Debauch: alternatives and connections

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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See Reveal.

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The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

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To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

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To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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Detraction; depreciation.

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Detraction; depreciation.

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The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of…

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The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of…

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Relating to Bacchus or his festival.

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A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

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To turnanother way; to divert.

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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

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The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and m…

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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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