denunciator (den uns i at or)

[= F. dénon ciateur = Pr. Sp. Pg. denunciador = It. denun ziatore, The denunciator does not make himself a party in judgement, as the accuser does. Ayliffe , Parergon. Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. Shak., T. G. of V., i. 1. To deny one's self, to exercise self-denial; refrain from the gratification of one's desires; refrain or abstain from: as, to deny one's self the use of spirituous liquors; to deny one's self a pleasure. If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cro , and follow me. Mat. xvi. 24. Worthy minds in the domestic way of life deny them selves many advantages, to satisfy a generous benevolence. Steele, Spectator, No. 248. =Syn. 6. To disclaim, renounce, abjure. II. in trans. To answer in the negative; refuse to comply. IMG:content-2386.png:[blocks in formation] Let better counsels be his guides. Chapman. denyt, n. [OF. deni , denie , denoi , F. déni , denial, refusal; from the noun. Cf. denay, n.] Denial. [Rare.] Yet vse no threats, nor giue them flat Denies. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. cially of the fetid odor resulting from impurities: as, charcoal or quicklime deodorizes night soil. Also spelled deodorise. A very minute proportion of per chlorid of iron added to fresh sewage in a tank preserved the liquid from putrefaction for nine days during very hot weather in July. Such deodorized sewage soon becomes putrid when it is allowed to mingle with river water. IMG:content-2387.png:[blocks in formation] It [tar-water] is... a powerful and safe deobstruent in cachectick and hysterick cases. Bp. Berkeley , Siris, § 6. deoculate (de-ok'u-lāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. de oculated, ppr. deoculating . [L. de , from, + oculus , eye: see ocular .] To deprive of eyes or eyesight; blind. [Ludicrous.] Dorothy, I hear, has mounted spectacles; so you have deoculated two of your dearest relations in life. Lamb, To Words worth, April 9, 1816. [ deodand (dēʻō-dand), n. i. e., Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God: Deo, dat. of Deus, God (see deity); dandum, neut. of dandus, to be given, ger. of dare, give (see datel ).] Formerly, in Eng. law, from the earliest times, a personal chattel which had been the immediate occasion of the death of a rational creature, and for that reason given to God-that is, forfeited to the king to be applied to pious uses and distributed in alms by his high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, the cart was by law forfeited as a deodand, and the coroner's jury was required to fix the value of the forfeited property. The pious object of the forfeiture was early lost sight of, and the king might and often did cede his right to deodands within certain limits as a private perquisite. Deodands were not abolished till 1846. For love should, like a deodand , Still fall to th' owner of the land. S. Butler , The Lady's Answer to the Knight, 1. 103.