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Desmology

The science which treats of the ligaments.

Desmomyaria

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salp/. See Salpa.

Desolate

To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

desolated

reduced to a barren and lifeless state.

Desolater

One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.

Desolation

The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.

Desoxalic

Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.

Despair

Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

Despairing

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.

Despecificate

To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.

Despend

To spend; to squander. See Dispend.

Desperado

A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.

Desperately

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.

Desperation

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

Despicable

Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

Despicableness

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

Despicably

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

Despise

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

Despiser

One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.

Despite

In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

Despiteful

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.

Despiteous

Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

Despoil

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

despoiled

having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.

Despoina

the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina.

despond

To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.

Despondency

The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

Despondent

Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.

Despot

A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.

Despotat

The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.

Despotical Despotic

Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.

Despotism

The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.

Despumate

To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

Despumation

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

Desquamate

To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

Desquamation

The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

Desquamatory

An instrument formerly used in removing the lamin/ of exfoliated bones.

Dessert

A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

Destine

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.

Destiny

That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

Destituent

Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.

Destitute

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.

Destitution

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

Destroy

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

destroyed

p. p. of destroy. Also See: damaged.

Destroyer

One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

Destructibility

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

Destructible

Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

Destruction

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

Destructionist

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

Destructive

One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.

Desudation

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

Desuetude

The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.

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