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murderous. —Time itfelf, under the deathful (hade of 
whofe wings all things wither, hath wafted that lively 
virtue of nature in man, and beafts, and plants. Raleigh. 
Thefe eyes behold 
Tlte deathful feene ; princes on princes roll’d. Pope, 
DEATH'LESS, adj. Immortal; never-dying; ever- 
lafting.—God hath only immortality, though angels and 
human fouls be deathlfs. Boyle. 
Faith and hope thernfelves (hall die. 
While deathlefs charity remains. Prior. 
DEATH'LIKE, adf Refembling death ; ftill; gloo¬ 
my; motionlefs ; placid; calm ; peaceful; undifturbed ; 
refembling either the horrors or the quietnefs of death ; 
On feas, on earth, and all that in them dwell, 
A deathlike quiet and deep lllence fell. Waller. 
Black melancholy (its,.and round her throws 
A deathlike (lumber, and a dread repofe. Pope. 
DEATH'MARKED, part. adj. Made famous by 
deaths.—The fearful pafiage of their dcathmark’d love. 
Shakefpeare. 
DEATHS'DOOR,yi A near approach to death ; the 
gates of death, - 7 rvXo!.i uHa. It is a low phrafe .—There was 
a poor young woman, that had brought herfelf even to 
death/door with grief for her fick hufband. VEf range. 
DEATHS'MAN, f. Executioner; hangman; headf- 
man ; he that executes the fentence of death.—As deathf- 
men you have rid this lweet young prince. Shakefpeare. 
DE ATH'WATCH,yi An infeft that makes a tinkling 
noife like that of a watch, and is fuperftitioufly imagined 
to prognofticate death.—The folemn dcathwatch click’d' 
the hour (he died. Gay. 
Mifers are muckworms, filkworms beaus. 
And deathwatches phyficians. Pope. 
It is an infeft belonging to the order of coleoptera, called 
■pulfator ; for the natural hillory of which fee Ptinus. 
To DJEAU'RATE, v. a. [_deau.ro, Lat.] To gild, or 
cover with gold. 
DEAURA'TION,/ The aft of gilding. 
DEBACCHA'TION,yi [deiacchatio, Lat.] A raging; 
a madnefs. 
DEBALPOUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the Malwa 
country ; twenty-one miles weft of Indove, and thirteen 
fouth of Ougein. 
DEBALPOUR', a.town of Hindooftan, and capital of 
a diftrict, in the country of Moultan, fituated on the 
great road from Delhi to Moultan : feventy miles fouth- 
eaft of Lahore, and 150 eaft of Moultan. 
To DEBA'R, v. a. To exclude ; to preclude ; to (hut 
out from any thing; to hinder.—Civility, intended to 
make us eafy, is employed in laying chains and fetters 
upon us, in debarring 11s of our willies, and in crofting our 
mod reafonable defires. Swift. 
Not fo ftriftly hath our Lord impos’d 
Labour, as to debar us when we need 
Refreftiment, whether food, or talk between, 
Food of the mind. Milton. 
To DEBA'RB, v. a. [from de and barba , Lat.] To de¬ 
prive of his beard. 
To DEBA'RK, v. a. [ debarquer , Fr.] To difembark. 
To DEBA'SE, v. a. To reduce from a higher to a 
lower (late.—Homer intended to teach, that pleafure and 
fenfuality debafe men into beafts. Broome. —To make mean; 
to fink into meannefs ; to make defpicable ; to degrade. 
•—A man of large pofiefiions has not leifure to conlider 
of every flight expence, and will not debafe himfelf to the 
management of every trifle. Dryden. 
Reftraining others, yet himfelf not free ; 
Made impotent by pow’r, debas’d by dignity. Dryden. 
To fink ; to vitiate with meannefs.—Hunting after argu¬ 
ments to make good one fide of a queftion, and wholly to 
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refufe thofe which favour the other, is fo far from giving 
truth its due value, that it wholly debafes it. Locke. —1 o 
adulterate ; to lefien in value by bafe admixtures.—He 
reformed the coin, which.was much adulterated and de- 
bafed in the times and troubles of king Stephen. Hale. 
