Despairer to Destemper
Despairer
(De*spair"er) n. One who despairs.
Despairful
(De*spair"ful) a. Hopeless. [Obs.] Spenser.
Despairing
(De*spair"ing), a. Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. — De*spair"ing*ly, adv. —
De*spair"ing*ness, n.
Desparple
(De*spar"ple) v. t. & i. [OF. desparpeillier.] To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.
Despatch
(De*spatch") n. & v. Same as Dispatch.
Despecificate
(De`spe*cif"i*cate) v. t. [Pref. de- (intens.) + specificate.] To discriminate; to separate
according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.]
Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated.
Fitzed. Hall. Despecification
(De*spec`i*fi*ca"tion) n. Discrimination.
Despect
(De*spect") n. [L. despectus, fr. despicere. See Despite, n.] Contempt. [R.] Coleridge.
Despection
(De*spec"tion) n. [L. despectio.] A looking down; a despising. [R.] W. Montagu.
Despeed
(De*speed") v. t. To send hastily. [Obs.]
Despeeded certain of their crew.
Speed. Despend
(De*spend") v. t. To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [Obs.]
Some noble men in Spain can despend £50,000.
Howell. Desperado
(Des`per*a"do) n.; pl. Desperadoes [OSp. desperado, p. p. of desperar, fr. L. desperare.
See Desperate.] A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a
wild ruffian.
Desperate
(Des"per*ate) a. [L. desperatus, p. p. of desperare. See Despair, and cf. Desperado.]
1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.]
I am desperate of obtaining her.
Shak. 2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as,
a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a
desperate effort. "Desperate expedients." Macaulay.
4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; — used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
A desperate offendress against nature.
Shak.
The most desperate of reprobates.
Macaulay. Syn. — Hopeless; despairing; desponding; rash; headlong; precipitate; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn; mad; furious; frantic.
Desperate
(Des"per*ate), n. One desperate or hopeless. [Obs.]
