Part 3017

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also <altname>annihilationist</altname>.</def>

<i>Shipley.</i>

<h1>Destructive</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*struc"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>destructivus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>destructif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with <i>of</i> or <i>to</i>; <as>as, intemperance is <ex>destructive</ex> of health; evil examples are <ex>destructive</ex> to the morals of youth.</as></def>

<blockquote>Time's <b>destructive</b> power. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Destructive distillation</col>. <cd>See <er>Distillation</er>.</cd> -- <col>Destructive sorties</col> <tt>(<?/)</tt> <fld>(Logic)</fld>, <cd>a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of <i>reductio ad absurdum<i>.</cd></cs>

<i>Whately.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant; baleful; pernicious; mischievous.</syn>

<h1>Destructive</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*struc"tive</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.</def>

<h1>Destructively</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*struc"tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a destructive manner.</def>

<h1>Destructiveness</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*struc"tive*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of destroying or ruining.</def>

<i>Prynne.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Phren.)</fld> <def>The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.</def>

<h1>Destructor</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*struc"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., from <ets>destruere</ets>. See <er>Destroy</er>, and cf. <er>Destroyer</er>.]</ety> <def>A destroyer.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Fire, the <b>destructive</b> and the artificial death of things. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Destruie</h1> <Xpage=400>

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

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Desudation</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>Des`u*da"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>desudatio</ets>, fr. <ets>desudare</ets> to sweat greatly; <ets>de</ets> + <ets>sudare</ets> to sweat.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.</def>

<h1>Desuete</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*suete"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>desuetus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>desuescere</ets> to disuse.]</ety> <def>Disused; out of use.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Desuetude</h1> <Xpage=400>