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Webster 1913 Edition
Deject
De-ject′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dejected
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dejecting
.] 1.
To cast down.
[Obs. or Archaic]
Christ
dejected
himself even unto the hells. Udall.
Sometimes she
dejects
her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.
2.
To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.
Nor think, to die
dejects
my lofty mind. Pope.
De-ject′
,Adj.
[L.
dejectus
, p. p.] Dejected.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Deject
DEJECT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To cast down; usually, to cast down the countenance; to cause to fall with grief; to make to look sad or grieved, or to express discouragement.But gloomy were his eyes, dejected was his face.
2.
To depress the spirits; to sink; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind.
DEJECT
,Adj.
Definition 2024
deject
deject
English
Verb
deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)
- (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
- Benjamin Franklin
- I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected, seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
- Benjamin Franklin
- (obsolete, transitive) To cast down.
- Udall
- Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
- Fuller
- Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
- Udall
Translations
Quotations
- 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature (page 215)
- Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism.
- 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60)
- On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.