del (de)

[Also written dee, de2, prep. [(1) ME. de, daisied . dazy (dā'zi), a . [Sc. also daisy , daisie , etc.; daze gentle descent, corresponding in this to the German von +y.] Cold; raw: as, a dazy day. [Scotch.] dazzle (daz'l), v.; pret. and pp. dazzled, ppr. dazzling. [Freq. of daze.] I. trans. 1. To overpower with light; hinder distinct vision of by intense light; dim, as the sight, by exce of light. Dark with exce ive bright thy skirts appear, Yet dazzle heaven; that brightest seraphim Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes. Milton , P. L., iii. 381. Then did the glorious light of the Gospel shine forth, and dazzle the eyes even of those who were thought to see best and furthest, Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. iii. and the Dutch van. often originated without any such implication, and has also been often a umed without authority, it is in itself of no value as such evidence. But as the particle in proper names 2. A Latin preposition, meaning 'from' or 'of,' occurring in certain phrases often used in English: as, de novo, anew; de facto, of fact; de jure, of right. de-. [(1) ME. de-, dis-, dif-.] 1. A verb-prefix of Latin origin, expre ing in Latin, and hence with modifications in modern speech, various phases of the original meaning 'from, away from, down from.' (1) Separative, denoting departure or removal -'off, from off, away, away, down, out, or ce ation or removal of the fun damental idea: de- privative, equivalent to un or dis privative. (2) Completive-through, out, to the end, etc. (3) Intensive: a force often lost in English. (See examples following.) In some words the separative or privative force of this prefix is felt in English, as in de compose, demote, being in such meaning often used as an English prefix ( de- privative), as in decentralize, de - Saxon ize, derail, etc. It is le distinctly felt in words like depre , detract, etc.; and in many words, where it has in Latin the completive or intensive force, its force is not felt in English, as in deride, denote, etc. 2. In some words a reduced form of the original Latin prefix dis-, Latin de- and dis -being in Old French and Middle English more or le merged in form and meaning (see dis- ). See defer2, deface, defame, decry, etc. -de. A form of -d1, d2, or -ed1, -ed2 in older English, as in solde, tolde, fledde, etc., now extant only in made, the (contracted) preterit and past participle of make. See -ed1, -ed2.