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Dignities
- noun - formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity"
- high office or rank or station; "he respected the dignity of the emissaries"
- the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure"
Disliking
- verb - have or feel a dislike or distaste for; "I really dislike this salesman"
Dispirits
- verb - lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
Dissimile
- - Comparison or illustration by contraries.
Dormition
- noun - celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th
Dormitive
- - Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
Dravidian
- noun - a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
- a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
Dualities
- noun - (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry
- (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory
- being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"
Duboisine
- - An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.
Ductility
- noun - the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets