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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 Dei gratia by the Grace of God. deintegrate To disintegrate. Deipara Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God. deiparous Giving birth to a god or goddess. dejecta any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on. dejectory Having power, or tending, to cast down. dejeration The act of swearing solemnly. de jure By right; in accordance with or as deemed by the statute of the law, particularly as opposed to actual practice. delaceration An act of tearing into pieces. delactation The act of weaning. delapse To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. delate To carry; to convey. delation Conveyance. delative A grammatical case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table"). deleatur dele (“mark signifying deletion”) delect To delight. delectate To delight, to charm, to bring pleasure to. delection A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction. delectus An elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language delegatory Holding a delegated position. delibate To taste; to take a sip of. delibation Act of tasting; a slight trial. delible That which can be deleted or erased. delibrate To strip off the bark; to peel. delibration The act of stripping off bark. delictuous transgressing morality deligate To bind up; to bandage. deligotype A form of polymorphism in the repeat units of DNA deligotyping The identification and characterisation of deligotypes delinition A smearing. delinquish to relinquish deliquate To cause (something) to melt away; to consume, to dissolve. deliquesce To melt by absorbing water and disappearing. deliquescent Seeming to melt away. deliquium Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air. delirament A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. delirant Delirious. delirate To act, speak or reason in a manner thought insane, to be affected or characterized by delirium; to rave. deliration aberration of the mind; delirium delirifacient Producing, or tending to produce, delirium. delirium tremens A severe, potentially life-threatening form of alcohol withdrawal characterized by the abrupt onset of global confusion, autonomic hyperactivity, and profound neuropsychiatric disturbances. delitescent Lying uncovered inside; latent. Delium an Ancient Greek town that was known as the site of the Battle of Delium during the Peloponnesian War delphinic Relating to dolphins; delphine. delphinion A temple dedicated to Apollo Delphinios. delphinoid Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin deltafication The formation of a delta or deltas. delubrum A temple or shrine. de lunatico inquirendo A legal document inquiring about the sanity of an individual. demency Madness; dementia. dementate To dement, to make crazy. dementation The act of depriving of reason; madness. demerge To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger. demerse To immerse, to submerge (something). demersion The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning. demigrate To emigrate. demigration emigration de minimis Concerning things that are so minor as to be negligible, trivial, or trifling. Often used to describe exemptions in government rules and regulations. de minimis non curat lex The law does not concern itself with trifles; expression of the rule that the law will not remedy an injury that is minimal. demiss Humble, lowly; abject. demit To let fall; to depress; to yield. demonolatry Worship of demons. demonomania An unnatural fear of devils and Hell. demonstrant A participant in a demonstration. Demosthenic Pertaining to or characteristic of Demosthenes, a celebrated Athenian orator (384-322, B.C.), especially famous for his "Phillippics," or orations delivered against the encroachments of Philip, king of Macedon. demulce To soothe, assuage, pacify or soften. denarian Pertaining to the number 10. denary An ancient coin, the denarius. Deneau A surname from French. denegate To deny, refuse or contradict. denivation Pertaining to the process of melting snow. den of iniquity A place of immoral behavior, often of a sexual type. denotate To mark off; to denote. denotatum Something that is denoted; a referent. de novo Anew, afresh, from the beginning; without consideration of previous instances, proceedings or determinations. dens invaginatus A rare dental malformation where there is an infolding of enamel into dentine, producing a "tooth within a tooth". denti- Synonym of dento-. denticle A small tooth. denticulate Finely dentate, as a leaf edge; bearing many small toothlike structures. dentiferous Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures. dentiform Having the shape or structure of a tooth. dentigerous Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop. dentilave A wash for cleaning the teeth. dentile A small tooth, like that of a saw. dentiphone An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. dentiroster A dentirostral bird dentiscalp A toothpick. dentize To teethe. dento- tooth or teeth dentoid Shaped like a tooth. denudate To denude. denunciate To condemn openly. denunciative denunciatory denunciator Someone who denounces, threatens or accuses. deodate A gift or offering to, or from, God. deordination disorder; dissoluteness deorsum- In a downwards direction. Deo volente God willing depascent Consuming. depeculation robbery or embezzlement.