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<h1>Dethronement</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>De*throne"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82tr\'93nement</ets>.]</ety> <def>Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.</def>

<h1>Dethroner</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>De*thron"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who dethrones.</def>

<h1>Dethronization</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>De*thron`i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Dethronement.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Speed.</i>

<h1>Dethronize</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>De*thron"ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>dethronizare</ets>.]</ety> <def>To dethrone or unthrone.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Cotgrave.</i>

<h1>Detinue</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det"i*nue</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>detinu</ets>, <ets>detenu</ets>, p. p. of <ets>detenir</ets> to detain. See <er>Detain</er>.]</ety> <def>A person or thing detained</def>; <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>a form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.</def>

<cs><col>Writ of detinue</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>one that lies against him who wrongfully <i>detains<i> goods or chattels delivered to him, or in possession, to recover the thing itself, or its value and damages, from the detainer. It is now in a great measure superseded by other remedies.</cd></cs>

<h1>Detonate</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det"o*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Detonated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Detonating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>detonare</ets>, v. i., to thunder down; <ets>de</ets> + <ets>tonare</ets> to thunder; akin to E. <ets>thunder</ets>. See <er>Thunder</er>, and cf. <er>Detonize</er>.]</ety> <def>To explode with a sudden report; <as>as, niter <ex>detonates</ex> with sulphur</as>.</def>

<h1>Detonate</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det"o*nate</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.</def>

<h1>Detonating</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det"o*na`ting</hw>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <def>from <er>Detonate</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Detonating gas</col>, <cd>a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen with one volume of oxygen, which explodes with a loud report upon ignition.</cd> -- <col>Detonating powder</col>, <cd>any powder or solid substance, as fulminate of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report.</cd> -- <col>Detonating primer</col>, <cd>a primer exploded by a fuse; -- used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations.</cd> -- <col>Detonating tube</col>, <cd>a strong tube of glass, usually graduated, closed at one end, and furnished with two wires passing through its sides at opposite points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark, as in gas analysis, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Detonation</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det`o*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82tonation</ets>.]</ety> <def>An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the <i>detonation</i> of gun cotton.</def>

<h1>Detonator</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det`o*na`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, detonates.</def>

<h1>Detonization</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det`o*ni*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of detonizing; detonation.</def>

<h1>Detonize</h1> <Xpage=401>

<hw>Det"o*nize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Detonate</er>.]</ety> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt><er>Detonized</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Detonizing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.</def>