Despiteful adjective [ See Despite , and confer Spiteful .] Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious. -- De*spite"ful*ly , adverb -- De*spite"ful*ness , noun

Haters of God, despiteful , proud, boasters.

Rom. i. 30.

Pray for them which despitefully use you.

Matt. v. 44.

Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune.

Book of Wisdom ii. 19.

Despiteous adjective [ Middle English despitous , Old French despiteus , from despit ; affected in form by English piteous . See Despite .] Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. [ Obsolete] " Despiteous reproaches." Holland.

Despiteously adverb Despitefully. [ Obsolete]

Despitous adjective Despiteous; very angry; cruel. [ Obsolete]

He was to sinful man not despitous .

Chaucer.

Despoil transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Despoiled ; present participle & verbal noun Despoiling .] [ Old French despoiller , French dépouiller , Latin despoliare , despoliatum ; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Confer Spoil , Despoliation .]
1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of .

The clothed earth is then bare,
Despoiled is the summer fair.

Gower.

A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled .

Macaulay.

Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.

Milton.

Syn. -- To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle.

Despoil noun Spoil. [ Obsolete] Wolsey.

Despoiler noun One who despoils.

Despoilment noun Despoliation. [ R.]

Despoliation noun [ Latin despoliatio . See Despoil .] A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.

Despond intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Desponded ; present participle & verbal noun Desponding .] [ Latin despondēre , desponsum , to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de- + spondēre to promise solemnly. See Sponsor .] To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.

I should despair, or at least despond .

Scott's Letters.

Others depress their own minds, [ and] despond at the first difficulty.

Locke.

We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong.

D. Webster.

Syn. -- Despond , Dispair . Despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case; yet despondency is often more lasting than despair , or than desperation , which impels to violent action.

Despond noun Despondency. [ Obsolete]

The slough of despond .

Bunyan.

Despondence noun Despondency.

The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [ and] saunter about with looks of despondence .

Goldsmith.

Despondency noun The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency .

Macaulay.

Despondent adjective [ Latin despondens , -entis , present participle of despond...re .] Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly , adverb

Desponder noun One who desponds.

Despondingly adverb In a desponding manner.

Desponsage noun [ From Latin desponsus , past participle See Despond .] Betrothal. [ Obsolete]

Ethelbert . . . went peaceably to King Offa for desponsage of Athilrid, his daughter.

Foxe.

Desponsate transitive verb [ Latin desponsatus , past participle of desponsare , intens. of despondere to betroth. See Despond .] To betroth. [ Obsolete] Johnson.

Desponsation noun [ Latin desponsatio : confer Old French desponsation .] A betrothing; betrothal. [ Obsolete]

For all this desponsation of her . . . she had not set one step toward the consummation of her marriage.

Jer. Taylor.

Desponsory noun ; plural Desponsories A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.

Desport transitive verb & i. See Disport .

Despot noun [ French despote , Late Latin despotus , from Greek despo`ths master, lord, the second part of which is akin to po`sis husband, and Latin potens . See Potent .]
1. A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.

Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant.

C. J. Smith.

2. One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.

Despotat noun [ Confer French despotat .] The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot. Freeman.

Despotic, Despotical adjective [ Greek ...: confer French despotique .] Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly , adverb -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness , noun

Despotism noun [ Confer French despotisme .]
1. The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny. "The despotism of vice." Byron.

2. A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.

Despotism . . . is the only form of government which may with safety to itself neglect the education of its infant poor.

Bp. Horsley.

Despotist noun A supporter of despotism. [ R.]

Despotize transitive verb To act the despot.

Despread transitive verb & i. See Dispread .

Despumate transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Despumated ; present participle & verbal noun Despumating .] [ Latin despumatus , past participle of despumare to despume; de- + spumare to foam, froth, spuma froth, scum.] To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

Despumation noun [ Latin despumatio : confer French despumation .] The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

Despume transitive verb [ Confer French despumer . See Despumate .] To free from spume or scum. [ Obsolete]

If honey be despumed .

Holland.

Desquamate intransitive verb [ Latin desquamatus , past participle of desquamare to scale off; de- + squama scale.] (Medicine) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

Desquamation noun [ Confer French desquamation .] (Medicine) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

Desquamative, Desquamatory adjective Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.

Desquamatory noun (Surg.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.

Dess noun Dais. [ Obsolete]

Dessert noun [ French, from desservir to remove from table, to clear the table; prefix des- (L. dis- ) + servir to serve, to serve at table. See Serve .] A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

"An 't please your honor," quoth the peasant,
"This same dessert is not so pleasant."

Pope.

Dessert spoon , a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. -- Dessert-spoonful , noun , plural Dessert- spoonfuls , as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams.

Destemper noun [ Confer French détrempe , from détremper .] A kind of painting. See Distemper .

Destin noun [ Confer French destin .] Destiny. [ Obsolete] Marston.

Destinable adjective [ Confer Old French destinable .] Determined by destiny; fated. Chaucer.

Destinably adverb In a destinable manner.

Destinal adjective Determined by destiny; fated. [ Obsolete] "The order destinal ." Chaucer.

Destinate adjective [ Latin destinatus , past participle of destinare . See Destine .] Destined. [ Obsolete] " Destinate to hell." Foxe.

Destinate transitive verb To destine, design, or choose. [ Obsolete] "That name that God . . . did destinate ." Udall.

Destination noun [ Latin destinatio determination: confer French destination destination.]
1. The act of destining or appointing.

2. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.

3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

Syn. -- Appointment; design; purpose; intention; destiny; lot; fate; end.

Destine transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Destined ; present participle & verbal noun Destining .] [ French destiner , Latin destinare ; de + the root of stare to stand. See Stand , and confer Obstinate .] To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for .

We are decreed,
Reserved, and destined to eternal woe.

Milton.

Till the loathsome opposite
Of all my heart had destined , did obtain.

Tennyson.

Not enjoyment and not sorrow
Is our destined end or way.

Longfellow.

Syn. -- To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend; devote; consecrate; doom.

Destinist noun A believer in destiny; a fatalist. [ R.]

Destiny noun ; plural Destinies . [ Middle English destinee , destene , French destinée , from destiner . See Destine .]
1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

Thither he
Will come to know his destiny .

Shak.

No man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny .

Bryant.

2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

But who can turn the stream of destiny ?

Spenser.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny , for it is destiny .

Longfellow.

The Destinies (Anc. Myth.) , the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration.

Marked by the Destinies to be avoided.

Shak.

Destituent adjective [ Latin destituens , present participle of destituere .] Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition. [ Obsolete] Jer. Taylor.