desertricet (dezertris)

[ Cleave to a wife and let her be a wife, let her be a meet help, a solace, not a nothing, not an adversary, not a de sertrice. Milton , Tetrachord on. desert-snake (dez'ėrt-snāk), n. A colubriform serpent of the family Psammophidæ (or sub IMG:content-2450.png:[blocks in formation] 1559 But daies thre this seede is goode bewette In mylk or meth, and after desiccate Sette hem. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 110. desiccation (des-i-kā'shon), n. tion = Sp. desecacion = = [OF. desicca design The great desiderata are taste and common sense. Cole ridge , Table-Talk. cação, de icação *desiccatio(n-), It. dis sec caz i one, being dr moisture; especially, the evapo evaporation of the aqueous portion of a substance, as wood, meat, fruit, milk, etc., by artificial heat, as by a current of heated air. They affirm that much of this country is poorly fitted for agriculture on account of the extreme desiccation of the soil every summer. Job xi. 6. 'Tis not in mortals to command succe ; But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. Add is on , Cato, i. 2. 21. To serve or treat well; benefit. A man that hath so well deserved me. Mas singer. 31. To repay by service; return an equivalent for (service rendered). Thou hast so moc he don for me, That I nemay it nevere more deserve . Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 387. 41. To require; demand the attention of. I mention your noble brother, who is gone to Cleave, not to return till towards Christmas, except the busine deserve him not so long. Donne , Letters, lxxxvi. II. in trans. To merit; be worthy or deserving: as, he deserves well of his country. Those they honoured, as having power to work or cease, as men deserved of them. Hooker , Eccles. Polity. deservedly (dē-zèrved-li), adv. Justly; according to desert, whether of good or evil. God's Judgment had deservedly fallen down upon him for his Blasphemies. Howell, Letters, I. v. 11. A man deservedly cuts himself off from the affections of that community which he endeavours to subvert. Add is on. deserver (dē-zérvér), n. One who deserves or merits; one who is worthy: used generally in a good sense. Whose love is never link'd to the deserver , 'Till his deserts are pa t. Shak., A. and C., i. 2.