To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To turnanother way; to divert.
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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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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…
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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
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of Eat
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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…
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One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
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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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To carry or send back.
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Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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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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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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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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One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
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A believer in fetiches.
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To lick.
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A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.
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See Leach.
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One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.
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A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
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of Seethe
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An inhabitant of Sodom.
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Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…
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Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…
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The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, th…
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The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, th…
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To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
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To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
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The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
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The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
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The art or process of reasoning; logic.
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The art or process of reasoning; logic.
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To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…
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Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.
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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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Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…
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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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Deviating.
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To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
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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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To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
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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 render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.
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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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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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