dejeuner (jeuner as zhuna)

[Fr., from de away, from, and jeûner =to fast.] The morning meal, breakfast. (Generally used as synonymous with luncheon.) Déjeuner à la fourchette: Lit., a breakfast with forks- i. e., with meat; a luncheon. dë jû rẽ, phr. [Lat.] By right, of right; by law. [DE FACTO.] Děk-a-brist, s . [Ru . Dekab (t)r=December, and Eng. suff. -ist ] One implicated in a military conspiracy which broke out in St. Petersburg on the acce ion of the Emperor Nicholas on December 25, 1825. dek-a-ma'-11, s. [Various Hindoo languages.] dekamali resin, s. Comm.: A resin which exudes from Gardenia lucid a , an East Indian plant. It di olves in alcohol with a greenish-yellow color. On exhausting the resin with hot alcohol, garden in separates out in yellow acicular crystals. Fused with caustic potash it yields a substance from which pro to cate chuic acid is separated by acids. *de-king', v . t . [Pref. de away, from, and Eng. king ] To cause to be no longer king; to dethrone, to depose "Edward being thus dekinged."-Speed: Edward III., bk. ix., ch. xii., § 75. Min.: A variety of Montmorillonite (q.v.) ( Dana ); a variety of Halloysite ( Brit . Mus . Cat .). It is from Nontron, in France. *de-lap-sā'-tion, s. [Lat. delapsus fallen down, pa. par. of delabor to fall down.] A falling down; delapsion. *dě-lăpse', v . i. [Lat. delapsus .] 1. To fall or glide down. 2. To hand or pa on by inheritance. "The right before all other Of the delapsed crown from Philip."-Drayton. *dě-lăpsed, pa. par. or a. [DELAPSE.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Ord. Lang .: Fallen down; pa ed on. 2. Med.: Bearing or falling down. It is used in speaking of the womb and the like. *dě-lắp-sion, s . [Lat. delapsus .] A falling or bearing down, as of the womb, . "The same rays should have their frictions, fluxions, and delapsions ."- Holland : Plutarch , p. 954. To discharge. to bear.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. To carry, to convey. IMG:content-2067.png:[blocks in formation] "Vinum dilutum, lymphatum hydares. Vin trempé. Wine delayed and mixed with water." Nomenclator. (Nares.) *5. To temper, to moderate, to soften. "A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titans beames." - Spenser Prothalamion. B. In trans.: To put off action for a time; to linger, to move slowly. "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount,."- Exod . xxxii. 1. Crabb thus discriminates between to delay, to defer, to procrastinate, to postpone, to prolong, to protract, and to retard : To delay is simply not to commence action; to defer and postpone are to fix its commencement at a more distant period; we may delay a thing for days, hours, and minutes; we defer or postpone it for months or weeks. Delays from faults in the delaying ; mostrarseldom reasonable or advantageous; de ferring and postponing are discretionary acts, which are justified by the circumstances; indolent people are most prone to delay ; when a plan is not maturely digested, it is prudent to defer its execution until everything is in an entire state of preparation. Procrastination is a culpable delay arising solely from the fault of the procrastinator ; it is the part of a dilatory man to procrastinate that which it is both his interest and duty to perform. We delay [or postpone ] the execution of a thing; we prolong , or protract , the continuation of a thing; we retard the termination of a thing; we may delay "When the crime is delated or notorious." -Jer. Taylor: Rule of Conscience , bk. iii., ch. 4. 3. To conduct, to manage, to carry on. " Delating in a male attire the empire new begun." Warner: Albion's England , bk. i., ch. 1. Pa ion, p. 52. 5. To dilute, to allay. lawsuit, and retard a publication." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)