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Deliveress (?), n. A female deliverer. [R.] Evelyn.
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Deliverly, adv. Actively; quickly; nimbly. [Obs.]
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Swim with your bodies,
And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.
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Deliverness, n. Nimbleness; agility. [Obs.]
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Delivery, n.; pl. Deliveries (�). 1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
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2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
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3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
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4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
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5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
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Neater limbs and freer delivery. Sir H. Wotton.
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6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
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Dell (?), n. [AS. del, akin to E. dale; cf. D. delle, del, low ground. See .] 1. A small, retired valley; a ravine.
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In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.
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2. A young woman; a wench. [Obs.]
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Sweet doxies and dells. B. Jonson.
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Della Crusca (?). A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language.
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☞ The Accademia della Crusca (literally, academy of the bran or chaff) was so called in allusion to its chief object of bolting or purifying the national language.
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Dellacruscan (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.
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Coloq. The Dellacruscan School , a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.
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Deloo (d�lō), n. (Zoöl.) The duykerbok.
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Deloul (d�l�l), n. [Prob. of Arabic or Bedouin origin.] (Zoöl.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.
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Delph (?), n. Delftware.
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Five nothings in five plates of delph. Swift.
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Delph, n. (Hydraul. Engin.) The drain on the land side of a sea embankment. Knight.
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Delphian (?), a. Delphic.
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Delphic (?), a. [L. Delphicus, fr. Gr. Delfikos, fr. Delfoi, L. Delphi, a town of Phocis, in Greece, now Kastri.] (Gr. Antiq.) 1. Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.
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2. Ambiguous; mysterious. “If he is silent or delphic.” New York Times.

{ Delphin, Delphine } (?), a. [See .] Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).
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Delphin, n. [L. delphinus a dolphin.] (Chem.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.
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Delphine (?), a. [L. delphinus a dolphin, Gr. delfis, delfin.] Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.
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Delphinic (?), a. [See , n.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.
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Coloq. Delphinic acid . (Chem.) See Valeric acid, under . [Obs.]
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Delphinic, a. [From NL. Delphinium, the name of the genus.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).
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Delphinine (?; 104), n. [Cf. F. delphinine.] (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.
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Delphinoid (?), a. [L. delphinus a dolphin + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
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Delphinoidea (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.
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Delphinus (?), n. [L., a dolphin, fr. Gr. delfis, delfin.] 1. (Zoöl.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See , 1.
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2. (Astron.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila.
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Delsarte (?), n., or Delsarte system. A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of François Delsarte (1811 -- 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.
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Delta (?), n.; pl. Deltas (#). [Gr. delta, the name of the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (the capital form of which is Δ, Eng. D), from the Phœnician name of the corresponding letter. The Greeks called the alluvial deposit at the mouth of the Nile, from its shape, the Delta of the Nile.] 1. The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ δ), corresponding to . Hence, an object having the shape of the capital Δ.
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2. A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (Δ), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.
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3. (Elec.) The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, esp. in a three-phase system; -- often used attributively, as delta winding, delta connection (which see), etc.
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Delta connection. (Elec.) One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
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Delta current. (Elec.) The current flowing through a delta connection.
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Deltafication (?), n. [Delta + L. facere to make.] The formation of a delta or of deltas. [R.]
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Deltaic (?), a. Relating to, or like, a delta.
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Delthyris (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. delta the name of the letter Δ + thyra door.] (Zoöl.) A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus .
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Coloq. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.
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Deltic (?), a. Deltaic.
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Deltidium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. delta, the letter Δ.] (Zoöl.) The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.
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Deltohedron (?), n. [Gr. delta, the letter Δ + 'edra seat, base.] (Crystallog.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.
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Deltoid (?), a. [Gr. deltoeidhs delta- shaped; delta the name of the letter Δ + e'i^dos form: cf. F. deltoïde. See .] 1. Shaped like the Greek Δ (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
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Coloq. Deltoid leaf (Bot.), a leaf in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base. -- Coloq. Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint, which serves to raise the arm directly upward.
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2. of or pertaining to the deltoid muscle.
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Deltoid (?), n. [see , a.] the deltoid muscle.
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delts (dĕlts), n. pl. (Anat.) The deltoid muscles; -- a contraction used by body-building and health enthusiasts. Used similarly to and . See deltoid muscle. [abbrev.]
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Deludable (?), a. Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible. Sir T. Browne.
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Delude (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Deluding.] [L. deludere, delusum; de- + ludere to play, make sport of, mock. See .] 1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
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To delude the nation by an airy phantom. Burke.
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2. To frustrate or disappoint.
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It deludes thy search. Dryden.

Syn. -- To mislead; deceive; beguile; cajole; cheat; dupe. See .
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Deluder (?), n. One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
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Deluge (dĕl�j), n. [F. déluge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See , and cf. .] 1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
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2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. “The deluge of summer.” Lowell.
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A fiery deluge fed
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton.
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As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison.
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After me the deluge.
(Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.
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Deluge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deluged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deluging.] 1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore.
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2. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.
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At length corruption, like a general flood . . .
Shall deluge all. Pope.
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Delundung (?), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.
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Delusion (?) n. [L. delusio, fr. deludere. See .] 1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope.
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2. The state of being deluded or misled.
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3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
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And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. Prior.

