Part 3006

<h1>Despecfication</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spec`fi*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Discrimination.</def>

<h1>Despect</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spect"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>despectus</ets>, fr. <ets>despicere</ets>. See <er>Despite</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>Contempt.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Despection</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>despectio</ets>.]</ety> <def>A looking down; a despising.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>W. Montagu.</i>

<h1>Despeed</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*speed"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To send hastily.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Despeeded</b> certain of their crew. <i>Speed.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Despend</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spend"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To spend; to squander. See <er>Dispend</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Some noble men in Spain can <b>despend</b> <?/50,000. <i>Howell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Desperado</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>Des`per*a"do</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Desperadoes</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[OSp. <ets>desperado</ets>, p. p. of <ets>desperar</ets>, fr. L. <ets>desperare</ets>. See <er>Desperate</er>.]</ety> <def>A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.</def>

<h1>Desperate</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>Des"per*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>desperatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>desperare</ets>. See <er>Despair</er>, and cf. <er>Desperado</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I am <b>desperate</b> of obtaining her. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; <as>as, a <ex>desperate</ex> disease; <ex>desperate</ex> fortune.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; <as>as, a <ex>desperate</ex> effort</as>.</def> "<i>Desperate</i> expedients."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>desperate</b> offendress against nature. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The most <b>desperate</b> of reprobates. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Hopeless; despairing; desponding; rash; headlong; precipitate; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn; mad; furious; frantic.</syn>

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