Words fo debas'd and hard, no (tone 
Was hard enough to touch them on. Hudibras. 
DEB A'SEMENT, f. The aft of debafing or degrad¬ 
ing ; degradation.—It is a wretched debafement of that 
fprightly faculty, the tongue, thus to be made the inter¬ 
preter to a goat or boar. Government of the Tongue. 
DEBA'SER,yi He that debafes ; he that adulterates; 
lie that degrades another; he that finks the value-of 
things, or deftroys the dignity of perfons. 
DEBA'T-ABLE, adj. Difputable ; that which is, or 
may be, fubjeft to controversy. See Eatable, vol. ii. 
p. 795. —The French requefte'd, that the debatable ground, 
and tiie Scottifli lioftages, might be reftored to the Scots- 
Hayward. 
DEBA'TE,yi [debat, Fr.] A perfonal difpute ; a con¬ 
troverfy.—It is to difiufe a light over the underftanding, 
in our enquiries after truth, and not to furnifh the tongue 
with debate and controverfy. Watts. —A quarrel ; a coa¬ 
ted: : it is not now lift'd of hoflile conteft : 
’Tis thine to ruin realms, o’erturn a (late ; 
Betwixt the deareft friends to raife debate. Dryden. 
To DEBA'TE, v. a. [ debatre , Fr.] To controvert ; to 
difpute; to conteft.— Debate thy cauie with thy neigh¬ 
bour himfelf, and difeover not a fecret to another. Pro¬ 
verbs, xxv. 9. 
To DEBA'TE, v. n. To deliberate : 
Your fev’ral fuits 
Have been confider'd and debated on. . Shakefpeare. 
To difpute.—He prefents that great foul debating upon 
the fubjeft of life and death with his intimate friends. 
Tatler. —To fight.—With him in bloody armes they raftily 
did debate. Spcnfer. 
DEBA'TEKUL, adj. [Of perfons.] Quarrelfome ; 
contentious. [Of things.] Contefted ; occalioning quar¬ 
rels. 
DEBA'TEMENT,y. Controverfy; deliberation; 
Without debatement further, more or lefs, 
He ftiould the bearers put to fudden death. Shakefpeare , 
Fight.—He with Pyrrochles (liarpe debatement made. Sp, 
DEBA'TER,/. Adifputant; a controvertift; one who 
takes part in a debate.—It is only knowledge and expe¬ 
rience that can make a debater. Chef erf eld. 
To DEBAU'CH, v. a. [ dcjbauchcr , Fr. dcbacchari, Lat.] 
To corrupt; to vitiate.—A man mull have got his con- 
fcience thoroughly debauched and hardened, before he can 
arrive to tlie height of (in. South. —To corrupt with 
lewdnels : 
Here do you keep a hundred knights and fquires. 
Men fo diforder’d, fo debauch'd and bold, 
That this our court, infected with their manners, 
Shews like a riotous inn. Shakefpeare, 
To corrupt by intemperance.—No man’s reafon did ever 
diftate to him, that it is reafonable for him to debauch. 
himfelf by intemperance and brutifh fenfuall’ty; TUlolfon. 
DEBAU'CH, f. A fit of intemperance.—He will for 
fome time contain himfelf within the bounds of (obriety; 
till within a little while he recovers his former debauch, 
and is well again, and then his appetite returns. Calamy, 
Luxury; excels ; lewdnefs : 
The firft phyficians by debauch were made ; 
Excels began, and (loth fuftains, the trade. Dryden. 
DEBAUCHE'E,yi [from dejbauche, Fr.] A lecher; a 
drunkard ; a man given to intemperance.—Could we but 
prevail with the greateft debauchees amongft us to change 
their lives, we fhould find it no very hard matter to 
change their judgments. South. 
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