Dictionary: DE-TEST'A-BLE – DE-TORT'ED

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DE-TEST'A-BLE, a.

Extremely hateful; abominable; very odious; deserving abhorrence. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things. – Ezek. v.

DE-TEST'A-BLE-NESS, n.

Extreme hatefulness.

DE-TEST'A-BLY, adv.

Very hatefully; abominably.

DE-TEST'A-TION, n.

Extreme hatred; abhorrence; with of. The good man entertains uniformly a detestation of sin.

DE-TEST'ED, pp.

Hated extremely; abhorred.

DE-TEST'ER, n.

One who abhors.

DE-TEST'ING, ppr.

Hating extremely; abhorring; abominating.

DE-THRONE', v.t. [Fr. detrôner; Sp. destronar; It. stronare; de and throne, L. thronus.]

  1. To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of royal authority and dignity.
  2. To divest of rule or power, or of supreme power. The Protector was dethroned. – Hume.

DE-THRON'ED, pp.

Removed from a throne; deposed.

DE-THRONE'MENT, n.

Removal from a throne; deposition of a king, emperor or prince.

DE-THRON'ER, n.

One who dethrones.

DE-THRON'ING, pp.

Driving from a throne; depriving of regal power.

DET'I-NUE, n. [Fr. detenu, detained; detenir, to detain.]

In law, a writ of detinue is one that lies against him who wrongfully detains goods or chattels delivered to him, or in his possession. This writ lies for a thing certain and valuable, as for a horse, cow, sheep, plate, cloth, &c., to recover the thing itself or damages for the detainer. – Blackstone.

DET'O-NATE, v.i.

To explode; to burn with a sudden report. Niter detonates with sulphur.

DET'O-NATE, v.t. [L. detono; de and tono, to thunder.]

In chimistry, to cause to explode; to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

DET'O-NA-TED, pp.

Exploded; burnt with explosion.

DET'O-NA-TING, ppr.

Exploding; inflaming with a sudden report.

DET-O-NA'TION, n.

An explosion or sudden report made by the inflammation of certain combustible bodies, as fulminating gold. Detonation is not decrepitation.

DET-O-NI-ZA'TION, n.

The act of exploding, as certain combustible bodies.

DET'O-NIZE, v.i.

To explode; to burn with a sudden report. This precipitate … detonizes with a considerable noise. – Fourcroy.

DET'O-NIZE, v.t. [See Detonate.]

To cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to calcine with detonation.

DET'O-NIZ-ED, pp.

Exploded, as a combustible body.

DET'O-NIZ-ING, ppr.

Exploding with a sudden report.

DE-TORT', v.t. [L. detortus, of detorqueo; de and torqueo, to twist.]

To twist; to wrest; to pervert; to turn from the original or plain meaning. – Dryden.

DE-TORT'ED, pp.

Twisted; wrested; perverted.