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<blockquote>The <b>dignity</b> of this act was worth the audience of kings. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<blockquote>And the king said, What honor and <b>dignity</b> hath been done to Mordecai for this? <i>Esth. vi. 3.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Reuben, thou art my firstborn, . . . the excellency of <b>dignity</b>, and the excellency of power. <i>Gen. xlix. 3.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of <?/<?/en, manner, style, etc.</def>

<blockquote>A letter written with singular energy and <b>dignity</b> of thought <?/<?/d language. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>One holding high rank; a dignitary.</def>

<blockquote>These filthy dreamers . . . speak evil of <b>dignities</b>. <i>Jude. 8.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Sciences concluding from <b>dignities</b>, and principles known by themselves. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Decorum</er>.</syn>

<cs><col>To stand upon one's dignity</col>, <cd>to have or to affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>They did not <b>stand upon their dignity</b>, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else. <i>R. G. White.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dignotion</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Dig*no"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dignoscere</ets> to distinguish; <ets>di- = dis-</ets> + <ets>gnoscere</ets>, <ets>noscere</ets>, to learn to know.]</ety> <def>Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Digonous</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Dig"o*nous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ = <?/ double + <?/ an angle.]</ety> <def>Having two angles.</def>

<i>Smart.</i>

<h1>Digram</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di"gram</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ = <?/ twice + <?/ letter.]</ety> <def>A digraph.</def>

<h1>Digraph</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di"graph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ = <?/ twice + <?/ a writing, <?/ to write.]</ety> <def>Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as <i>ea</i> in <i>head</i>, or <i>th</i> in <i>bath</i>.</def>

<h1>Digraphic</h1> <Xpage=412>

<hw>Di*graph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to a digraph.</def>

<i>H. Sweet.</i>

<h1>Digress</h1> <Xpage=412>