DEJECTION
\dɪd͡ʒˈɛkʃən], \dɪdʒˈɛkʃən], \d_ɪ_dʒ_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DEJECTION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A casting down; depression.
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The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
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Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
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A low condition; weakness; inability.
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The discharge of excrement.
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Faeces; excrement.
By Oddity Software
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A casting down; depression.
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The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
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Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
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A low condition; weakness; inability.
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The discharge of excrement.
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Faeces; excrement.
By Noah Webster.
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Lowness of spirits; melancholy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Melancholy, mental depression. 2. Matter passed from the bowels. 3. The passage of matter from the bowels, defecation.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Depression; lowness of spirits.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A casting down; melancholy; depression of mind; lowness of spirits caused by misfortune, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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from dejicere, dejectnm. (de, and Jacere,) 'to cast down.' Dejectio, Subductio, Hypagoge, Hypochoresis, Hypechoresis, Apopatus, Hypopatus, Hypophora. The expulsion of the faeces; -Ejectio, Egestio. Also, a faecal discharge or stool, -generally, however, with alvine prefixed, -as an alvine Dejection, Alvus viridis, Dejectio alvina. Also depression of spirits.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A condition of mental depression, a cast-down feeling.
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The act of having a movement from the bowels.
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The matter which is discharged in an intestinal evacuation. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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