Dictionary: DIK'ING – DIL'A-TO-RI-LY

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DIK'ING, ppr.

Surrounding with a dike.

DI-LAC'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. dilacero; di and lacero, to tear.]

To tear; to rend asunder; to separate by force. – Brown.

DI-LAC'ER-A-TED, pp.

Torn; rent asunder.

DI-LAC'ER-A-TING, ppr.

Tearing; rending in two.

DI-LAC-ER-A'TION, n.

The act of rending asunder; a tearing, or rending. [In lieu of these words, lacerate, laceration are generally used.]

DI-LA'NI-A-TE, v.t. [L. dilanio; di and lanio, to rend in pieces.]

To tear; to rend in pieces; to mangle. [Little used.] – Howell.

DI-LA'NI-A-TION, n.

A tearing in pieces.

DI-LAP'I-DATE, v.i. [L. dilapido; di and lapido, to stone, from lapis, a stone. It seems originally to have signified to pull down stone-work, or to suffer such work to fall to pieces.]

To go to ruin; to fall by decay.

DI-LAP'I-DATE, v.t.

  1. To pull down; to waste or destroy; to suffer to go to ruin. If the bishop, parson, or vicar, &c., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony of the church. – Blackstone.
  2. To waste; to squander.

DI-LAP'I-DA-TED, pp.

Wasted; ruined; pulled down; suffered to go to ruin.

DI-LAP'I-DA-TING, ppr.

Wasting; pulling down; suffering to go to ruin.

DI-LAP'I-DA-TION, n.

  1. Ecclesiastical waste; a voluntary wasting or suffering to go to decay any building in possession of an incumbent. Dilapidation is voluntary or active, when an incumbent pulls down a building; permissive or passive, when he suffers it to decay and neglects to repair it. Dilapidation extends to the waste or destruction of wood, and other property of the church. – Blackstone.
  2. Destruction; demolition; decay; ruin. – Bryant.
  3. Peculation. – Stephens.

DI-LAP'I-DA-TOR, n.

One who causes dilapidation.

DI-LA-TA-BIL'I-TY, n. [See Dilate.]

The quality of admitting expansion by the elastic force of the body itself, or of another elastic substance acting upon it; opposed to contractability.

DI-LAT'A-BLE, a.

Capable of expansion; possessing elasticity; elastic. A bladder is dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat. It is opposed to contractible.

DIL-A-TA'TION, n.

The act of expanding; expansion; a spreading or extending in all directions; the state of being expanded; opposed to contraction. Dilatation differs from extension, as the latter is applied to lines and surfaces; the former to bodies that spread, open or enlarge in all directions. A line or a plain is extended; a bladder, an artery, a balloon is dilated.

DI-LATE', a.

Expanded; expansive.

DI-LATE', v.i.

  1. To widen; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions. His heart dilates and glories in his strength. – Addison.
  2. To speak largely and copiously; to dwell on in narration. An advocate may weaken his argument by dilating on trivial circumstances.

DI-LATE', v.t. [L. dilato; di and latus, wide; Fr. dilater; It. dilatare; Sp. dilatar. See Delay.]

  1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; opposed to contract. The air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by rarefaction.
  2. To enlarge; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely; as, to dilate upon the policy of a measure. In this sense, it is generally used intransitively. Spenser and Shakspeare have used it in a transitive sense; as, to dilate a theme.

DI-LAT'ED, pp.

Expanded; distended; enlarged so as to occupy a greater space.

DI-LAT'ER, n.

One who enlarges; that which expands.

DI-LAT'ING, ppr.

Expanding; enlarging; speaking largely.

DI-LA'TION, n.

Delay.

DI-LAT'OR, n.

That which widens or expands; a muscle that dilates.

DIL'A-TO-RI-LY, adv.

With delay; tardily.