Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.
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.]
- To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of royal authority and dignity.
- 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.