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DEHOR'TER, f. A difluader; an advifer to the 
contrary. 
DEHTIEZ', a town of Hungary : fifteen miles north- 
weft of Leopoldftadt. 
DE'I JUDI'CIU-M, f. the old Saxon trial by ordeal 
was fo called ; becaufe they thought it an appeal to God, 
for the juftice of a caufe, and verily believed that the 
decifion was according to the will and pleafure of divine 
Providence. See title Ordeal. 
DEJ ANI'R A, infabuloushiftory, a daughter of Gineus, 
king of Aitolia. Her beauty procured her many admirers, 
and Iter father promifed to give her in marriage to him 
only who proved to be the ftrongeftof all his competitors. 
Hercules obtained the prize, and married Dejanira, by 
whom he had three children, the moll known cf whom is 
Hylius. As Dejanira was once travelling with her huf- 
band, they were flopped by the fwollen ftreamsof theEve- 
nus, and the centaur Nefliis offered Hercules to convey her 
fafe to the oppofite fliore. The hero confented; but no 
fooner had Neffus gained the bank, than he attempted to 
offer violence to Dejanira, and to carry her away in the 
fight of her hufband. Hercules, upon this, aimed, from 
the other fliore, a poifoned arrow at the feducer, and mor¬ 
tally wounded him. Neffus, as he expired, wifhed to 
avenge his death upon his murderer ; and he gave Deja¬ 
nira his tunic, which was covered with blood, poifoned 
and infedted by the arrow, obferving, that it had the 
power of reclaiming a hufband from unlawful loves. 
Dejanira accepted the prefent; and when Hercules proved 
faithlefs to her bed, fhe fent him the centaur’s tunic, 
which inftantly caufed Iris death. Dejanira was fo dif- 
confolate at the death of her hufband, which fhe had ig¬ 
norantly occafioned, that fhe deftroyed herfelf. Ovid. 
DE'ICIDE,yi [Deus and cade, Lat.] The murder of 
God; the act of killing God. It is only ufed in fpeaking 
of the death of our blefted Saviour : 
Explaining how Perfeftion fuffer’d pain, 
Almighty languifh’d, and Eternal died ; 
How by her patient vidtor Death was (lain, 
And earth profan’d, yet blefs’d, with deicide! Prior. 
DEIDA'MIA, a daughter of Lycomedes, king of 
Scyros. She bore a fon called Pyrrhus, or Neoptolemus, 
to Achilles, who was difguifed at her father’s court in 
women’s cloaths, under the name of Pyrrha. Apollodorus. 
A daughter of Pyrrhus, killed by the Epirots. Polyan. 
A daughter of Adraftus, king of Argos, called alfo Hip- 
podamia. 
7 'oDEJEC'T, v.a. [dejicio, Lat.] To call down; to 
afflidl; to grieve ; to deprefs ; to fink; to difeourage; 
to crufh.—I am dejcdlcd ; ignorance itfelf is a plummet 
over me. Shakefpcare. 
Nor think to die dejetts my lofty mind ; 
All that I dread is leaving you behind ! Pope. 
To change the form with grief; to make to look fad : 
Eneas here beheld, of form divine, 
A godlike youth in glitt’ring armour ftiine, 
With great Marcellus keeping equal pace, 
But gloomy were his eyes, dejedled was his face. Dryd. 
DEJE'CT, adj. [dejedtus, Lat.] Caft down ; afflidted; 
low-fpirited : 
I am of ladies moft dejeEl and wretched, 
That fuck’d the honey of his mufic vows. Shakefp. 
DEJECTE'D, part. Cut dow-n, depreffed, afSidied, 
made fad. 
DEtJECTE'DLY, adv. In a dejedted manner; fadly; 
heavily.—No man in thatpaflion doth look ftrongly, but 
dejcdledly: and that repulfion from the eyes diverteth the 
fpirits, and gives heat more to the ears, and the parts by 
them. Bacon. 
DEJECTE'DNESS, f. Theftateof being caft down ; 
a lownefs of fpirits. 
DEJ KC'TION, f. [ dejcHion, Fr. from dcjeElio, Lat.] 
