In a destinable manner.

Determined by destiny; fated.

To destine, design, or choose.

The act of destining or appointing.

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.

A believer in destiny; a fatalist.

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

Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.

In destitution.

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.

To 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.

Destructible.

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

One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

To destroy.

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

The quality of being destructible.

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

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

One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.

energy-releasing (prenominal); same as catabolic.

In a destructive manner.

The quality of destroying or ruining.

A destroyer.

To destroy.

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

Disused; out of use.

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

To deprive of sulphur.

The act or process of depriving of sulphur.

To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness.

Desultory.

Leaping or skipping about.

To select; to borrow.

to cause a process to occur at times or in cycles independent of another process.

a process causing an absence of synchronization; the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times; as, the stimulus produced a desynchronizing of the brain waves.

The act of desynonymizing.

To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.

To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

That can be detached.

Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.

Developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, a detailed plan.

One who details.

description of something in detail.

confidential information.

Detention.

A writ. See Detinue.

One who detains.

Detention.

To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.

One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.

Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable.

One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.

One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.

To remove darkness from.

That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.

the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations), as by agreement, negotiation, or tacit understandings.

The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

A cleansing quality or power.

Cleansing; purging. A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

going from better to worse.

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

Worse state or quality; inferiority.

The act of deterring; also, that which deters.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness.

Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion.

Capability of being determined; determinability.

Determinateness.

That which serves to determine; that which causes determination.

To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine.

In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.

State of being determinate.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

That which serves to determine.

One who determines.

To come to an end; to end; to terminate.

Decided; resolute.

In a determined manner; with determination.

One who, or that which, determines or decides.

The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives, preceding events, and natural laws.

One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.

of or pertaining to determinism; as, deterministic theories.

The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground.

That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance.

That which deters or prevents.

The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.

Cleansing; detergent. A cleansing agent; a detergent.

In a way to cleanse.

The quality of cleansing.

To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

Capacity of being odious.

Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.

The quality or state of being detestable.

In a detestable manner.

To detest.

The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.

One who detests.

To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.

Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.

One who dethrones.

Dethronement.

To dethrone or unthrone.

A person or thing detained A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

from Detonate.

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances; as, the detonation of gun cotton.

One that detonates An explosive whose action is practically instantaneous. Something used to detonate a charge, as a detonating fuse. A case containing detonating powder, the explosion of which serves as a signal, as on railroads. A gun fired by a percussion cap.

The act of detonizing; detonation.