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DE'DTCATE, adj. Confecrate; devote; dedicated; 
appropriate : 
Pray’rs from preferved fouls, 
Fi om fading maids, whofe names are dedicate 
To nothing temporal. Shahefptare. 
DEDICATION,/. Idedicatio, Lat.] The aft of de¬ 
dicating to any being or purpofe ; co-nfecration ; folemu 
appropriation.—Among public folemnities there is none 
fo glorious as that under the reign of king Solomon, at 
the dedication of the temple. Addifon. —An addrefs to a 
patron, ufually placed at the beginning of a book : 
Proud as Apollo on his forked hill, 
Sat full-blown Bufo, puff’d by ev’ry quill ; 
Fed by foft dedication all day long, 
Horace and he went hand in hand in fong. Pope. 
DEDTCA'TION-DAY, / \_fcfium dedication^ , Lat.] 
The feaff of dedication of churches, or rather the feaft- 
day of the faint and patron of a church ; which was ce¬ 
lebrated not only by the inhabitants of a place, but by 
thofe of all the neighbouring hamlets, who ufually came 
thither; and Inch aflemblies were allowed as lawful. It 
was ufual for the people to feaff and drink on thofe oc- 
cafions : and in many parts of England they ftill meet 
every year in villages for this purpofe, which days are 
called revels or wakes. Cowel. 
DEDICATOR,/ One who inferibes his work to a 
patron, often with compliment and fervility : 
Leave dang’rous truths to unfuccefsful latires, 
And flattery to fulfome dedicators. Pope. 
DE'DICATORY, adj. Compofing a dedication ; com- 
plimental ; adulatory.—Thus I fhould begin my epiffle, 
if it were a dedicatory one ; but it is a friendly letter. Pope. 
DEDIGNATION, f. Difdaining, contemning. 
DE'DIMUS POTESTA'TEM, / A writ or corn- 
million given to one or more private perfons, for the 
fpeeding fome aft appertaining to a judge or court. And 
it is granted moft commonly upon fuggeftion, that the 
party who is to do fomething before a judge, or in court, 
is.fo weak that he cannot travel; as where a perfon lives 
in the country, to take an anfw’er in chancery; to exa¬ 
mine witnefles- in a caufe depending in that court; to levy 
a fine in the common-pleas, &c. On putting gentlemen 
into the commiffion of the peace, there Cometh a writ of 
Jedimui pHeJiatm our of chancery, directed to fome ancient 
j uff ice, to take the oaths of thofe who are newly inferted. 
DEDITION,/ [deditio, Lat.] The aft of yielding up 
any thing ; furrendry.—It was not a complete conqueft, 
but rather a dedition upon terms and capitulations agreed 
between the conqueror and the conquered. Hale. 
DK'DOLENCY,/ [from dedclere, Lat. not to grieve.] 
A ffate of infallibility of pain, or contrition. 
To DEDIJ'CE, v. a. \_deduco, Lat.] To draw in a re¬ 
gular connefted feries, from one time or one event to 
another.—I will deduce him from His cradle, through the 
deep and lubric waves of ffate and court, till he w’as 
fwallowed in the gulph of fatality. Wotton. 
O goddefs, fay, (hall I deduce my rhimes 
From the dire nation in its early times ? Pope. 
To form a regular chain of confequential propofitions.— 
Reafon is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown 
truths from principles already known. Locke. —To lay 
down in regular order, fo as that the following ikall na¬ 
turally rife from the foregoing : 
Lend me your fong, ye nightingales ! oh pour 
The mazy-running foul of melody 
Into my varied verfe! while I deduce , 
From the firft note the hollow cuckoo fings, 
The fymphony of fpring. Tkomfon. 
DEDU'CEMENT, / The thing deduced; the col¬ 
lection of reafon; confequential propofition.—Praifie and 
prayer are his due worlhip, and the reft of thole deduce. 
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ments which I am confident are the remote effefts of reve¬ 
lation. D'yden. 
