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Deoppilative (?), a. & n. (Med.) Deobstruent; aperient. [Obs.] Harvey.
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Deordination (?), n. [LL. deordinatio depraved morality.] Disorder; dissoluteness. [Obs.]
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Excess of riot and deordination. Jer. Taylor.
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Deosculate (?), v. t. [L. deosculatus, p. p. of deosculari. See .] To kiss warmly. [Obs.] -- Deosculation (#), n. [Obs.]
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Deoxidate (?), v. t. (Chem.) To deoxidize.
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Deoxidation (?), n. (Chem.) The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.
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Deoxidization (?), n. (Chem.) Deoxidation.
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Deoxidize (?), v. t. (Chem.) To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.
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Deoxidizer (?), n. (Chem.) That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.
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Deoxygenate (?), v. t. (Chem.) To deoxidize. [Obs.]
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Deoxygenation (?), n. (Chem.) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.
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Deoxygenize (?), v. t. (Chem.) To deoxidize.
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deoxyribonucleic acid n. a nucleic acid, usually of very high molecular weight, consisting of a linear sequence of monomer units of deoxyribonucleotides, occurring in most organisms in pairs of strands, wound together in the form of a double helix; it is the main component of chromosomes and contains the genetic information which is the basis of heredity, transmitted from parent to progeny, and found in all living organisms except for certain viruses which have RNA as their basic genetic material; -- usually referred to by the acronym DNA.
Syn. -- DNA, desoxyribonucleic acid.
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☞ The monomer units making up the DNA each contain one of four heterocyclic bases: thymine, adenine, cytosine, or guanine. The genetic information is contained in the precise sequence of these monomer units, which ultimately specify the sequence of proteins to be made by the organism's biosynthetic processes, mediated through the synthesis of RNA having a base sequence corresponding to that of the DNA. The DNA sequence also specifies the sequence of the various RNA molecules the RNA base sequence being a copy of that on one of the DNA strands. Most of the RNA synthesized is involved in protein synthesis. In the double-helical form of DNA, the thymine on one strand is paired with the adenine on the opposite strand, and cytosine of one strand is paired with guanine on the opposite strand. There is in DNA also certain controlling information concerning the timing and amount of RNA to be made, encoded within the sequence of the DNA in ways that are still being elucidated.
When this structure is replicated in the course of cell multiplication, two identical double-helical molecules are formed, each containing one strand from the original molecule. Each resulting molecule is distributred to either the parent or progeny organism, and this is the basic mechanism for transmission of hereditary information. In RNA-based viruses, or those having single strands of DNA (as certain viruses), the genetic information transmission occurs through a double-stranded intermediate by a similar mechanism.
In some organisms slight modifications of the bases of DNA are found, such as methylcytosine or, in some viruses, uracil or hydroxymethyluracil; these unusual bases act analogously to the normal bases in their genetic coding function. A small percentage of methylcytosine is found in many organisms, and it serves in some cases as a special signal, as for restriction enzymes.
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deoxyribonucleotide n. an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose. Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up , the molecule carrying the hereditary information in most organisms. The most common forms of deoxyribonuceotide are thymidine-5′-phosphate (abbreviated TMP), deoxyadenosine-5′-phosphate (abbreviated dAMP), deoxyguanosine-5′-phosphate (abbreviated dGMP), and deoxycytidine-5′-phosphate (abbreviated dCMP).
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deoxyribose n. a pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.
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deoxyribosenucleic acid n. same as . [Rare]
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Depaint (?), p. p. [F. dépeint, p. p. of dépeindre to paint, fr. L. depingere. See , p. p.] Painted. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Depaint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depainting.] 1. To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [Obs.]
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And do unwilling worship to the saint
That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser.
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In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland.
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2. To mark with, or as with, color; to color.
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Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. Fairfax.
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Depainter (?) n. One who depaints. [Obs.]
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Depardieux (?), interj. [OF., a corruption of de part Dieu, lit., on the part of God.] In God's name; certainly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Depart (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing.] [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. départir to divide, distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See .] 1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Shak.
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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.
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I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30.
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Ere thou from hence depart. Milton.
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He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart. Shak.
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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.
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If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.
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4. To pass away; to perish.
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The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21.
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5. To quit this world; to die.
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Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Luke ii. 29.
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Coloq. To depart with , to resign; to part with. [Obs.] Shak.
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Depart, v. t. 1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.]
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Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer.
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2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.]
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And here is gold, and that full great plentee,
That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.
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3. To leave; to depart from. “He departed this life.” Addison. “Ere I depart his house.” Shak.
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Depart, n. [Cf. F. départ, fr. départir.] 1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.]
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The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon.
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2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.]
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At my depart for France. Shak.
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Your loss and his depart. Shak.
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Departable (?), a. Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.
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departed n. sing. & pl. someone who is no longer alive; as, let us pray for the departed.
Syn. -- dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent.
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departed adj. 1. past; -- used of time; as, departed summers.
Syn. -- bygone, bypast, foregone, gone.
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2. dead; as, our dear departed parents. [euphemistic]
Syn. -- asleep(predicate), at peace(predicate), at rest(predicate), cold, deceased, gone.
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departing adj. leaving a starting or stopping point on a journey; as, Departing flights were delayed by the snowstorm. Opposite of arriving. [prenominal]
Syn. -- outbound, outward, outward-bound.
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Departer (?), n. 1. One who refines metals by separation. [Obs.]
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2. One who departs.
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Department (?), n. [F. département, fr. départir. See , v. i.] 1. Act of departing; departure. [Obs.]
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Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.
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2. A part, portion, or subdivision.
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3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
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Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.
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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.
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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.
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6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
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Departmental (?), a. Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
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Department store. A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments.
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Departure (?; 135), n. [From .] 1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.]
