DEG 
that whereas before we bore the image of God, we now 
retain only the image of men. South .—Diminution, with 
refpecl to ftrength, efficacy, or value. [In painting.] 
A term made life of to exprefs the leffiening and render¬ 
ing confufed the appearance of diftant objects in a land- 
fcape, fo as they may appear there as they would do to 
an eye placed at that difiance from them. 
DEGR ADA'TION, /. in law, an ecclefiaftical cen- 
fure, whereby a clergyman is diverted of his holy orders. 
There are two forts of degrading, by the canon-law ; 
one fummary, by word only ; the other Jolann, by (trip¬ 
ping the party degraded of thofe ornaments and rights 
which are the enfigns of his degree. Degradation is 
otherwife called depoftion ; and in former times the de¬ 
grading of a clerk was no more than a difplacing or fuf- 
penfion from his office: but the canonifts have Since dif- 
tinguiflied between a depolition and a degradation; the 
one being now ufedasagreaterpunifhment than the other, 
becaufe the bifhop takes from the criminal all the badges 
of his Order, and afterwards delivers him to the Secular 
judge, where he cannot purge himfelf of the offence 
whereof he is convifted. 
There is likewife a degradation of a lord or a knight 
at common-law, when they are attainted of treufon ; as 
HU. i%Edzv. II. Andrew Harcla, Earl of Carliile, who 
was alfo a knight, was degraded, and when judgment of 
treafon was pronounced againft him, his Sword was broken 
over his head, and his fpurs hewn off his heels, &c. 
And there is a degrading by aft of parliament ; for by 
13 Car. II. c. 16, William lord Monfon, (ir Henry Mild- 
may, and others, were degraded from all titles ot. honour, 
dignities, and pre-eminencies, and none of them to bear 
or ufe the title of lord, knight, efquire, or gentleman, 
or any coat of arms for ever after. 
To DEGRA'DE, v.a. [degrader , Fr.] To put one 
from his degree ; to deprive him of his office, dignity, 
or title : 
He Ihould 
Be quite degraded, like a hedgeborn Twain 
That doth prefume to boaft of gentle blood. Shake/p. 
To leffen ; to diminifh the value of: 
Nor (halt thou, by descending to affume 
Man’s nature, leffen or degrade thine own. Milton. 
To reduce from a higher to a lower date, with refpeft to 
qualities: as, gold is degraded into Silver. 
To DE'GRAVATE, u.n. [Lat. de from, and gravis , 
heavy.] To make heavy, to burden. Scott. 
DEGRAVA'TION, f. [from degravatus, of degravo , 
Lat.] The act of making heavy. 
DEGR E'E, /. [ deg re, Fr. from gradus, Lat.] Quality; 
rank; ftation ; place of dignity.—Surely men of low degree 
are vanity, and men of high degree are a lye: to be laid 
in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 
PJalm lxii. 9. 
But is no rank, no rtation, no degree, 
From this contagious taint of forrow free f Prior. 
The comparative date and condition in which a thing is. 
•—The book of Wifdom noteth degrees of idolatry, mak¬ 
ing that of worrtiipping petty and vile idols more grofs 
than fun ply the worlhipping of the creature. Bacon. 
As if there were degrees in infinite, 
And Iieav’n itfelf had rather want perfeftion 
Than punilh to excefs. Dryden. 
A rtep or preparation to any thing.—-Her fil'd; degree was 
by fetting forth her beauties, truly in nature not to be 
mifliked, but as much advanced to the eye, as abafed to 
the judgment, by art. Sidney. —Order of lineage ; defeent 
of family : 
King Latinus, in the third degree, 
Had Saturn author of his family. Dryden. 
Orders or claffes •—The feveral degrees of angels may 
probably have larger views, and be endowed with capa- 
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cities able to fet before them, as in one picture, all their 
part knowledge at once. Locke .—Meafure; proportion. 