DEDU'CIBLE, adj. Colleftible by reafon; confe- 
quential; difcoverable from principles laid down.—So far, 
therefore, as eonfcience reports any thing agreeable to or 
deducible. from thefe, it is to be hearkened to. South. —All 
properties of a triangle depend on, and ar z deducible from, 
the complex'idea of three lines, including a (pace. Locke. 
DEDLi'CIVE, adj. Performing the aCt of deduction. 
To DEDU'CT, v. a. [dedveo , Lat.] To fubftraft ; to 
take away’; to cut otf; to defalcate.—We deduB from the 
computation of our years that part of our time which is 
fpent in incogitancy of infancy. Norris. —To feparate ; to 
difpart; to divide. Not in ufe : 
Having yet, in his deduBcd fpright, 
Some fparks remaining of that heavenly,fire. Spcnfcr. 
DEDUCTION,/ \_deduBio, Lat.] Confequential col¬ 
lection; confequence ; propofition drawn from principles 
premifed.—Set before you the moral law of God, with 
fuch deduHions from it as our Saviour hath drawn, or 
our own reafon, well informed, can make. Duppa. —That 
by diverfity of motions we fhould fpell out things not 
refembied by them, we muff attribute to fome fecret 
dedv.Bion ; but what this deduction fhould be, or by what 
mediums this knowledge is advanced, is as dark as igno¬ 
rance. Glanvi/le. —That which is dedufted ; defalcation: 
Bring then thefe bleffings to a ftrift account ; 
Make fair deductions ■, fee to what they mount. Pope. 
DEDU'CTIVE, adj. Deducible ; that which is or 
may be deduced from a pofition premifed.—All knotv- 
ledge of caufes is deduBivc ; for we know none by fimple 
intuition, but through the mediation of their eftefts. 
Glanvil/e. 
DEDUCTIVELY, adv. Confequentially ; by regular 
deduction ; by a regular train of ratiocination.—There is 
fcarcely a popular error palfant in our days, which is not 
either direftly exprefled, or dcduElively contained, in this 
work. Brown. 
DEE (John), fon of Rowland Dee, gentleman fewer 
to Henry VIII. and grandfon of Bedo of Dee, ftandard- 
bearer to lord de Ferrars at the battle of Tournay; it 
any credit is to be given to his pedigree in the Britifh 
mufeum, drawn up by himfelf, he was defeended in a 
diredt line from Tudor the Great. His father was im- 
prifoned in the Tow’er in the year 1553. His mother, 
Joanna Dee, lived at Mortlake as early as the year 1568. 
The greater part of the following account, except where 
other authorities are quoted, is taken from the manu- 
feript narrative of his life, which he read to the com- 
miflioners at his houfe at Mortlake. 
John Dee was born at London in 1527. At the age of 
fifteen lie went to the univerfity of Cambridge, where he 
applied himfelf to his ftudies with fuch diligence, that 
he allowed only four hours for deep, and two for His 
meals and lecreation. In 1547 he went abroad to con- 
verfe with, learned men, particularly mathematicians; 
and on his return the enfuing year, was elefted fellow of 
Trinity-college, and made under-reader of the Greek 
language. He went to the continent again foon after¬ 
wards; and, being then only twenty-three years of age, 
read public leftures at Paris upon the elements of Euclid 
to crowded audiences, and was vifited by perfons of the 
higheft rank, who were anxious to become his pupils. 
In 1553, Edward VI. took him under his patronage, al¬ 
lowed him a penfion, and gave him the reftories of 
Upton-upon-Severn in Worcefterlhire, and Long Lednain 
in Lincolnfhire. About this time he w’as offered a hand, 
fome falary for reading leftures upon natural philofophy 
at Oxford. In queen Mary’s reign he was out of favour; 
and, being fufpefted of treafonable defigns, was com¬ 
mitted to the cuitody of biffiop Bonner, but efcaped 
better than his fellow-prifoner Green, who fuffered at 
the (lake. Queen Elizabeth, upon her acceffion to the 
throne, immediately took Dee under her patronage, and. 
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