Depurate Dep"u·rate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Depurated ; present participle & verbal noun Depurating .] To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.

To depurate the mass of blood.

Boyle.

Depuration Dep`u·ra"tion noun [ Confer French dépuration .] The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

Depurative Dep"u·ra·tive adjective [ Confer French dépuratif .] (Medicine) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. -- noun A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.

Depurator Dep"u·ra`tor noun One who, or that which, cleanses.

Depuratory Dep"u·ra·to·ry adjective [ Confer French dépuratoire .] Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

Depure De·pure" transitive verb [ French dépurer . See Depurate .] To depurate; to purify. [ Obsolete]

He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God.

Sir T. More.

Depurgatory De·pur"ga·to·ry adjective Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [ Obsolete] Cotgrave.

Depurition Dep`u·ri"tion noun See Depuration .

Deputable Dep"u·ta·ble adjective Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.

Deputation Dep`u·ta"tion noun [ Confer French députation . See Depute .] 1. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.

South.

2. The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.

By deputation , or In deputation , by delegated authority; as substitute; through the medium of a deputy. [ Obsolete]

Say to great Cæsar this: In deputation
I kiss his conquering hand.

Shak.

Deputator Dep"u·ta`tor noun One who deputes, or makes a deputation. [ R.] Locke.

Depute De·pute" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Deputed ; present participle & verbal noun Deputing .] [ French députer , from Latin deputare to esteem, consider, in Late Latin , to destine, allot; de- + putare to clean, prune, clear up, set in order, reckon, think. See Pure .] 1. To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

2. Sam. xv. 3.

Some persons, deputed by a meeting.

Macaulay.

2. To appoint; to assign; to choose. [ R.]

The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.

Barrow.

Depute De·pute" noun A person deputed; a deputy. [ Scot.]

Deputize Dep"u·tize (dĕp"u*tīz) transitive verb To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

Deputy Dep"u·ty (-tȳ) noun ; plural Deputies . [ French député , from Late Latin deputatus . See Depute .] 1. One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.

There was then [ in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

1 Kings xxii. 47.

God's substitute,
His deputy anointed in His sight.

Shak.

» Deputy is used in combination with the names of various executive officers, to denote an assistant empowered to act in their name; as, deputy collector, deputy marshal, deputy sheriff.

2. A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [ France]

Chamber of Deputies , one of the two branches of the French legislative assembly; -- formerly called Corps Législatif . Its members, called deputies , are elected by the people voting in districts.

Syn. -- Substitute; representative; legate; delegate; envoy; agent; factor.

Dequantitate De·quan"ti·tate transitive verb [ Latin de- + quantitas , -atis . See Quantity .] To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Dequeen De·queen" transitive verb (Apiculture) To remove the queen from (a hive of bees).

Deracinate De·rac"i·nate (de*răs"ĭ*nāt) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Deracinated (-nā`tĕd); present participle & verbal noun Deracinating (nā`tĭng).] [ French déraciner ; prefix dé- (L. dis ) + racine root, from an assumed Late Latin radicina , from Latin radix , radicis , root.] To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [ R.]

While that the colter rusts
That should deracinate such savagery.

Shak.

Deracination De·rac`i·na"tion noun The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. [ R.]

Deraign, Derain De·raign", De·rain" transitive verb [ See Darraign .] (Old Law) To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [ Obsolete]

Deraignment, Derainment De·raign"ment, De·rain"ment noun [ See Darraign .] 1. The act of deraigning. [ Obsolete]

2. The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. [ Obsolete] Blount.

Derail De·rail" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Derailed ; present participle & verbal noun Derailing .] To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner.

Derailment De·rail"ment noun The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

Derange De·range" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Deranged ; present participle & verbal noun Deranging .] [ French déranger ; prefix dé- = dés- (L. dis ) + ranger to range. See Range , and confer Disarrange , Disrank .] 1. To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

2. To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.

A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts.

Blair.

3. To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.

Syn. -- To disorder; disarrange; displace; unsettle; disturb; confuse; discompose; ruffle; disconcert.

