Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DEP'U-TY-SHER-IF – DE-RI'SION
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DEP'U-TY-SHER-IF, n.
A person deputed or authorized to perform the duties of the sherif, as his substitute. In like manner, we use deputy-commissary, deputy-paymaster, &c.
DE-QUAN'TI-TATE, v.t.
To diminish the quantity of. [Not in use.]
DER, n. [DER-.]
Prefixed to names of places, may be from Sax. deor, a wild beast, or from dur, water.
DE-RAC'IN-ATE, v.t. [Fr. deraciner; de and racine, a root.]
To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [Little used.] – Shak.
DE-RAC'IN-A-TED, pp.
Plucked up by the roots; extirpated.
DE-RAC'IN-A-TING, ppr.
Tearing up by the roots; extirpating.
DE-RAIGN', or DE-RAIN', v.t. [Norm. derener, dereigner, deraigner, or derainer.]
To prove; to justify; to vindicate, as an assertion; to clear one's self. [An old law term, now disused.]
DE-RAIGN'MENT, or DE-RAIN'MENT, n.
The act of deraining; proof; justification. A like word was formerly used in the sense of disordering, derangement, a discharge from a profession, or departure from a religious order. [Fr. deranger; de and ranger.]
DE-RANGE', v.t. [Fr. deranger; de and ranger, to set in order, from rang, rank; Arm. direncqa.]
- To put out of order; to disturb the regular order of; to throw into confusion; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation. I had long supposed that nothing could derange or interrupt the course of putrefaction. Lavoisier, Tran.
- To embarrass; to disorder; as, his private affairs are deranged.
- To disorder the intellect; to disturb the regular operations of reason.
- To remove from place or office, as the personal staff of a principal military officer. Thus when a general officer resigns or is removed from office, the personal staff appointed by himself are said to be deranged. – W. H. Sumner.
DE-RANG'ED, pp.
Put out of order; disturbed; embarrassed, confused; disordered in mind; delirious; distracted.
DE-RANGE'MENT, n.
- A putting out of order; disturbing regularity or regular course; embarrassment. – Washington.
- Disorder of the intellect or reason; delirium; insanity; as, a derangement of the mental organs. – Paley.
DE-RANG'ING, ppr.
- Putting out of order; disturbance of regularity or regular course; embarrassment; confusion. – Hamilton.
- Disordering the rational powers.
DE-RAY', v.t. [from the French.]
Tumult; disorder; merriment. [Not in use.] – Douglas.
DERE, v.t. [Sax. derian.]
To hurt. [Obs.]
DER'E-LICT, a. [L. derelictus, derelinquo; de and relinquo, to leave, re and linquo, id. Class Lg.]
Left; abandoned.
DER'E-LICT, n.
- In law, an article of goods, or any commodity, thrown away, relinquished or abandoned by the owner.
- A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
DER-E-LIC'TION, n. [L. derelictio.]
- The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim; an utter forsaking; abandonment.
- The state of being left or abandoned. – Hooker.
- The leaving or receding from; as, the dereliction of the sea. – Blackstone.
DER'IC, n.
A stick of timber erected near the hatches of a ship, to sustain a pulley for raising weights.
DE-RIDE', v.t. [L. derideo; de and rideo, to laugh; It. deridere. In Fr. derider is to unwrinkle, from ride, a wrinkle. Probably the primary sense of L. rideo is to wrinkle, to grin.]
To laugh at in contempt; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to treat with scorn by laughter. The Pharisees also … derided him. – Luke xvi. Some, who adore Newton for his fluxions, deride him for his religion. – Berkeley.
DE-RID'ED, pp.
Laughed at in contempt; mocked; ridiculed.
DE-RID'ER, n.
- One who laughs at another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. – Hooker.
- A droll or buffoon.
DE-RID'ING, ppr.
Laughing at with contempt; mocking; ridiculing.
DE-RID'ING-LY, adv.
By way of derision or mockery.
DER'ING, ppr.
Hurting; injuring. [Not used.]
DE-RI'SION, n. [s as z; L. derisio. See Deride.]
- The act of laughing at in contempt.
- Contempt manifested by laughter; scorn. I am in derision daily. – Jer. xx.
- An object of derision or contempt; a laughing-stock. I was a derision to all my people. – Lam. iii.