DENEGATION
Den`e*ga"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. dénégation.]
Defn: Denial. [Obs.]
DENGUE
Den"gue, n. Etym: [See Note, below.] (Med.)
Defn: A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; — called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Note: This disease, when it first appeared in the British West India Islands, was called the dandy fever, from the stiffness and constraint which it grave to the limbs and body. The Spaniards of the neighboring islands mistook the term for their word dengue, denoting prudery, which might also well express stiffness, and hence the term dengue became, as last, the name of the disease. Tully.
DENIABLE
De*ni"a*ble, a. Etym: [See Deny.]
Defn: Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
DENIAL
De*ni"al, n. Etym: [See Deny.]
1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; — the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.