dietine 
Ladislaus . . . called an assembly of prelates, barons, 
and military gentlemen, in their respective provinces, in 
order to obtain an additional tribute. These provincial 
assemblies gave birth to the dietines ; they now . . . only 
elect the nuncios or representatives for the diet. 
J. Adams, Works, IV. 363. 
Poland was torn by factions ; its diets and dietines were 
hotbeds of intrigue. Edinburgh Rev., CLXVI. 623. 
dieting (di'e-ting), . [Verbal n. of diet 1 , ?'.] 
1. The act of eating or taking nourishment. 
You know not how delicate the imagination becomes by 
dieting with antiquity day after day. 
Shelley, in Dowden, II. 256. 
2. The act or process of subjecting to a diet 
or regimen. 
It's the dieting and rubbing of the race-horse that makes 
him thin as a flash, that he may be as swift too. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 333. 
dietist (di'e-tist), n. [< diefl- + -ist.] One 
skilled in diet. Quarterly Bee. 
dietitian (dl-e-tish'an), n. [< diefl- + -itian for 
-ician.] Same as dietist. Quarterly Rev. [Rare.] 
diet-kitchen (dl'et-kich"en), n. An establish- 
ment, usually connected with a dispensary or 
with the outdoor department of a hospital, for 
preparing and dispensing suitable diet for in- 
valids, especially among the poor. 
dietrichite (de'trich-it), n. [After the French 
mineralogist Dietrich (1748-93).] A hydrous 
sulphate of aluminium, zinc, and iron, occur- 
ring as a recent formation at Felso-Banya in 
Hungary. 
Dieu et mon droit (die a mfiii drwo). [F. : Dieu, 
< L. deus, a god; et, < L. et, and; mon, < L. 
meus, mine, < me, me; droit, < ML. directum, 
right: see deity, me, direct, adroit.] Literally, 
" God and my right," the watchword of Rich- 
ard I. of England at the battle of Gisors in 1195, 
and adopted as the motto on the royal arms of 
England. 
dieu-gardet, n. [F. Dieu garde, God keep or 
save (you); as a noun, "uii dieu-gard, a salu- 
tation, or a God save you" (Cotgrave): Dieu, 
God; garder, keep, save, guard: see deity and 
guard.] A form of salutation or asseveration. 
And in this faith desires to be numbred in your familie, 
so in your studies to attend, as your least becke may be 
his dieugarde. Fiona, It. Diet., Ep. Ded. 
His master Harding could not produce so much as a 
probability of any vow anciently required or undertaken, 
whether by beck or Dieu-gard. Ep. Hall, Works, IX. 278. 
diewt, n. An obsolete spelling of due 1 . 
die-work (dl'werk), n. Surface ornamentation 
of metal by means of dies, upon which the 
metal is forced. The process is employed for metal in 
either a heated or a cold state ; when executed upon cold 
metal, the work usually requires chasing to complete it. 
diezeugmenon (di-e-zug'me-non), n. [Gr. <5<f- 
t^tvynivav: see diazeuctic.] In Gr. music, the 
lower tetraehord of the upper octave in the two- 
octave or greater perfect system. 
dif-. 1. The assimilated form of dis- before /. 
See dis-. 2f. A form of de- before f. Seede-. 
diffamet, v. and n. An obsolete (Middle Eng- 
lish) form of defame. 
diffamed (di-famd'),p. a. [Pp. of diffame, v.] 
In her. : (a) Same as defamed, (b) Turned to- 
ward the sinister : said of an animal, especially 
a beast of prey, used as a bearing. [Rare.] 
diffarreation (di-far-e-a'shon), n. [< LL. diffar- 
reatio(n-), < L. dis-, apart, "+ farreatio(n-), for 
the more common L. confarreatio(n-), the use 
of spelt-cake in the marriage ceremony: see 
confarreation.~] The parting of a cake made of 
spelt : a ceremony among the Romans at the 
divorce of man and wife. See confarreation. 
diffencet, An obsolete form of defense. 
diffendt, v. An obsolete form of defend. 
differ (dif'er), . [< ME. differen = F. differer 
= Sp. diferir = Pg. differir = It. differire, < L. 
differre, carry apart, put off, defer (intr. differ, 
be different), < dis-, apart, 4- ferre= E. bear 1 ; 
of. Gr. dtaUpetv, carry apart, differ (> dvd^opof, 
different, > ult. E. adiaphorous, etc., diaphor- 
ite), < 6ia, through, apart, + Qepeiv = L. ferrc 
= E. bearl. Cf. defer%, a doublet of differ.] 
I. intrans. 1. To be unlike, dissimilar, dis- 
tinct, or various in nature, condition, form, or 
qualities : used absolutely or with from : as, 
the two things differ greatly ; men differ from 
brutes; a statue differs from a picture; wisdom 
differs from cunning. 
One star difereth from another star in glory. 
