3. An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; — opposed to victory.
DEFEATURE De*fea"ture, n. Etym: [OF. desfaiture a killing, disguising, prop., an undoing. See Defeat, and cf. Disfeature.]
1. Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl.
2. Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
DEFEATURED
De*fea"tured, p. p.
Defn: Changed in features; deformed. [R.]
Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De
Quincey.
DEFECATE Def"e*cate, a. Etym: [L. defaecatus, p. p. of defaecare to defecate; de- + faex, faecis, dregs, less.]
Defn: Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.;
refined; purified.
Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.
DEFECATE
Def"e*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defecated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Defecating.]
1. To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber. Boyle.