Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DEF'LO-RATE – DE-FORM'ER
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DEF'LO-RATE, a. [L. defloratus, from defloro, to deflour; de and floreo, flos. See Flower.]
In botany, having cast its farin, pollen, or fecundating dust. – Martyn.
DEF-LO-RA'TION, n. [Fr. See Deflour.]
- The act of deflouring; the act of depriving of the flower, or prime beauties; particularly, the act of taking away a woman's virginity.
- A selection of the flower, or of that which is most valuable. The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws. – Hale.
DE-FLOUR', v.t. [L. defloro; de and floreo, or flos, a flower; Fr. deflorer; It. deflorare, or defiorare; Sp. desflorar. See Flower.]
- To deprive a woman of her virginity, either by force or with consent. When by force, it may be equivalent to ravish or violate.
- To take away the prime beauty and grace of any thing. The sweetness of his soul was defloured. – Taylor.
- To deprive of flowers. – Montagu.
DE-FLOUR'ED, pp.
Deprived of maidenhood; ravished; robbed of prime beauty.
DE-FLOUR'ER, n.
One who deprives a woman of her virginity.
DE-FLOUR'ING, ppr.
Depriving of virginity or maidenhood; robbing of prime beauties.
DE-FLOW', v.i. [L. defluo.]
To flow down. [Not in use.] – Brown.
DEF'LU-OUS, a. [L. defluus; de and fluo, to flow.]
Flowing down; falling off. [Little used.]
DE-FLUX', n. [L. defluxus; de and fluo, fluxus. See Flow.]
A flowing down; a running downward; as, a deflux of humors. [See Defluxion.] – Bacon.
DE-FLUX'ION, n. [L. defluxio, from defluo, to flow down; de and fluo, to flow. See Flow.]
- A flowing, running or falling of humors or fluid matter, from a superior to an inferior part of the body; properly, an inflammation of a part, attended with increased secretion.
- A discharge or flowing off of humors; as, a defluxion from the nose or head in catarrh.
DEF'LY, adv.
Dextrously; skillfully. [Obs.] [See Deft.] – Spenser.
DE-FOE-DA'TION, n.
The act of making filthy.
DE-FO-LI-A'TION, n. [L. de and foliatio, foliage, from folium, a leaf, or folior. See Folio.]
Literally, the fall of the leaf or shedding of leaves; but technically, the time or season of shedding leaves in autumn; applied to trees and shrubs. – Linnæus.
DE-FORCE', v.t. [de and force.]
To disseize and keep out of lawful possession of an estate; to withhold the possession of an estate from the rightful owner; applied to any possessor whose entry was originally lawful, but whose detainer is become unlawful. – Blackstone.
DE-FORC'ED, pp.
Kept out of lawful possession.
DE-FORCE'MENT, n.
- The holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right; a general term including abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, or any other species of wrong, by which he that hath a right to the freehold is kept out of possession. – Blackstone.
- In Scotland, a resisting of an officer in the execution of law.
DE-FOR'CIANT, n.
He that keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate; he against whom a fictitious action is brought in fine and recovery. – Blackstone.
DE-FORC'ING, pp.
Keeping out of lawful possession.
DE-FORM', a. [L. deformis.]
Disfigured; being of an unnatural, distorted, or disproportioned form; displeasing to the eye. – Spenser. Sight so deform what heart of rock could long / Dry-eyed behold? – Milton.
DE-FORM', v.t. [L. deformo; de and forma, form; Sp. desformar; It. deformare.]
- To mar or injure the form; to alter that form or disposition of parts which is natural and esteemed beautiful, and thus to render it displeasing to the eye; to disfigure; as, a hump on the back deforms the body.
- To render ugly or displeasing, by exterior applications or appendages; as, to deform the face by paint, or the person by unbecoming dress.
- To render displeasing. Wintry blasts deform the year. – Thomson.
- To injure and render displeasing or disgusting; to disgrace; to disfigure moral beauty; as, all vices deform the character of rational beings.
- To dishonor; to make ungraceful. – Dryden.
DE-FORM-A'TION, n.
A disfiguring or defacing. – Baxter.
DE-FORM'ED, pp.
- Injured in the form; disfigured; distorted; ugly; wanting natural beauty or symmetry.
- Base; disgraceful. – B. Jonson.
DE-FORM'ED-LY, adv.
In an ugly manner.
DE-FORM'ED-NESS, n.
Ugliness; a disagreeable or unnatural form.
DE-FORM'ER, n.
One who deforms.