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dejecter

UK/dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/

dejecter noun: something that casts down or diminishes.

Noun

dejecter (plural dejecters)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Something that casts down or diminishes.
    • The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.1631, “The illustration to the Frontispiece”, in Richard Berkeley, The Felicitie of Man, or, his Summum Bonum
    • But I found the Errhina or Medicines that purge the Head by the Nostrils […] to be more foolish than these: Likewise solutives or Purgers by Stool, and Bloud-lettings, to be cruel ones; because the dejecters of strength.1664, Jan Baptist van Helmont, translated by J. C., Van Helmont’s Workes, […], page 362

Forms of dejecter

pluraldejecters

Origin of dejecter

From deject (“cast down”) + -er.

Questions about dejecter

What does dejecter mean?
Dejecter means something that casts down or diminishes.
What part of speech is dejecter?
Dejecter is a noun.
How do you pronounce dejecter?
Dejecter is pronounced /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of dejecter?
The plural of dejecter is dejecters.

Words near dejecter in the dictionary

  1. dejecta
  2. dejectable
  3. dejected
  4. dejectedly
  5. dejectedness
  6. dejecter
  7. dejecters
  8. dejecteth
  9. dejecting
  10. dejection
  11. dejections

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