Lownefs of fpirits - meiancholy ; deprelfion of mind.— 
Deferted and aftoniflted, he finks into utter dcjeElion ; and 
even hope itfelf is fwallowed up in defpair. Rogers. — 
Weaknefs ; inability.-—The effects of an alkalefcent ftate, 
in any great degree, are third and a dejedtion of appetite, 
which putrid things .cccafion more than any other. Ar- 
buthnet. —[In medicine.] Going to ftool.—The liver 
fhotild Continually feparate the choler from the blood, 
and empty it into the inteftines ; where there is a good 
ufe for it, not only to provoke dcjcdlion, but alfo to atte¬ 
nuate the chyle. Ray. 
DEJEGfTiON, f. in aftrology, is applied to the pla¬ 
nets when in their detriment, as aftrolcgers {peak, i. e. 
when they have loft their force, or influence, as is pre¬ 
tended, by reafon of their being in oppofition to fome 
others, which check and counteract them. Or, it is ufed 
when a planet is in a fign oppofite to that in which it has 
its greateft effedt, or influence, which is called its exalta¬ 
tion. Thus, the fign Aries being the exaltation of the 
Sun, the oppofite fign Libra is its dejedtion. ■ 
DEJEC'TURE, f The excrement—A difea’fe oppo¬ 
fite to fpiftitude is too great fluidity, the fymptoms of 
which are excefs of animal fecretions ; as cf peripiration, 
fvvear, urine, liquid dejcElures, leannefs, weaknefs, and. 
third. Arbuthnot. 
DEJERA'TION, f. [from dejero, Lat.] A taking of 
a folemn oath. 
DEIFA'N, a town of Arabia, in the country of Ye¬ 
men: thirty-two miles north of Sana. 
DEIFtCA'TION, J. [deification, Fr. ] The adt cf dei¬ 
fying, or making a god. 
DE'IFORM, adj. [from dens and forma, Lat.] Of a 
godlike form. 
To DE'IFY, v. a. [defer, Fr. from dais and fo, Lat. 3 
To make a god of; to adore as god ; to transfer into the 
number of the divinities.—Perfuade the covetous man 
not to deify his money, and the proud man not to adore 
himfelf. South. 
Daphnis, the fields delight, the fliepherd’s love, 
Renown’d on earth, and deified above. Dryden. 
To praife exceflively ; to extol one as if he were a god. 
—He did again fo extol and deify the pope, as made all 
that he had Laid in praife of his mafter and miftrefs feem 
temperate and paffable. Bacon. 
DEIG'GITSCH, a river of Germany, which runs into 
the Kainach, about a mile fouth-eaft from Vcitfberg. 
To DEIGN, v. n. [from daigner, Fr. of dignor, Lat.] 
To vouchfafe ; to think worthy : 
O deign to vilit our forfaken feats, 
The mofly fountains, and the green retreats. Pope. 
To DEIGN, v.a. To grant; to permit; to allow : 
Now Sweno, Norway’s king, craves compofition ; 
Nor would we deign him burial of his men, 
Till he difburs’d ten thoufand dollars. Shakefpcare . 
To take delight in : 
Thou haft eftrang’d thyfelf 
And diigncf not our land. Spenfcr. 
Thy palate then did deign 
The rougheft berry on the rudeft hedge. Shakefpcare. 
DEIGN'ING,y. A vouchfafing ; a thinking worthy, 
DEINCLI'NERS, or Deinc lining Dials, f. are fuch 
as both decline and incline, or recline, at the fame time, 
Sttppofe, for inftance, a plane cutting the prime vertical 
circle at an angle of thirty degrees, and the horizontal 
plane at an angle of twenty-four degrees, the latitude of 
the place being fifty-two degrees ; a dial drawn on this 
plane, is called a deinclincr. 
DEINE'K, a town of European Turkey, in the pro 7 
vince of Moldavia : thirty-fix miles weft of Btrlat. 
DEINO'SIS, f. [oenccc-i;, from S’enoui, to exaggerate.] 
The medical term for an increafe of a aiforder ; or mor¬ 
bid enlargement of any part. 
DEINS'BURG, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia : five miles north of Ebernftein. 
DEIN'SE, 
