One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.
A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.
Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic.
A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
One in subjection to a demon, or to demons.
The dominion of demons.
Demoniacal influence or possession.
The state of a demon.
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.
In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.
Demonstration; proof.
To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
having been proved or verified beyond doubt; proved by demonstration.
See Demonstrator.
The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.
A demonstrative pronoun; as, /this/ and /that/ are demonstratives.
In a manner fitted to demonstrate; clearly; convincingly; forcibly.
The state or quality of being demonstrative.
One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence. one who shows how a certain device operates or a procedure is performed.
Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative.
Demurrage.
The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
made less hopeful or enthusiastic; rendered pessimistic; as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.
discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.
a famous Grecian orator, born circa 385 BC, died circa 322 BC.
Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.
To reduce to a lower grade or rank, as in the military, one's employment, or in school; to assign to a lower position.
Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.
To dismount.
To damn; to condemn.
A deemster.
To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.
A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents.
The act of soothing; that which soothes.
Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
To look demurely.
In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.
The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
Demureness; also, one who is demure.
That may be demurred to.
The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing. The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention.
Demur; delay in acting or deciding.
One who demurs.
Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.
same as demythologization.
the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms.
to remove the mythical elements from; -- of writings, such as the Bible.
having mythical elements removed.
To live in, or as in, a den.
The native name for Mount McKinley in Alaska, translated as the great one.
To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium.
A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the /penny/ of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.
The number ten; a division into ten.
same as denationalization.
The act or process of denationalizing.
To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
To become denatured.
changed in nature or natural quality.
Denial; refusal.
Arborescent or dendritic agate.
a genus comprising plants often included in the genus Chrysanthemum.
a genus of African snakes comprising the mambas.
Resembling in structure a tree or shrub; having a branching shape.
A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.
Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.
a genus of African snakes comprising the mambas.
A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.
Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike; branching.
a genus comprising the tree wallabies.
A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.
One versed in the natural history of trees.
Relating to dendrology.
the branch of botany studying trees and shrubs; the natural history of trees.
a genus having only one species, the bush poppy.
An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.
To deny.
Denial.
A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
Denial.
A small copper coin of insignificant value.
To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.
The act of making black.
One who, or that which, blackens.
same as denigrating.
A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.
A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.
The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.
To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.
The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.
To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.
To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
Denization; denizening.
To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen.
State of being a denizen.
A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.
Capable of being denominated or named.
Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound.
The act of naming or designating.
Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.
A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.
One imbued with a denominational spirit.
In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
A denominative name or term; denominative verb.
By denomination.
One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.
Capable of being denoted or marked.
To mark off; to denote.
The marking off or separation of anything.
Having power to denote; designating or marking off.
the actual object referred to by a linguistic expression.
To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.
Sign; indication.
Serving to denote.