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No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
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2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
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Departure from this happy place. Milton.
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3. Removal from the present life; death; decease.
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The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. iv. 6.
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His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. Sir P. Sidney.
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4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
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Any departure from a national standard. Prescott.
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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.
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6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
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☞ 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.
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Coloq. 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 .
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Depascent (?), a. [L. depascens, p. pr. of depascere; de- + pascere to feed.] Feeding. [R.]
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Depasture (?; 135), v. t. & i. To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.]
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Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone.
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A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.
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Depatriate (?), v. t. & i. [L. de- + patria one's country.] To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [Obs.]
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A subject born in any state
May, if he please, depatriate. Mason.
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Depauperate (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Depauperated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Depauperating (?).] [LL. depauperatus, p. p. depauperare to impoverish; L. de- + pauperare to make poor, pauper poor.] To make poor; to impoverish.
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Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain. Mortimer.
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Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit. Jer. Taylor.
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Depauperate (?), a. [L. depauperatus, p. p.] (Bot.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Gray.
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Depauperize (?), v. t. To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [R.]
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Depeach (?), v. t. [L. dépêcher. See .] To discharge. [Obs.]
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As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached. Hakluyt.
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Depectible (?), a. [L. depectere to comb off; de- + pectere to comb.] Tough; thick; capable of extension. [Obs.]
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Some bodies are of a more depectible nature than oil. Bacon.
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Depeculation (?), n. [L. depeculari, p. p. depeculatus, to rob. See .] A robbing or embezzlement. [Obs.]
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Depeculation of the public treasure. Hobbes.
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Depeinct (?), v. t. [See .] To paint. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Depend (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Depended; p. pr. & vb. n. Depending.] [F. dépendre, fr. L. depend�re; de- + pend�re to hang. See .] 1. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
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And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.
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2. To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.
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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.
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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.
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The truth of God's word dependeth not of the truth of the congregation. Tyndale.
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The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend. Pope.
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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.
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But if you 're rough, and use him like a dog,
Depend upon it -- he 'll remain incog. Addison.
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5. To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer. [Obs.] Shak.
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6. To impend. [Obs.] Shak.
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dependability n. the trait of being dependable or reliable.
Syn. -- dependableness, reliability, reliableness.
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Dependable (?), a. Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. “Dependable friendships.” Pope.

{ Dependant (?), Dependance (?), n., Dependancy (?) }, n. See , , .
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☞ 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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Dependence (?), n. [LL. dependentia, fr. L. dependens. See , and cf. .] 1. The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.
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2. The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause).
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The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another. Bp. Burnet.
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3. Mutual connection and support; concatenation; systematic inter-relation.
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So dark and so intricate of purpose, without any dependence or order. Sir T. More.
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4. Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self; a lack of independence or self-sufficiency.
Syn. -- dependance, dependency.
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Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy. Burke.
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5. A resting with confidence; reliance; trust.
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Affectionate dependence on the Creator is the spiritual life of the soul. T. Erskine.
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6. That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.
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7. That which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else.
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Like a large cluster of black grapes they show
And make a large dependence from the bough. Dryden.
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8. A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel. [Obs.]
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To go on now with my first dependence. Beau. & Fl.
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Dependency (?), n.; pl. Dependencies (�). 1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
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Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds.
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So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon.
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2. A thing hanging down; a dependence.
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3. That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.
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This earth and its dependencies. T. Burnet.
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Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. Locke.
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4. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.
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☞ Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in meaning to 3 and 4.
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Dependent (?), a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr. dependere. See , and cf. .] 1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of independent. [Narrower terms: interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial; parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking; subordinate; underage; myrmecophilous; symbiotic] Also See: .
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England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. Macaulay.
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3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.
Syn. -- qualified.
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4. addicted to drugs.
Syn. -- addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
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Coloq. Dependent covenant or Coloq. Dependent contract (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed. -- Coloq. Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.
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Dependent, n. 1. One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for financial support or favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.
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A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their part as witnesses. Hallam.
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2. That which depends; corollary; consequence.
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With all its circumstances and dependents. Prynne.
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☞ See the Note under .
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Dependently, adv. In a dependent manner.
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Depender (?), n. One who depends; a dependent.
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Dependingly, adv. As having dependence. Hale.
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Depeople (?), v. t. To depopulate. [Obs.]
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Deperdit (?), n. [LL. deperditum, fr. L. deperditus, p. p. of deperdere; de- + perdere to lose, destroy.] That which is lost or destroyed. [R.] Paley.
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Deperditely (?), adv. Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked. [Archaic]
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Deperdition (?), n. [Cf. F. déperdition.] Loss; destruction. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.
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Depertible (?), a. [See .] Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Dephase (?), v. t. (Elec.) To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.
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Dephlegm (?), v. t. [Pref. de- + phlegm water; cf. F. déphlegmer, déflegmer.] (O. Chem.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. [Obs.] Boyle.
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Dephlegmate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dephlegmated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dephlegmating.] [See .] (Chem.) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.
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Dephlegmation (?), n. [Cf. F. déflegmation.] (Chem.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]
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Dephlegmator (?), n. An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
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Dephlegmatory (?), a. Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
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Dephlegmedness (?), n. A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] Boyle.
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Dephlogisticcate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dephlogisticated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dephlogisticating.] [Pref. de- + phlosticate: cf. F. déphlogistiguer.] (O. Chem.) To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Priestley.
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Coloq. Dephlogisticated air , oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time.

-- Dephlogistication (#), n.
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Dephosphorization (?), n. The act of freeing from phosphorous.
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Depict (d�pĭkt), p. p. [L. depictus, p. p. of depingere to depict; de- + pingere to paint. See , and cf. , p. p.] Depicted. Lydgate.
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