1 Cor. xv. 41. 
The courts of two countries do not so much differ from 
one another, as the court and city in their peculiar ways of 
life and conversation. Addison, Coffee House Politicians. 
Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men 
differ more widely from one another than they do from 
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the Apes ; whilst the lowest Apes differ as much, in pro- 
portion, from the highest, as the latter does .from Man. 
Huxley, Man's Place in Nature, p. 95. 
In all that I have seen, my main feeling is one of won- 
der how little the younger England differs from the elder. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 170. 
2. To disagree ; be of a contrary opinion ; dis- 
sent ; be at variance ; vary in opinion or action : 
used absolutely or with from or with : as, they 
differ in their methods; he differs from other 
writers on the subject. 
If the honourable gentleman differs with me on that 
subject, I differ as heartily ittith him. Canning. 
The first thing that tests a boy's courage is to dare to 
differ from, his father. W. Phillips, Speeches, p. 247. 
They agree as to the object of existence ; they differ as 
to the method of reaching it. 
J. F. Clarke, Ten Great Religions, i. 4. 
3. To express disagreement or dissent by word 
of mouth ; come into antagonism ; dispute ; con- 
tend: followed by with. 
We'll never differ with a crowded pit. Howe. 
To differ by the whole of being, in logic, to have no 
essential resemblance, as an orange differs from virtue. 
= Syn. 1. To vary. 
II. trans. 1. To cause to be different or un- 
like. [Rare.] 
Something 'tis that differs me and thee. Cowley. 
2. To cause difference or dispute between ; di- 
vide. Jamieson. [Scotch.] 
If Maister Angis and her mak it up, I'se ne'er be the 
man to differ them. Saxon and Gael, I. 79. 
3f. To put off; defer. See defer^. 
differ (dif'er), n. [< differ, v.] Difference. 
[Scotch.] 
Ye see your state wi' theirs compared, 
An' shudder at the niffer [exchange] ; 
But cast a moment's fair regard 
What mak's the mighty differ. 
Curtis, Address to the Unco Guid. 
difference (dif'e-rens), n. [< ME. difference, < 
OF. difference, F. "difference = Sp. diferenda = 
Pg. differen^ a = It. (obs.) differentia, differenza, 
< L. differentia, difference, < differen(t-)s, ppr., 
different: see different.] 1. The condition or 
relation of being other or different; the rela- 
tion of non-identity; also, the relation between 
things unlike ; dissimilarity in general. 
Not like to like, but like in difference. 
Tennyson, Princess, vii. 
2. Any special mode of non-identity; a rela- 
tion which can subsist only between different 
things; also, a special relation involving un- 
likeness ; a particular dissimilarity. 
There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. 
Rom. x. 12. 
But at last it is acknowledged by the Men who love to 
be called the Men of wit in this Age of ours that there is 
a God and Providence, a future state, and the differences 
of good and evil. Stillinyfleet, Sermons, I. ill. 
Strange all this difference should be 
'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee. 
Byrom, Feuds between Handel and Buononcini. 
3. A character which one thing or kind of things 
has and another has not. 
Difference is the same that is spoken of many, which 
differ in fourme and kinde, when the question is asked, 
What maner of thing it is, as when we saie : What maner 
of thing is man ? We must auuswere : he is endued with 
reason : If the question be asked, what a man is : We must 
aunswere by his Genus, or generall woorde, he is a living 
creature. If the question be asked, what maner of thing 
a Beast is? We maie saie: He is without the gift of rea- 
son. Every difference that is moste propre to every thing, 
is naturally and substaucially joigned to the kinde which 
is comprehended under the generall woorde. 
Sir T. Wilson, Rule of Reason (1531). 
4. Controversy, or ground of controversy; a 
dispute ; a quarrel. 
loch. What was the difference > 
French. I think 'twas a contention in public. 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 5. 
I would not, for more wealth than I enjoy, 
He should perceive you raging ; he did hear 
You were at difference now, which hasten 'd him. 
Beau. andFl., Maid's Tragedy, i. 2. 
A right understanding of some few things, in difference 
amongst the sincere and godly, was procured. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 198. 
I am myself a good deal ruffled by a difference I have 
had with Julia. Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 3. 
5f. An evidence or a mark of distinction. 
An absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differ- 
ences. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 
6. The act of distinguishing; discrimination; 
distinction. 
We make some things necessary, some things accessary 
and appendent only : . . . our Lord and Saviour himself 
doth make that difference. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 3. 
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean. 
Lev. xi. 47. 
7. In math. : (a) The quantity by which one 
quantity differs from another; the remainder 
difference 
of a sum or quantity after a lesser sum or 
quantity is subtracted, (b) The increment of a 
function produced by increasing the variable 
by unity. The operation of taking the difference in 
this sense is denoted by the letter A. The second differ- 
erne, A2, is the difference of the function that represents 
the difference of another. So third, fourth, etc., difference. 
