And so thei ben not now tweyne but o fleisch; therfor a man departe not that thing that God hath ioyned. Wiclif (2), Matt. xix. 6.

Whan that I hearde ferre off sodainly,

So great a noise of thundering trumpes blow,
As though it should have departed the skie.

Chaucer, The Flower and the Leaf, 193.
Til that the deth departen shal us tweine.

Knight's Tale, 1136.

The conquerors at the first departed the Ilond betweene them. Pol. Verg. I. 36.

Deputy, sb. (Acts xiii. 7, xviii. 12, xix. 38). Appropriately used by our Translators as the rendering of the Greek ávovaros, the proconsul or governor of a senatorial province. In the 16th century the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was called the Lord Deputy.

Plague of your policy!

You sent me deputy for Ireland.

Shakespeare, Hen. VIII. III. 2.

Depraving, sb. (Act of Unif. Eliz.) Depreciation.
Depraving, shame, untrust, and jelousie.

Chaucer, Cuckow and Nightingale, 174.

Derision, to have in (Job xxx. 1; Ps. ii. 4). To

deride.

Whyche two thynges if ye woulde resemble togither, so might ye blaspheme and haue in derysion all the deuout rytes & cerimonies of the church. Sir T. More, Works, p. 121 d.

Describe, v.t. (Josh. xviii. 4, 6). Like the Lat. describere, in its literal sense, 'to mark, trace out.' Our Translators followed the Vulgate in their rendering. So the word is used by Milton (P. L. IV. 567):

I described his way

Bent on all speed and marked his aery gait.

The word is still used in a technical sense as applied to the drawing of geometrical figures.

Deserving, sb. (Judg. ix. 16). Desert.

And yet to be afeard of my deserving
Were but a weak disabling of myself.

Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. II. 7.

It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.
Id. 2 Hen. IV. IV. 3.

Desire, v.t. (2 Chr. xxi. 20). Like the Lat. desiderare, from which it is derived, this word signifies 'to regret.'

She that hath a wise husband must entice him to an eternal dearness by the veil of modesty and the grave robes of chastity, and she shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies. J. Taylor, The Marriage Ring, Sermon 18 (quoted in Trench's Glossary).

Chapman uses the substantive in the same way, as equivalent to desiderium:

With passionate desire

Of their kind manager.

Hom. Il. XVII. 380.

Despite, sb. (Heb. x. 29). The Lat. despicere, to look down upon, despise, became in O. Fr. despire (as from conficere was formed confire), whence the noun despit, contempt, contumely.

God sayth by the prophet Jeremie, The folk that me despisen shal be in despite. Chaucer, Parson's Tale (ed. Tyrwhitt).

And again in the same Tale:

Inobedient is he that disobeyeth for despit to the commandments of God.

So Sackville (Induction, 426):

Cyrus I saw and his host dead,

And how the Queene with greate despite hath flong
His head in bloud of them shee ouercome.

Hence the adjective despitous, which is found in Chaucer:

Despitous, is he that hath desdayn of his neighbour.
Parson's Tale.

Despite, v. t. To treat with contempt.

The Romanistes therefore in refusing to heare, and daring to burne the word translated, did no lesse then despite the spirit of grace. The Translators to the Reader.

Despiteful (Ez. xxv. 15) and Despitefully (Matt. v. 44) are respectively the adjective and adverb from the preceding:

To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome
Cast on my noble father.

Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. II. 6.

Determinate, pp. (Acts ii. 23). Determined; Lat. determinatus, marked off by boundaries, and so, definite, fixed:

Like men disused with a long peace, more determinate to do, then skilfull how to do. Sidney, Arcadia, p. 21, l. 10.

The following passage of Chaucer is a better illustration:

Have ye a figure than determinate
In helle, ther ye ben in your estate?

'quod the Sumpnour' to the Devil.

The Friar's Tale, 7041.

Die the death (Matt. xv. 4). This phrase occurs in Sackville's Induction, 55:

It taught mee well all earthly things be borne

To dye the death.

Or else he must not only die the death,

But thy unkindness shall his death draw out

To lingering sufferance.

Shakespeare, Meas. for Meas. II. 4.

Either to die the death, or to abjure
For ever the society of men.

Id. Mid. N.'s Dr. I. I.

Digged (Gen. xxi. 30; xxvi. 15, 18, &c.). This weak form of the past tense and participle of 'dig' is used throughout the A. V. in preference to the stronger form 'dug,' and in accordance with the custom of contemporary writers.

For euen so did Xerxes in old time cause the mountaine Atho to be cut in sunder, and a channell to be digged there to passe his shippes through. North's Plutarch, Lucullus, p. 569.

The Scripture says, Adam digged: could he dig without arms. Shakespeare, Ham. v. I.

Mary, in any case this same toad must be digged out of the ground againe before the field be mowed, els will the millet proue bitter in tast. Holland's Pliny, XVIII. 17.

Diligence, sb. The phrases 'do diligence' (2 Tim. iv. 9, 21), and 'give diligence' (2 Pet. i. 10), are frequently found in old writers. Thus Chaucer (Tale of Melibeus) says the office of physicians is

After here craft to do gret diligence unto the cure of hem whiche that thay have in here governaunce.

Now wepe nomore, I schal do my diligence,
That Palamon, that is myn owen knight,
Schal have his lady, as thou him bihight.

The Knight's Tale, 2472.

And ech of hem doth his diligence
To doon unto the feste reverence.

The Clerk's Tale, 8071.

Baret (Alvearie, s. v.) supplies the following illustration:

To giue all diligence, to procure aduancement. Inseruire honoribus. Cic.

Disallow, v. t. (Num. xxx. 5, 8, 11; 1 Pet. ii. 4, 7). To

disapprove, reject; literally, to dispraise. For the etymology see ALLOW.

All that is humble he disaloweth.

Gower, Conf. Am. 1. 83.

Latimer, Serm. p. 216.

Allowing that that is good, and disallowing the contrary.

What follows, if we disallow of this?

Shakespeare, K. John I. 1.

Disannul, v.t. (Job xl. 8; Gal. iii. 15). The affix dis-, contrary to custom, has not a negative or privative but an intensive force in this word (as in dissever), which is merely a stronger form of annul, from Fr. annuler, Lat. annihilare, to annihilate, bring to nothing.

Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt.

3 Hen. VI. III. 3.

The word is also found in the form 'dysnull.'
Your hole desyre was set

Touchynge the trouthe by covert lykenes
To dysnull vyce and the vycious to blame.

Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure, cap. 8.

Disannulling, sb. (Heb. vii. 18). From the pre

ceding.

Discipline, sb. used in Job xxxvi. 10, in its true meaning (Lat. disciplina, from disco, to learn') of instruction. In the Commination Service it means the 'execution of the laws by which the Church is governed, and infliction of its penalties.'

For then haue they longed, vnder the prayse of holy scrypture, to set out to shew theyr own study. Which bycause they wold haue seme the more to be set by, they haue fyrst fallen to the dysprays & derysyon of all other dyscyplynes. Sir T. More, Dial. f. 38d.

Discomfit, v. t. (Ex. xvii. 13; 2 Sam. xxii. 15, &c.). Fr. déconfire, It. sconfiggere, to rout; whence the substantive sconfitta, the original of all being Lat. configere, to fasten