Syn. -- , . These words both imply some deception practiced upon the mind. Delusion is deception from want of knowledge; illusion is deception from morbid imagination. An illusion is a false show, a mere cheat on the fancy or senses. It is, in other words, some idea or image presented to the bodily or mental vision which does not exist in reality. A delusion is a false judgment, usually affecting the real concerns of life. Or, in other words, it is an erroneous view of something which exists indeed, but has by no means the qualities or attributes ascribed to it. Thus we speak of the illusions of fancy, the illusions of hope, illusive prospects, illusive appearances, etc. In like manner, we speak of the delusions of stockjobbing, the delusions of honorable men, delusive appearances in trade, of being deluded by a seeming excellence.
“A fanatic, either religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions; while the term illusion is applied solely to the visions of an uncontrolled imagination, the chimerical ideas of one blinded by hope, passion, or credulity, or lastly, to spectral and other ocular deceptions, to which the word delusion is never applied.” Whately.
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Delusional (?), a. Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
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Delusive (?), a. [See .] Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.
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Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell.

-- Delusively, adv. -- Delusiveness, n.
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Delusory (?) a. Delusive; fallacious. Glanvill.
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deluxe adj. 1. impressively expensive; notably exceeding typical price or quality.
Syn. -- gilded, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous.
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2. especially elegant and sumptuous; of the highest quality; as, a deluxe car; deluxe accommodations.
Syn. -- gilded, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous, de luxe, luxe, luxury(prenominal).
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Delve (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Delving.] [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury, D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf. a mine.] 1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
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Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor. Dryden.
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2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
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I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
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Delve, v. i. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
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Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
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Delve, n. [See , v. t., and cf. a mine.] A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
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Which to that shady delve him brought at last. Spenser.
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The very tigers from their delves
Look out. Moore.
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Delver (?), n. One who digs, as with a spade.
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demagnetization n. the act or process of removing magnetization.
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Demagnetize (?), v. t. 1. To deprive of magnetic properties; to render nonmagnetic. See .
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If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. Am. Cyc.
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2. To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. [archaic]
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-- Demagnetization, n. -- Demagnetizer (#), n.
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Demagog (?; 115), n. Demagogue.

{ Demagogic (?), Demagogical (?), } a. [Gr. dhmagwkikos: cf. F. démagogique.] Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.
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Demagogism (?; 115), n. The practices of a demagogue.
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Demagogue (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgos a popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos the people + 'agwgos leading, fr. 'agein to lead; akin to E. act: cf. F. démagogue.] A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
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demagoguery n. 1. impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace.
Syn. -- demagogy, demagogism.
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Demagogy (?), n. [Cf. F. démagogie, Gr. dhmagwgia leadership of the people.] Demagogism.
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Demain (?), n. [See .] 1. Rule; management. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. (Law) See .
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Demand (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Demanding.] [F. demander, LL. demandare to demand, summon, send word, fr. L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to one's charge, commission, order, command. Cf. , .] 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
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This, in our foresaid holy father's name,
Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak.
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2. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.
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I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. Shak.
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3. To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
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4. (Law) To call into court; to summon. Burrill.
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Demand, v. i. To make a demand; to inquire.
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The soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? Luke iii. 14.
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Demand, n. [F. demande, fr. demander. See , v. t.] 1. The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.
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The demand [is] by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17.
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He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke.
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2. Earnest inquiry; question; query. Shak.
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3. A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.
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In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and then the demand became immense. Macaulay.
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4. That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
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5. (Law) (a) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due. (b) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person. (c) A thing or amount claimed to be due.
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Coloq. In demand , in request; being much sought after. -- Coloq. On demand , upon presentation and request of payment.
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Demandable (?), a. That may be demanded or claimed. “All sums demandable.” Bacon.
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Demandant (?) n. [F. demandant, p. pr. of demander.] One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
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Demander (?), n. One who demands.
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Demandress (?), n. A woman who demands.
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Demantoid (?), n. [G. demant diamond + -oid.] (Min.) A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.
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Demarcate (?), v. t. [See .] To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson.
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Demarcation (?), n. [F. démarcation; pref. dé- (L. de) + marquer to mark, of German origin. See .] The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
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The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.
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Demarch (?), n. [F. démarche. See , n.] March; walk; gait. [Obs.]
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Demarch (dēmärk), n. [Gr. dhmarchos; dh^mos people + 'archein to rule.] A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.
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Demarkation, n. Same as .
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demasculinization n. the act or process of demasculinizing; the removal of the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculation, castration.
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demasculinize v. t. to remove the testicles of a male animal.
Syn. -- emasculate, castrate.
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Dematerialize (?), v. t. To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
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Dematerializing matter by stripping it of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
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Deme (dēm), n. [Gr. dh^mos.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township. Jowett (Thucyd.).
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2. (Biol.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.
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Demean (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se démener to struggle; pref. dé- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See .] 1. To manage; to conduct; to treat.
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[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton.
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2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
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They have demeaned themselves
Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak.
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They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.
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