detest ant (detest ant)

[L. detest an(t-)s, ppr. of detestari, detest: see detest.] Same as detester. [Rare.] You know not what to term them, unle detest ants of the Romish idolatry. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, i. 121. IMG:content-2501.png:[blocks in formation] Armway , The Tablet (ed. 1661), p. 176. dethronizationt (de-thrō-ni-zā'shon), n. [ dethronizatio (n-), dethronizare , pp. de thronizatus , equiv. to dethronare , dethrone: see dethrone. Cf. disthronize .] The act of dethroning. [Rare.] As for the queene, when shee was (God knows how farre guilty) advertised of her husband's dethronization , shee outwardly expre ed great extremity of pa ion. Speed, Edw. II., IX. xii. § 73. detinet (det'i-net), n. [L., he detains, 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. act. of detinere, detain: see de tain.) An old action of debt at common law (chiefly in the phrase action in the detinet), founded on the allegation that defendant kept back the money, whether it was money due as his own debt ( debet and detinet, he owes and detains), or was merely withheld, as where he was executor of the debtor. Sometimes used similarly of replevin for a chattel. detinue (det'i-nu), n. [OF. detinu, detenu, F. détenu, pp. of detenir, F. détenir, detain, By Action of debt, action of detinue , bill, plaint, information, or otherwise. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 371.