Defeudalize
(De*feu"dal*ize) v. t. To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Defiance
(De*fi"ance) n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge, fr. desfier to challenge, F. défier. See
Defy.]
1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons
to combat.
A war without a just defiance made.
Dryden.
Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.
Tennyson. 2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
He breathed defiance to my ears.
Shak. 3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance to thy kindness." Ford.
To bid defiance,
To set at defiance,
to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.
Defiant
(De*fi"ant) a. [Cf. F. défiant, p. pr. of défier. See Defy.] Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a
defiant spirit or act.
In attitude stern and defiant.
Longfellow. — De*fi"ant*ly, adv. — De*fi"ant*ness, n.
Defiatory
(De*fi"a*to*ry) a. [See Defy.] Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.
Defibrinate
(De*fi"bri*nate) v. t. To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
Defibrination
(De*fi`bri*na"tion) n. The act or process of depriving of fibrin.
Defibrinize
(De*fi"bri*nize) v. t. To defibrinate.
Deficience
(De*fi"cience) n. Same as Deficiency.
Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee
Is no deficience found.
Milton. Deficiency
(De*fi"cien*cy) n.; pl. Deficiencies [See Deficient.] The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
"A deficiency of blood." Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.),
the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short
of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
Deficient
(De*fi"cient) a. [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of deficere to be wanting. See Defect.] Wanting,
to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as,
deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.
Macaulay. Deficient number.
(Arith.) See under Abundant.
— De*fi"cient-ly, adv.