—If all the parts are equally heard as loud as one ano¬ 
ther, they will rtuivyou to that degree, that you will fancy 
your ears were torn in pieces. Dryden. —[I11 geometry.] 
The three hundred and rtxtieth part of the circumference 
of a circle; for every circle is confidcred as divided into 
three hundred and Sixty parts, called degrees ; which are 
marked by a fmali 0 near the top of the figure ; thus.45 0 
is forty-five degrees. The degree is Subdivided into fixty 
fmaller parts, called minutes, meaning jirjl minutes; the 
minute into Sixty others, called feconds ; the Second into 
fixty thirds ; &c. Thus 45 0 12' zof are forty-five degrees, 
twelve minutes, twenty feconds. [In arithmetic.] A 
degree confifts of three figures, viz. of three places, com¬ 
prehending units, tens, and hundreds; fo three hundred 
and fixty-five is a degree. Cocker. —The divifion of the 
lines upon feveral forts of mathematical inftruments. 
[In mulie.] The intervals of founds, which areufually 
marked by little lines. [In philolophy.] The vehemence 
or flacknefs of the hot or cold quality.—The fecond, 
third, and fourth, degrees of heat are more eafily intro¬ 
duced than the firrt : every one is both a preparative and 
a ftep to the next. South. 
By DEGRE'ES, adv. Gradually ; by little and little. 
—A perfon who is addifted to play or gaming, though 
he took but little delight in it at firrt, by degrees contrails 
a ftrong inclination towards it. Spectator. 
Exulting in triumph now fwell the bold notes; 
In broken air, trembling, the wild mufick floats; 
Till, by degrees remote and Small, 
The (trains decay, 
And melt away, 
In a dying, dying fall. Pope . 
DEGUST A'TION, f. [degujlptio, Lat.] A tailing. 
DEH BOUZOUR', a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Irak : eighty miles north-north-wert of Ifpahan. 
DEH COU'CHEK, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Irak: forty-eight miles north-weft of Ifpahan. 
DE'H AM, atown of Arabia, in the country of Yemen : 
twenty-eight miles weft.north-weft of Sana. 
DEH'CHAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman : Seventy miles fouth-weft of Sirgian. 
DEH'DANEH, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Chorafan: fixty miles north-eaft of Herat. 
DE'Hl COUH, or Dehaku, a town of Perfia, in the 
province of Lariftan: nine miles weft of Lar. 
DE'Hl DOMDE, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Farfiftan: one hundred miles fouth-fouth-eaft ot Schiras. 
DE'Hl GHER'DOU, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Farfiftan: one hundred miles north of Schiras. 
DE'Hl KOURD, a town of Perfia, in 1 he province 
of Lariftan: twenty-one miles north-weft of Lar. 
DEHIS'CENT, part. adj. [from dekij'co, to gape.] 
Gaping or opening wide. In botany, it is applied to the 
burfting of the pod, for the discharge of the feed. 
DEH'LI. See Delhi. 
DEH'NE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Cho¬ 
rafan : 10S miles eaft of Mefchid. 
DEHO'RS, /; [French.] The outfide of a thing ; 
a feparate, or outwork in fortification. 
DEHO'RS, prep. Foreign to; out of.—Caufes of grant¬ 
ing a new trial are at prefent wholly extrinfic, atifing from 
matter foreign to or dehors the record. Blackjlone. 
To DEHO'RT, v.a. \_dehorter, Lat.] To diffuade; to 
advife to the contrary.— ihe apoftles vehemently dehort 
us from unbelief. Ward. 
DEHORT A'TION, f. [from deliortor, Lat.] Diffua- 
fion ; a counselling to the contrary; advice againft Some¬ 
thing.—The author of this epiftle, and the reft of the 
apoftles, do every where vehemently and earneftly dehort 
from unbelief: did they never read tiiefe dchorlations? Ward. 
DEHOR'TATORY, adj. [from deho.rtpr, Lat.] Be¬ 
longing to diiTuafion. 
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