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.]

  1. 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.
  2. To embarrass; to disorder; as, his private affairs are deranged.
  3. To disorder the intellect; to disturb the regular operations of reason.
  4. 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.

  1. A putting out of order; disturbing regularity or regular course; embarrassment. – Washington.
  2. Disorder of the intellect or reason; delirium; insanity; as, a derangement of the mental organs. – Paley.

DE-RANG'ING, ppr.

  1. Putting out of order; disturbance of regularity or regular course; embarrassment; confusion. – Hamilton.
  2. 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.

  1. In law, an article of goods, or any commodity, thrown away, relinquished or abandoned by the owner.
  2. A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

DER-E-LIC'TION, n. [L. derelictio.]

  1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim; an utter forsaking; abandonment.
  2. The state of being left or abandoned. – Hooker.
  3. 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.

  1. One who laughs at another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. – Hooker.
  2. 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.]

  1. The act of laughing at in contempt.
  2. Contempt manifested by laughter; scorn. I am in derision daily. – Jer. xx.
  3. An object of derision or contempt; a laughing-stock. I was a derision to all my people. – Lam. iii.