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.]

  1. The act of deflouring; the act of depriving of the flower, or prime beauties; particularly, the act of taking away a woman's virginity.
  2. 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.]

  1. To deprive a woman of her virginity, either by force or with consent. When by force, it may be equivalent to ravish or violate.
  2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of any thing. The sweetness of his soul was defloured. – Taylor.
  3. 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.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.]

  1. 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.
  2. To render ugly or displeasing, by exterior applications or appendages; as, to deform the face by paint, or the person by unbecoming dress.
  3. To render displeasing. Wintry blasts deform the year. – Thomson.
  4. To injure and render displeasing or disgusting; to disgrace; to disfigure moral beauty; as, all vices deform the character of rational beings.
  5. To dishonor; to make ungraceful. – Dryden.

DE-FORM-A'TION, n.

A disfiguring or defacing. – Baxter.

DE-FORM'ED, pp.

  1. Injured in the form; disfigured; distorted; ugly; wanting natural beauty or symmetry.
  2. 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.