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<syn>Syn. -- To baffle; disappoint; frustrate.</syn>

<h1>Defeat</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*feat"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82faite</ets>, fr. <ets>d\'82faire</ets>. See <er>Defeat</er>, <tt>v.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An undoing or annulling; destruction.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Upon whose property and most dear life A damned <b>defeat</b> was made. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; <as>as, the <ex>defeat</ex> of a plan or design</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to <i>victory</i>.</def>

<h1>Defeature</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fea"ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>desfaiture</ets> a killing, disguising, prop., an undoing. See <er>Defeat</er>, and cf. <er>Disfeature</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Overthrow; defeat.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Nothing but loss in their <i>defeature</i>."

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Disfigurement; deformity.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Strange <i>defeatures</i> in my face."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Defeatured</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fea"tured</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <def>Changed in features; deformed.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Features when <b>defeatured</b> in the . . . way I have described. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Defecate</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>Def"e*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>defaecatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>defaecare</ets> to defecate; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>faex</ets>, <ets>faecis</ets>, dregs, less.]</ety> <def>Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.</def>

<blockquote>Till the soul be <b>defecate</b> from the dregs of sense. <i>Bates.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Defecate</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>Def"e*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Defecated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Defecating</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>defecate</b> the dark and muddy oil of amber. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.</def>

<blockquote>We <b>defecate</b> the notion from materiality. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Defecated</b> from all the impurities of sense. <i>Bp. Warburton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Defecate</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>Def"e*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt>