To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
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To aim; to direct.
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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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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…
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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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Taken.
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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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The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
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The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
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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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To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…
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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 guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
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To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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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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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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