desolation, desolacioun

[Fr. désola tion; Sp. desolacion; Ital. desolazione, from Lat. desolatus, pa. par. of desolo to make lonely or des olate.] 1. The act of desolating or making desolate, waste, and deserted; a laying waste, a depriving of inhabitants; devastation, depopulation. "Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth." Ps. xlvi. 8. 2. A desolate state or condition; ruin. "The said island was brought almost into desolation . " Hackluyt: Voyages , i. 14. 3. A place made desolate; a wilderne , a wild. "How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations." Jer . 1. 23. 4. A state or condition of being forsaken, deserted, afflicted, or comfortle ; sadne . "And mine's the guilt, and mine the hell, This bosom's desolation dooming." Byron: Herod's Lament. IMG:content-2265.png:[blocks in formation] Byron: Ode to Napoleon. 1359 ing or accompanied by desolation. des-o-lāt -õr-y, a. [Eng. desolator ; -y.] Caus- ment of God's mercy." -Bishop Hall: Rem., p. 55.. "These desolatory judgments are a notable improve- de-so-phis-ti-cāte, v . t . [Pref.de away, from, ism or error. and Eng. sophisticate (q. v.).] To clear from soph- des-ox-a-lāte, s. [Eng. desoxal (ic), and suff. -ate ( Chem .) (q. v.).] *C. Transitive : despatch 1. To give up or lose all hope of or in; to despair of. "Full counsel must mature; peace is despair'd , For who can think submi ion?" Milton: P. L., i. 660, 661. 2. To cause to despair; to create despair in. Sutton: Learn to Die (1600), p. 189 (ed. 1848). "Miseries for a moment could not despair them."- Chr . *dě-späir-a-ble, *de-speir-a-ble, a . [Latin desperabilis.] Desperate, fit or liable to be de Chem.: A salt of des oxalic acid (q. v.). (q. v.).] děs-ox-al-ic, a. [Fr. pref. dés , and Eng. oxalic spaired of.