Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DE-RI'SIVE – DERM-A-TOL'O-GIST
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DE-RI'SIVE, a.
Containing derision; mocking; ridiculing. Derisive taunts. – Pope.
DE-RI'SIVE-LY, adv.
With mockery or contempt. – Herbert.
DE-RI'SIVE-NESS, n.
The state of being derisive.
DE-RI'SO-RY, a.
Mocking; ridiculing. – Shaftesbury.
DE-RIV'A-BLE, a. [See Derive.]
- That may be derived; that may be drawn, or received, as from a source. Income is derivable from land, money or stocks.
- That may be received from ancestors; as, an estate derivable from an ancestor.
- That may be drawn, as from premises; deducible; as, an argument derivable from facts or preceding propositions.
- That may be drawn from a radical word; as, a word derivable from an Oriental root.
DE-RIV'A-BLY, adv.
By derivation.
DER'I-VATE, n. [L. derivatus.]
A word derived from another. – Stuart.
DER'I-VATE, v.t. [L. derivo.]
To derive.
DER'I-VA-TED, pp.
Derived.
DER'I-VA-TING, ppr.
Deriving.
DER-I-VA'TION, n. [L. derivatio.]
- The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as, the derivation of an estate from ancestors, or of profits from capital, or of truth or facts from antiquity.
- In grammar, the drawing or tracing of a word from its root or original; as, derivation from the L. derivo, and the latter from rivus, a stream.
- A drawing from, or turning aside from, a natural course or channel; as, the derivation of water from its channel by lateral drains.
- A drawing of humors from one part of the body to another; as, the derivation of humors from the eye, by a blister on the neck.
- The thing derived or deduced. – Glanville.
DE-RIV'A-TIVE, a.
- Derived; taken or having proceeded from another or something preceding; secondary; as, a derivative perfection; a derivative conveyance, as a release. – Blackstone.
- A derivative chord, in music, is one derived from a fundamental chord.
DE-RIV'A-TIVE, n.
- That which is derived; a word which takes its origin in another word, or is formed from it. Thus, depravity is a derivative from the L. depravo, and acknowledge, from knowledge, and this from know, the primitive word.
- In music, a chord not fundamental.
DE-RIV'A-TIVE-LY, adv.
In a derivative manner; by derivation.
The state of being derivative.
DE-RIVE', v.i.
To come or proceed from. [Not common.] Power from heaven derives. – Prior.
DE-RIVE, v.t. [L. derivo; de and rivus, a stream; Fr. deriver; Sp. derivar; It. derivare.]
- To draw from, as in a regular course or channel; to receive from a source by a regular conveyance. The heir derives an estate from his ancestors. We derive from Adam mortal bodies and natures prone to sin.
- To draw or receive, as from a source or origin. We derive ideas from the senses, and instruction from good books.
- To deduce or draw, as from a root, or primitive word. A hundred words are often derived from a single monosyllabic root, and sometimes a much greater number.
- To turn from its natural course; to divert; as, to derive water from the main channel or current into lateral rivulets.
- To communicate from one to another by descent. An excellent disposition is derived to your lordship from your parents. – Felton.
- To spread in various directions; to cause to flow. The streams of justice were derived into every part of the kingdom. – Davies.
DE-RIV'ED, pp.
Drawn, as from a source; deduced; received; regularly conveyed; descended; communicated; transmitted.
DE-RIV'ER, n.
One who derives, or draws from a source. – South.
DE-RIV'ING, ppr.
Drawing; receiving; deducing; communicating; diverting or turning into another channel.
DERM, n. [Gr. δερμα, skin.]
The organized tegument, or natural covering of an animal.
DERM'AL, a. [Gr. δερμα, skin.]
Pertaining to skin; consisting of skin. – Fleming.
DER-MAT'IC, or DERM'A-TINE, a.
Pertaining to the skin.
DERM'A-TOID, a.
Like the skin, without being skin.
One who discourses on the skin and its diseases.