The following table is an example : 
n3 Al3 A23 A3n3 
1 1 7 12 6 
2 8 19 18 8 
3 27 37 24 8. 
4 64 61 80 
5 125 91 
6 218 
8. In lier., a bearing used to discriminate be- 
tween shields or achievements of arms, as of 
brothers who inherit an equal right to the pa- 
ternal coat. The most common form of dif- 
ferencing is cadency ; another is the baston. 
You must wear your rue with a difference. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 5. 
9. On the exchanges, the amount of variation 
between the price at which it is agreed to sell 
and deliver a thing at a fixed time and the 
market-price of the thing when that time ar- 
rives. In wagering contracts, payment of the 
difference is expected and accepted in lieu of 
actual delivery. 10f. A part or division. 
There bee of times three differences : the first from the 
creation of man to the Floud or Deluge, . . . the second 
from the Moud to the first Olymplas, etc. 
Holland, tr. of Camden's Brit., p. 34. 
[Difference is often followed by a prepositional phrase in- 
dicating the things or persons that differ. The preposi- 
tion is usually between or among, or /rom, but sometimes 
also to (after the formula different to : see remarks under 
different). 
What serious difference is there in this behavior [of 
plants] (o that of the lower animals, the curious creatures 
of sea life which are hardly one thing or the other? 
Harper's Weekly, March 1, 1884, p. 143.] 
Accidental difference, in Ionic, a difference in respect 
to some accident. Actual difference, in metajih., one 
concerning what actually takes place. Ascensional dif- 
ferencet. See ascensional. Calculus of finite differ- 
ences. Hee calculus. Descensional difference!. See 
descensimud. Difference of potentials, <>r potential 
difference, in elect., the difference in degree of electri- 
fication of two bodies, or parts of the same body, which 
produces or tends to produce a flow of electricity or an 
electrical current between them. See potential. Differ- 
ence-tone. See tonr. Equation of differences. See 
equation. First difference. () In logic, the most fun- 
damental difference, (b) In math., the result of perform- 
ing the operation of taking the difference once. Individ- 
ual difference. Same as numerical difference (b). 
The many slight differences which frequently appear in 
the offspring from the same parents, or which may be 
presumed to have thus arisen, from being frequently ob- 
served in the individuals of the same species inhabiting 
the same confined locality, may be called individual dif- 
ferences. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 63. 
Inverse difference, in math., the sum of all the values of 
a function, for all the discrete values of the variable less 
than the actual value. Mixed differences, differences 
partly finite and partly infinitesimal (differentials). See 
equation. Numerical difference, (a) A difference of 
numbers, as between two assemblages of persons or tilings, 
two reckonings, or the like, (b) A difference between in- 
dividuals of the same species ; a character possessed by 
one individual and not by the others of the same species. 
Also frequently called individual, individuant, or singu- 
lar difference. Partial difference, in moth,, the incre- 
ment of a function of two variables which would result 
from increasing one of them by unity. Specific differ- 
ence, in logic, a character which, added to the genus, 
makes the definition of the species. Also called essential, 
divisive, completive, or constitutive difference. to make 
a difference, to alter a case ; matter, or be material to a 
case : as, that makes a great difference ; it makes no differ- 
ence what you say. 
If he miss the mark, it makes no difference whether he 
have taken aim too high or too low. 
Macaulay, Athenian Orators. 
Virtual difference, a difference in respect to what would 
happen under certain contingencies. Thus, one egg and 
another, though they appear to have no actual differences, 
may have virtual differences, in that one will hatch a male 
and the other a female. = Syn. 1 and 2. Difference, Distinc- 
tion, Diversity, Dissimilarity, Disparity, Disagreement, 
Variance, Discrimination, contrariety, dissimilitude, va- 
riety. The first five words express the fact of unlikeness ; 
difference and distinction apply also to that wherein the 
unlikeness lies, and dixcriiiii/iation to the act of making or 
marking a difference, and to the faculty of discerning dif- 
ferences. (See ditcernmeut.) Distinction applies also to thr 
eminence conferred on account of difference. Difference 
is the most general, applying to things small or great, in- 
ternal or external. Distinction is generally, but not al- 
ways, external, and generally marks delicate differences : 
as, the dittinction between two words that are almost sy. 
nonymous. Diversity, by its derivation, is a great or radi- 
cal difference, equal to going ill opposite directions. //.,- 
similarity is unlikeness, generally in large degree or es- 
sential points. Disparity is Inequality, generally in rank 
or age. Disagreement and variance are weak words by 
their original meaning, but through euphemistic use have 
come to stand for dissimilarity <>f opinion of almost any 
degree, and for thr resulting alienation of feeling, or even 
dissension and strife. 
The sub-kingdom Annnlosa shows us an immense differ- 
ence between the slow crawling of worms and quick Might 
of insects. //. Sj'>icrr, I'rin. of Psychol., 1. 
