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184.] deignoust, a. See dainous. Dei gratia (dē'ī grā'shi-ä). [L.: Dei , gen. of Deus , God; gratia , abl. of gratia , grace.] By the grace or favor of God: an expre ion usually inserted in the ceremonial statement of the title of a sovereign: as, Victoria Dei gratia Britannia rum regina (Victoria, by the grace of God queen of the Britains). It was originally used by bishops and abbots as expre ive of their divine commi ion, afterward by secular rulers of various grades, and finally by monarchs as a special mark of absolute sovereignty and a divine legation. Dei judicium (dē'i jö-dish'i-um). [L.: Dei , gen. of Deus , God; judicium , judgment: see judicial .] In law , the judgment of God: a phrase applied to the old Saxon trial by ordeal. deil (del), n. [Sc., = E. dial. deel , dule , etc., del , etc.; a contr. of devil , q. v.] 1. The devil.-2. A wicked, mischievous, or trouble some fellow. They're a' run deils or jads thegither. Burns, The Twa Dogs. n. English form of dais . deism (dē'izm), n. [F. déis me = Sp. Pg. It. de ismo D. G. deism us = Dan. deisme = Sw.deism , deism us , Deus , God, + -ismus, E. -ism.] 1. The doctrine that God is distinct and separated from the world. See deist , 1.2. Belief in the existence of a personal God, accompanied with the denial of revelation and of the authority of the Christian church. Deism is opposed to atheism, or the denial of any God; to pantheism, which denies or ignores the personality of God; to theism, which believes not only in a God, but in his living relations with his creatures; and to Christianity, which adds a belief in a historical manifestation of God, as recorded in the Bible. deist (dē'ist), n. [F. deiste (Viret, 1563), now déiste = Sp. Pg. It. deist a = D. G. Dan. Sw. de ist, deist a , Deus , God, + -ist a , E. -ist.] 1. One who believes in the existence of a personal God, but in few or none of the more special doctrines of the Christian religion; one who holds to some of the more general propositions of the Christian faith concerning the Deity, but denies revelation and the authority of the church. The name in this sense is particularly appropriated to a group of English writers, mostly of the first half of the eighteenth century. See free - thinker . A man who, on the account of the obscurity of Holy Writ, shall pretend to reject the christian religion, and turn deist , must, upon the same account, reject deism too, and IMG:content-2271.png:[blocks in formation] Deil's buckie. See buckie. - Deil's dozen. Same as bakers ' dozen (which see, under baker ). - Deil's snuffbox, the conimon puffball. The deil gaes o'er Jock Wabster, everything goes topsy-turvy; there is the devil Deists , those who admit ay natural orige IMG:content-2272.png:[blocks in formation] Deimos (di'mos), n. [ δειμός , fear, terror, personified in the Iliad, and later regarded as a son of Ares (Mars).) A satellite of Mars, revolving about its primary in 30 hours and 18 minutes. It was discovered by Asaph Hall, of Washington, in 1877. dein1t, v . t . An obsolete form of deign . dein2 (dēn), adv . [Sc., also spelled deen ; = E. done.] Literally, done; hence, completely; very. [Scotch (Aberdeen shire).] What tho' fowk say that I can preach Nae that dein ill. Those who admit a transcendental theology are called admit that we know the existence of an nal being by mere reason, but that our concept of it is transcendental only, as of a being which po e es all reality, but a reality that cannot be further determined. The latter maintain that reason is capable of determining that object more accurately in analogy with nature: namely, as a being which, through understanding and freedom, contains within itself the original ground of all other things. Kant , Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Müller.