Chapter Defeudalize to Deflexion of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Defeudalize to Deflexion

Defeudalize
(De*feu"dal*ize) v. t. To deprive of the feudal character or form.

Defiance
(De*fi"ance) n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge, fr. desfier to challenge, F. défier. See Defy.]

1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

A war without a just defiance made.

Dryden.

Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.

Tennyson.

2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.

He breathed defiance to my ears.

Shak.

3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance to thy kindness." Ford.

To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.

Defiant
(De*fi"ant) a. [Cf. F. défiant, p. pr. of défier. See Defy.] Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.

In attitude stern and defiant.

Longfellow.

— De*fi"ant*ly, adv. — De*fi"ant*ness, n.

Defiatory
(De*fi"a*to*ry) a. [See Defy.] Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.

Defibrinate
(De*fi"bri*nate) v. t. To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

Defibrination
(De*fi`bri*na"tion) n. The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

Defibrinize
(De*fi"bri*nize) v. t. To defibrinate.

Deficience
(De*fi"cience) n. Same as Deficiency.

Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee
Is no deficience found.

Milton.

Deficiency
(De*fi"cien*cy) n.; pl. Deficiencies [See Deficient.] The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiency of blood." Arbuthnot.

[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

Buckle.

Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

Deficient
(De*fi"cient) a. [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of deficere to be wanting. See Defect.] Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.

The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.

Macaulay.

Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant.

— De*fi"cient-ly, adv.