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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.</def>

<h1>Degenerately</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*gen"er*ate*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a degenerate manner; unworthily.</def>

<h1>Degenerateness</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*gen"er*ate*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Degeneracy.</def>

<h1>Degeneration</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*gen`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82g\'82n\'82ration</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.</def>

<blockquote>Our <b>degeneration</b> and apostasy. <i>Bates.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; <as>as, fatty <ex>degeneration</ex> of the liver</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular or organs; hereditary degradation of type.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The thing degenerated.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Cockle, aracus, . . . and other <b>degenerations</b>. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>Amyloid degeneration</col>, <col>Caseous degeneration</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Amyloid</er>, <er>Caseous</er>, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Degenerationist</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*gen`er*a"tion*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; <as>as, the <ex>degenerationists</ex> hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state</as>.</def>

<h1>Degenerative</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*gen"er*a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.</def>

<h1>Degenerous</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*gen"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>degener</ets>. See <er>Degenerate</er>.]</ety> <def>Degenerate; base.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Degenerous</i> passions." <i>Dryden</i>. "<i>Degenerous</i> practices."

<i>South.</i>

<h1>Degenerously</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*gen"er*ous*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Basely.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Deglazing</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*glaz"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Degloried</h1> <Xpage=383>

<hw>De*glo"ried</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Deprived of glory; dishonored.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "With thorns <i>degloried</i>."