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Design (?), n. [Cf. dessein, dessin.] 1. A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
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2. A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
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The vast design and purpos� of the King. Tennyson.
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The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam.
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A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke.
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How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.
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3. Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
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4. The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
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5. (Mus.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
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Coloq. Arts of design , those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. -- Coloq. School of design , one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.

Syn. -- Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea. -- , , . Design has reference to something definitely aimed at. Intention points to the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought. Purpose has reference to a settled choice or determination for its attainment. “I had no design to injure you,” means it was no part of my aim or object. “I had no intention to injure you,” means, I had no wish or desire of that kind. “My purpose was directly the reverse,” makes the case still stronger.
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Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life? Tillotson.
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I wish others the same intention, and greater successes. Sir W. Temple.
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It is the purpose that makes strong the vow. Shak.
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Designable (?), a. Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.
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Designate (?), a. [L. designatus, p. p. of designare. See , v. t.] Designated; appointed; chosen. [R.] Sir G. Buck.
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Designate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Designated; p. pr. & vb. n. Designating.] 1. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
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2. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
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3. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; as, to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

Syn. -- To name; denominate; style; entitle; characterize; describe.
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Designation (?), n. [L. designatio: cf. F. désignation.] 1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
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2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
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3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
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The usual designation of the days of the week. Whewell.
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4. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
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Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things which have parts. Locke.
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Designative (?), a. [Cf. F. désignatif.] Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
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Designator (?), n. [L.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
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2. One who designates.
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Designatory (?), a. Serving to designate; designative; indicating. [R.]
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Designedly (?), adv. By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
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Designer (?), n. 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
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2. (Fine Arts) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.
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3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
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Designful (?), a. Full of design; scheming. [R.] -- Designfulness, n. [R.] Barrow.
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Designing, a. Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
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Designing, n. The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
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Designless, a. Without design. [Obs.] -- Designlessly, adv. [Obs.]
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Designment (?), n. 1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. [Obs.]
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For though that some mean artist's skill were shown
In mingling colors, or in placing light,
Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.
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2. Design; purpose; scheme. [Obs.] Shak.
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Desilver (?), v. t. To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.
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Desilverization (?), n. The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.
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Desilverize (?), v. t. To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.
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Desinence (?), n. [Cf. F. désinence.] Termination; ending. Bp. Hall.
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Desinent (?), a. [L. desinens, p. pr. of desinere, desitum, to leave off, cease; de- + sinere to let, allow.] Ending; forming an end; lowermost. [Obs.] “Their desinent parts, fish.” B. Jonson.
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Desinential (?), a. [Cf. F. désinentiel.] Terminal.
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Furthermore, b, as a desinential element, has a dynamic function. Fitzed. Hall.
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Desipient (?), a. [L. desipiens, p. pr. of desipere to be foolish; de- + sapere to be wise.] Foolish; silly; trifling. [R.]
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Desirability, n. The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
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Desirable (?), a. [F. désirable, fr. L. desiderabilis. See , v. t.] Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
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All of them desirable young men. Ezek. xxiii. 12.
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As things desirable excite
Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.
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Desirableness, n. The quality of being desirable.
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The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.
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Desirably, adv. In a desirable manner.
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Desire (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Desiring.] [F. désirer, L. desiderare, origin uncertain, perh. fr. de- + sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the stars. Cf. , and , and see .] 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
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Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24.
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Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson.
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2. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
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Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? 2 Kings iv. 28.
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Desire him to go in; trouble him no more. Shak.
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3. To require; to demand; to claim. [Obs.]
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A doleful case desires a doleful song. Spenser.
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4. To miss; to regret. [Obs.]
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She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies. Jer. Taylor.

Syn. -- To long for; hanker after; covet; wish; ask; request; solicit; entreat; beg. -- To , . In desire the feeling is usually more eager than in wish. “I wish you to do this” is a milder form of command than “I desire you to do this,” though the feeling prompting the injunction may be the same. C. J. Smith.
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Desire, n. [F. désir, fr. désirer. See , v. t.] 1. The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
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Unspeakable desire to see and know. Milton.
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2. An expressed wish; a request; petition.
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And slowly was my mother brought
To yield consent to my desire. Tennyson.
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3. Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
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The Desire of all nations shall come. Hag. ii. 7.
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4. Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
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5. Grief; regret. [Obs.] Chapman.

Syn. -- Wish; appetency; craving; inclination; eagerness; aspiration; longing.
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Desireful (?), a. Filled with desire; eager. [R.]
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The desireful troops. Godfrey (1594).
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Desirefulness, n. The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. [R.]
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The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
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Desireless, a. Free from desire. Donne.
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Desirer (?), n. One who desires, asks, or wishes.
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Desirous (?), a. [F. désireux, OF. desiros, fr. desir. See , n.] Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
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Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. John xvi. 19.
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Be not desirous of his dainties. Prov. xxiii. 3.
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Desirously, adv. With desire; eagerly.
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Desirousness, n. The state of being desirous.
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Desist (?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Desisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Desisting.] [L. desistere; de- + sistere to stand, stop, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. désister. See .] To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
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Never desisting to do evil. E. Hall.
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To desist from his bad practice. Massinger.
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Desist (thou art discern'd,
And toil'st in vain). Milton.
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Desistance (?), n. [Cf. F. desistance.] The act or state of desisting; cessation. [R.] Boyle.
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If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.
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Desistive (?), a. [See .] Final; conclusive; ending. [R.]
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Desition (?), n. [See .] An end or ending. [R.]
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Desitive (?), a. Final; serving to complete; conclusive. [Obs.] “Desitive propositions.” I. Watts.
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Desitive, n. (Logic) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion. [Obs.] I. Watts.
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Desk (?), n. [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See , and cf. .] 1. A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
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2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for “the clerical profession.”
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Desk, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Desking.] To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
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Deskwork (?), n. Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson.
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Desman (dĕsm�n), n. [Cf. Sw. desman musk.] (Zoöl.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers. [Written also dæsman.]

{ Desmid (?), Desmidian (?), } n. [Gr. desmos chain + e'i^dos form.] (Bot.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiæ, a group of unicellular algæ in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
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Desmine (?), n. [Gr. desmh, desmos, bundle, fr. dei^n to bind.] (Min.) Same as . It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
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Desmobacteria (dĕsm�băktērĭȧ), n. pl. [Gr. desmos bond + E. bacteria.] See .
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Desmodontidae n. a natural family comprisng the true vampire bats.
Syn. -- family Desmodontidae.
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Desmodus n. the type genus of the Desmodontidae, consisting of vampire bats.
Syn. -- genus Desmodus.
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Desmodont (dĕsm�dŏnt), n. [Gr. desmos bond + 'odoys, 'odontos, tooth.] (Zoöl.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See .
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Desmognathous (?), a. [Gr. desmos bond + gnaqos jaw.] (Zoöl.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
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Desmoid (?), a. [Gr. desmos ligament + -oid.] (Anat.) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
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Desmology (?), n. [Gr. desmos ligament + -logy.] The science which treats of the ligaments. [R.]
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Desmomyaria (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � bond + � muscle.] (Zoöl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpæ. See .
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Desolate (?), a. [L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to leave alone, forsake; de- + solare to make lonely, solus alone. See , a.] 1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
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I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11.
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And the silvery marish flowers that throng
The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson.
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2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
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3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
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Have mercy upon, for I am desolate. Ps. xxv. 16.
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Voice of the poor and desolate. Keble.
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4. Lost to shame; dissolute. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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5. Destitute of; lacking in. [Obs.]
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I were right now of tales desolate. Chaucer.

Syn. -- Desert; uninhabited; lonely; waste.
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Desolate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desolating.] 1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
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2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
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Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. Sparks.
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desolated adj. reduced to a barren and lifeless state.
Syn. -- blasted, desolate, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted.
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Desolately (?), adv. In a desolate manner.
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Desolateness, n. The state of being desolate.
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Desolater (?), n. One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.
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Desolation (?), n. [F. désolation, L. desolatio.] 1. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
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Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26.
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2. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
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You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . .
And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak.
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3. A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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How is Babylon become a desolation! Jer. l. 23.

Syn. -- Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation; ravage; sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess.
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Desolator (?), n. [L.] Same as . Byron.
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Desolatory (?), a. [L. desolatorius.] Causing desolation. [R.] Bp. Hall.
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Desophisticate (?), v. t. To clear from sophism or error. [R.] Hare.
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Desoxalic (?), a. [F. pref. des- from + E. oxalic.] (Chem.) Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.
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desoxyribonucleic acid n. same as .
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Despair (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Despaired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Despairing.] [OE. despeiren, dispeiren, OF. desperer, fr. L. desperare; de- + sperare to hope; akin to spes hope, and perh. to spatium space, E. space, speed; cf. OF. espeir hope, F. espoir. Cf. , .] To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
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We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8.
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Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake.

Syn. -- See .
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Despair, v. t. 1. To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. [Obs.]
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I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted. Milton.
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2. To cause to despair. [Obs.] Sir W. Williams.
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Despair, n. [Cf. OF. despoir, fr. desperer.] 1. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
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We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro,
Pine with regret, or sicken with despair. Keble.
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Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair. Macaulay.
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