deosculatet (deos kulat)

t. [L. deoscula tus, pp. of deosculari, ki , The several acts of worship required to be performed to images, viz., proce ions, genuflections, thurifications and deosculations . Stilling fleet . deo ification (dē-os"i-fi-kā'shon), n. [ deos sify + -ation. Cf. o ification.] Progre ive diminution or reduction of o ification; tion; disappearance of o ification from parts normally o ified. The branchial apparatus has undergone, as in the eels, succe ive deo ification (by retardation). E. D. Cope , Origin of the Fittest, p. 328. deo ify (de-os'i-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. deos sified, ppr. deo ifying. [ Deo volente (dē'ō vō-len'tē). [L.: Deo, abl. of Deus, God; volente, abl. of volen (t-)s, ppr. of velle = E. will: see voluntary, etc.] God willing; with God's permi ion: as, I start for Europe to-morrow, Deo volente. Generally abbreviated D. V.