denutrition (denutrishon)

[ I put it all vpon yow, and kepe ye myn honoure as ye owe to do. And what ye ordeyne I shall it not den ye . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 83. His own way he will still have, and no one dare deny him. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, p. 127. 2. To declare to be untrue or untenable; reject as false or erroneous; refuse to admit, accept, or believe: as, to deny an accusation, or the truth of a statement or a theory; to deny a doctrine. When the knewen all the cause, tho kynges bydene, All denyde it anon; no mon a entid. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8009. Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny . Milton , P. L., v. 107. But she loved Enoch; tho' she knew it not, And would if ask'd deny it. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. No one, except under constraint of some extravagant theory, denies that pleasure is good. T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 368. 3. To refuse; refuse to grant or give; withhold or withhold from: as, to deny bread to the hungry; to deny a request. To stande in fatte lande wol it not den ye . Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 115. He [St. Augustine) cannot mean simply that audience should altogether be denied unto men, but either that if men speak one thing and God himself teaches another, then he, not they, to be obeyed. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, ii. 7. Think not ill manners in me for denying Your offer'd meat; for, sure, I cannot eat While I do think she wants. Beau , and Fl . , Coxcomb, iv. 2. 'Twill be hard for us to deny a Woman any thing, since we are so newly come on Shore. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, i. 1. 4. To reject as non-existent or unreal; refuse to believe in the existence of; disallow the reality of. [Rare.] Many deny witches at all, or if there be any they can do no harm. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 128. Though they deny two persons in the Trinity, they hold, as we do, there is but one God. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 20. 5. To refuse acce to; keep from being seen; withhold from view or intercourse: as, he de nied himself to visitors. The butler. ushered me very civilly into the parlour, and told me though my lady had given strict orders to be denied , he was sure I might be admitted. Steele , Tatler, No. 266. 6. To refuse to acknowledge; disavow; renounce; disown. And if he do he shall be compelled incontynently to den ye his fayth and cry sten do me, or ellys he shalbe put to execucion of deth by and by. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 44. He that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. Luke xii. 9. Christ tells the Jews that, if they believe not, they shall die in their sins; did they never read those denunciations ? Bp . Ward. Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error, Motley . 3. In Scots law , the act by which a person who has disobeyed the charge given on letters of horning is outlawed or proclaimed a rebel.-4. In civil law , accusation against one of a crime 7. To forbid. before a public prosecuting officer. denunciative (de-nun şi-a-tiv), a. [= F.dénon ciatif = Pg. denunciativo, Here's a villain, that would face me down That I did deny my wife and house. Shak., C. of E., iii. 1. I am denied to sue my livery here, And yet my letters-patent give me leave. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 3. You may deny me to accompany you, but cannot hin- der me from following. Johnson, Ra elas, xiv. the character of a denunciation; denunciatory; 8t. To contradict; repel; disprove. prone to denunciation; ready to denounce. The clamorous, the idle, and the ignorantly denuncia tive. Farrar , Language, iv.