes.

Depeinct De·peinct" transitive verb [ See Depaint .] To paint. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Depend De·pend" intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Depended ; present participle & verbal noun Depending .] [ French dépendre , from Latin depend...re ; de- + pend...re to hang. See Pendant .] 1. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

And ever-living lamps depend in rows.

Pope.

2. To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition.

Burke.

3. 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 .

The truth of God's word dependeth not of the truth of the congregation.

Tyndale.

The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds.

Macaulay.

Heaven forming each on other to depend .

Pope.

4. 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.

But if you 're rough, and use him like a dog,
Depend upon it -- he 'll remain incog.

Addison.

5. To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer. [ Obsolete] Shak.

6. To impend. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Dependable De·pend"a·ble adjective Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. " Dependable friendships." Pope.

Dependant, Dependance De·pend"ant, De·pend"ance noun , De*pend"an*cy noun See Dependent , Dependence , Dependency .

» 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 .

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