Word Meanings - CONTRIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make sad. To deject and contrist myself. Sterne.

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• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• CONTRIST
  To make sad. To deject and contrist myself. Sterne.
• DEJECTURE
  That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.
• DEJECTLY
  Dejectedly.
• MYSELF
  I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.
• STERNER
  A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
• STERNED
  Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
• DEJECTER
  One who casts down, or dejects.
• CONTRISTATE
  To make sorrowful. Bacon.
• DEJECTA
  Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
• DEJECT
  1. To cast down. 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;
• STERNEBRA
  One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a.
• DEJECTED
  Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.
• PINK-STERNED
  Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
• WESTERNER
  A native or inhabitant of the west.