Deranged De·ranged" adjective Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.

The story of a poor deranged parish lad.

Lamb.

Derangement De·range"ment noun [ Confer French dérangement .] The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; lunacy; madness; delirium; mania. See Insanity .

Deranger De·ran"ger noun One who deranges.

Deray De·ray" noun [ Old French derroi , desroi , desrei ; prefix des- (L. dis- ) + roi , rei , rai , order. See Array .] Disorder; merriment. [ Obsolete]

Derbio Der"bi·o noun (Zoology) A large European food fish ( Lichia glauca ).

Derby Der"by noun 1. A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.

Derby Day , the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday of the week before Whitsuntide.

2. A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.

Derbyshire spar Der"by·shire spar" (Min.) A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.

Derdoing Der·do"ing adjective [ See Dere , transitive verb ] Doing daring or chivalrous deeds. [ Obsolete] "In derdoing arms." Spenser.

Dere Dere transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon derian to hurt.] To hurt; to harm; to injure. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Dere Dere noun Harm. [ Obsolete] Robert of Brunne.

Derecho De·re"cho noun [ Spanish derecho straight.] A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

Dereine, Dereyne De·reine, De·reyne" transitive verb Same as Darraign . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Derelict Der"e·lict adjective [ Latin derelictus , past participle of derelinquere to forsake wholly, to abandon; de- + relinquere to leave. See Relinquish .] 1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.

The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.

Jer. Taylor.

2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.

They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his [ Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.

Burke.

A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties.

J. Buchanan.

Derelict Der"e·lict noun (Law) (a) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. (b) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

Dereliction Der`e·lic"tion noun [ Latin derelictio .] 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.

Cession or dereliction , actual or tacit, of other powers.

Burke.

2. A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.

A total dereliction of military duties.

Sir W. Scott.

3. The state of being left or abandoned.

4. (Law) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained.

Dereligionize De`re·li"gion·ize transitive verb To make irreligious; to turn from religion. [ R.]

He would dereligionize men beyond all others.

De Quincey.

Dereling Dere"ling noun Darling. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Dereling Dere"ling noun Darling. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Derf Derf adjective [ Icelandic djafr .] Strong; powerful; fierce. [ Obsolete] -- Derf"ly , adverb [ Obsolete]

Deride De·ride" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Derided ; present participle & verbal noun Deriding .] [ Latin deridere , derisum ; de- + rid...re to laugh. See Ridicule .] To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him.

Luke xvi. 14.

Sport that wrinkled Care derides .
And Laughter holding both his sides.

Milton.

Syn. -- To mock; laugh at; ridicule; insult; taunt; jeer; banter; rally. -- To Deride , Ridicule , Mock , Taunt . A man may ridicule without any unkindness of feeling; his object may be to correct; as, to ridicule the follies of the age. He who derides is actuated by a severe a contemptuous spirit; as, to deride one for his religious principles. To mock is stronger, and denotes open and scornful derision; as, to mock at sin. To taunt is to reproach with the keenest insult; as, to taunt one for his misfortunes. Ridicule consists more in words than in actions; derision and mockery evince themselves in actions as well as words; taunts are always expressed in words of extreme bitterness.

Derider De·rid"er noun One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.

Deridingly De·rid"ing·ly adverb By way of derision or mockery.

Derision De·ri"sion noun [ Latin derisio : confer French dérision . See Deride .] 1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision .

Ps. ii. 4.

Satan beheld their plight,
And to his mates thus in derision called.

Milton.

2. An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.

I was a derision to all my people.

Lam. iii. 14.

Syn. -- Scorn; mockery; contempt; insult; ridicule.

Derisive De·ri"sive adjective Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. " Derisive taunts." Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly , adverb -- De*ri"sive*ness , noun

Derisory De·ri"so·ry adjective [ Latin derisorius : confer French dérisoire .] Derisive; mocking. Shaftesbury.

Derivable De·riv"a·ble adjective [ From Derive .] That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.

All honor derivable upon me.

South.

The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life.

H. G. Bell.

The argument derivable from the doxologies.

J. H. Newman.

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