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Deare (?), variant of , v. t. & n. [Obs.]
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Dearie (?), n. Same as . Dickens.
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Dearling (?), n. A darling. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Dear-loved (?), a. Greatly beloved. Shak.
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Dearly, adv. 1. In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.
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2. At a high rate or price; grievously.
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He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden.
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3. Exquisitely. [Obs.] Shak.
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Dearn (?), a. [AS. derne, dyrne, dierne, hidden, secret. Cf. .] Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. [Obs.] Shak. -- Dearnly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Dearn, v. t. Same as . [Obs.]
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Dearness (?), n. 1. The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
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The dearness of corn. Swift.
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2. Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
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The dearness of friendship. Bacon.
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Dearth (?), n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See .] Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
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There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11.
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He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak.
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Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. Dryden.
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Dearticulate (?), v. t. To disjoint.
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Dearworth (?), a. [See .] Precious. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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Deary (?), n. A dear; a darling. [Familiar]
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Deas (?), n. See . [Scot.]
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Death (dĕth), n. [OE. deth, deað, AS. deáð; akin to OS. dōð, D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dauði, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. dauþus; from a verb meaning to die. See , v. i., and cf. .] 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
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☞ Local death is going on at all times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. Huxley.
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2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
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The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile.
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3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
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A death that I abhor. Shak.
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Let me die the death of the righteous. Num. xxiii. 10.
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4. Cause of loss of life.
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Swiftly flies the feathered death. Dryden.
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He caught his death the last county sessions. Addison.
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5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
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Death! great proprietor of all. Young.
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And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8.
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6. Danger of death. “In deaths oft.” 2 Cor. xi. 23.
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7. Murder; murderous character.
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Not to suffer a man of death to live. Bacon.
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8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.
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To be carnally minded is death. Rom. viii. 6.
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9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
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It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury.
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And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16.
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☞ Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.
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Coloq. Black death . See , in the Vocabulary. -- Coloq. Civil death , the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone. -- Coloq. Death adder . (Zoöl.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. -- Coloq. Death bell , a bell that announces a death.
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The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle.
-- Coloq. Death candle , a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Coloq. Death damp , a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Coloq. Death fire , a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death.
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And round about in reel and rout,
The death fires danced at night. Coleridge.
-- Coloq. Death grapple , a grapple or struggle for life. -- Coloq. Death in life , a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] “Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.” Tennyson. -- Coloq. Death rate , the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population.
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At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin.
-- Coloq. Death rattle , a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. -- Coloq. Death's door , the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. -- Coloq. Death stroke , a stroke causing death. -- Coloq. Death throe , the spasm of death. -- Coloq. Death token , the signal of approaching death. -- Coloq. Death warrant . (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. -- Coloq. Death wound . (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. -- Coloq. Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. -- Coloq. The gates of death , the grave.
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Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17.
-- Coloq. The second death , condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. -- Coloq. To be the death of , to be the cause of death to; to make die. “It was one who should be the death of both his parents.” Milton.

