Dictionary: DE-TORT'ING – DE-TRUNC'A-TION

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DE-TORT'ING, ppr.

Wresting; perverting.

DE-TOR'TION, n.

A turning or wresting; perversion.

DE-TOUR', n. [Fr.]

A turning; a circuitous way.

DE-TRACT', v.t. [L. detractum; detrecto; detraho; de and traho, to draw; Sp. detractar; It. detrarre; Fr. detracter. See Draw and Drag.]

  1. Literally, to draw from. Hence, to take away from reputation or merit, through envy, malice or other motive; hence, to detract from, is to lessen or depreciate reputation or worth; to derogate from. Never circulate reports that detract from the reputation or honor of your neighbor, without obvious necessity to justify the act. – Anon.
  2. To take away; to withdraw, in a literal sense. – Wotton. Boyle.

DE-TRACT'ING-LY, adv.

In a detracting manner.

DE-TRAC'TION, n. [L. detractio.]

The act of taking something from the reputation or worth of another, with the view to lessen him in estimation; censure; a lessening of worth; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice. Detraction may consist in representing merit as less than it really is; or in the imputation of faults, vices or crimes, which impair reputation; and if such imputation is false, it is slander or defamation.

DE-TRAC'TIOUS, a.

Containing detraction; lessening reputation. [Not in use.]

DE-TRAC'TIVE, a.

Having the quality or tendency to lessen the worth or estimation.

DE-TRAC'TOR, n.

One who takes away or impairs the reputation of another injuriously; one who attempts to lessen the worth or honor of another.

DE-TRACT'O-RY, a.

Derogatory; defamatory by denial of desert; with from. – Johnson. Boyle.

DE-TRACT'RESS, n.

A female detractor; a censorious woman.

DE-TRECT', v.t. [L. detrecto.]

To refuse. [Not in use.] – Fotherby.

DET'RI-MENT, n. [L. detrimentum. Qu. deter, worse, or detero, detritum, worn off.]

Loss; damage; injury; mischief; harm; diminution. We speak of detriment to interest, property, religion, morals, reputation, and to land or buildings. It is a word of very general application.

DET-RI-MENT'AL, a.

Injurious; hurtful; causing loss or damage. A spirit of speculation may be detrimental to regular commerce. – Anon.

DET'RI-MENT-ED, a.

Injured; made worse.

DE-TRI'TAL, a.

Pertaining to detritus.

DE-TRI'TION, n. [L. detero.]

A wearing off. – Stevens.

DE-TRI'TUS, n. [L. detritus, worn; detero, to wear.]

In geology, a mass of substances worn off or detached from solid bodies by attrition; as, diluvial detritus. Disintegrated materials of rocks. – Buckland.

DE-TRUDE', v.t. [L. detrudo; de and trudo, to thrust.]

To thrust down; to push down with force. Locke. Thomson.

DE-TRUD'ED, pp.

Thrust or forced down.

DE-TRUD'ING, ppr.

Thrusting or forcing down.

DE-TRUNC'ATE, v.t. [L. detrunco; de and trunco, to cut shorter; truncus, cut short; Fr. trancher; Arm. troucha, or traincha. See Trench.]

To cut off; to lop; to shorten by cutting.

DE-TRUNC'A-TED, pp.

Cut off; shortened.

DE-TRUNC'A-TING, ppr.

Cutting or lopping off.

DE-TRUNC'A-TION, n.

The act of cutting off.