Syn. -- , , , , . Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.
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Deathbed (?), n. The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
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That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
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Deathbird (?), n. (Zoöl.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
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Deathblow (?), n. A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
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The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
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Deathful (?), a. 1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
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These eyes behold
The deathful scene. Pope.
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2. Liable to undergo death; mortal.
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The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.
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Deathfulness, n. Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
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death knell, n. 1. A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{1}.
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2. Hence: (figuratively) A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything.
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Deathless, a. Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
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Deathlike (?), a. 1. Resembling death.
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A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.
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2. Deadly. [Obs.] “Deathlike dragons.” Shak.
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Deathliness (?), n. The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
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Deathly, a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
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Deathly, adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
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death-roll n. a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster.
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Death's-head (?), n. A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
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I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak.
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Coloq. Death's-head moth (Zoöl.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx.
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Death's-herb (?), n. The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.
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Deathsman (?), n. An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.
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Deathward (?), adv. Toward death.
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Deathwatch (?; 224), n. 1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. (b) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
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She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. Addison.
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I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. Tennyson.
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2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
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Deaurate (?), a. [L. deauratus, p. p. of deaurare to gild; de- + aurum gold.] Gilded. [Obs.]
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Deaurate (?), v. t. To gild. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Deauration (?), n. Act of gilding. [Obs.]
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Deave (?), v. t. [See .] To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]
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Debacchate (?), v. i. [L. debacchatus, p. p. of debacchari to rage; de- + bacchari to rage like a bacchant.] To rave as a bacchanal. [R.] Cockeram.
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Debacchation (?), n. [L. debacchatio.] Wild raving or debauchery. [R.] Prynne.
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Debacle (?), n. [F. débâcle, fr. débâcler to unbar, break loose; pref. dé- (prob. = L. dis) + bâcler to bolt, fr. L. baculum a stick.] 1. (Geol.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.
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2. A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.
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3. a complete and ludicrous failure; a rout, as of an army; a great disaster; a .
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Debar (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Debarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debarring.] [Pref. de- + bar.] To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
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Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed
Labor, as to debar us when we need
Refreshment. Milton.
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Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life. Buckle.
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Debarb (?), v. t. [Pref. de- + L. barba beard.] To deprive of the beard. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Debark (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Debarked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debarking.] [F. débarquer; pref. dé- (L. dis-) + barque. See the vessel, and cf. .] To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
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Debarkation (?), n. Disembarkation.
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The debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers. U. S. Grant.
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Debarment (?), n. Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
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Debarrass (?), v. t. [Cf. F. débarrasser. See .] To disembarrass; to relieve. [R.]
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Debase (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Debased (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debasing.] [Pref. de- + base. See , a., and cf. .] To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
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The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale.
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It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker.
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And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

Syn. -- To abase; degrade. See .
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Debased (?), a. (Her.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
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Debasement (?), n. The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.
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Debaser (?), n. One who, or that which, debases.
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Debasingly, adv. In a manner to debase.
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Debatable (?), a. [Cf. OF. debatable. See .] Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.
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Coloq. The Debatable Land or Coloq. or Ground , a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the Batable Ground.
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Debate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Debated; p. pr. & vb. n. Debating.] [OF. debatre, F. débattre; L. de + batuere to beat. See , v. t., and cf. .] 1. To engage in combat for; to strive for.
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Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott.
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2. To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
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A wise council . . . that did debate this business. Shak.
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Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself. Prov. xxv. 9.

Syn. -- To argue; discuss; dispute; controvert. See , and .
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Debate, v. i. 1. To engage in strife or combat; to fight. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Well could he tourney and in lists debate. Spenser.
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2. To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.
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He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends. Tatler.
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Debate, n. [F. débat, fr. débattre. See , v. t.] 1. A fight or fighting; contest; strife. [Archaic]
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On the day of the Trinity next ensuing was a great debate . . . and in that murder there were slain . . . fourscore. R. of Gloucester.
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But question fierce and proud reply
Gave signal soon of dire debate. Sir W. Scott.
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2. Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.
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Heard, noted, answer'd, as in full debate. Pope.
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3. Subject of discussion. [R.]
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Statutes and edicts concerning this debate. Milton.
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Debateful (?), a. Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Debatefully, adv. With contention. [Obs.]
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Debatement (?), n. [Cf. OF. debatement a beating.] Controversy; deliberation; debate. [R.]
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A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
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Debater (?), n. One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
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Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
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Debating, n. The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
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Coloq. Debating society or Coloq. Debating club , a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.
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Debatingly, adv. In the manner of a debate.
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Debauch (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Debauched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debauching.] [F. débaucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. dé- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. bālkr. See , n.] To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.
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Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
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A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South.
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Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.
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Debauch, n. [Cf. F. débauche.] 1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
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The first physicians by debauch were made. Dryden.
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2. An act or occasion of debauchery.
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Silenus, from his night's debauch,
Fatigued and sick. Cowley.
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Debauched (?), a. Dissolute; dissipated. “A coarse and debauched look.” Ld. Lytton.
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Debauchedly (?), adv. In a profligate manner.
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Debauchedness, n. The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.
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Debauchee (?), n. [F. débauché, n., properly p. p. of débaucher. See , v. t.] One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
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Debaucher (?), n. One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.
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