deject
One who is lowly or abject.
Noun
- One who is lowly or abject.
- Lovers, lovers, football brothers; rejects, dejects, clowns and crakaz: boot him one, in the nakaz! - 1994, Tom Pickard, Tiepin Eros: New & Selected Poems, page 72:
- Not at all short of but always with and through perception and words, the sublime is a something added that expands us, overstrains us, and causes us to be both here, as dejects, and there, as others and sparkling. -...
- All are dejects, and all are drawn to the very places and things that threaten their own destruction. - 2013, Aalya Ahmad, Sean Moreland, Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror, page 236:
- A waste product.
- ... the bacteriological examination of the dejects of all persons presenting choleraic symptoms and of all persons who have been exposed to infection and who have loose and frequent discharges from the bowels; the...
- Along the 90 kilometers of the Tiete river in the greater São Paulo region, it receives a huge amount of dejects, both industrial and human (the latter, dejects collected by sewer systems, dumped untreated or with...
- The region is characterized by an intense intervention of anthropogenic activities, existence of more than 1.700 oil wells, dutes, storage and transport structures of gas and oil, ponds for stabilization and treatment...
Origin
From Old French dejeter, from Latin dēiectus, past participle of dēicere (“to throw down”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + iacere (“to throw”).
Forms
Derived
Verb
- Make sad or dispirited.
- […] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in...
- On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure. - 1933, Arthur Melville Jordan, Educational Psychology, page 60:
Synonyms: depress get down aggrieve attrist begloom begrieve besorrow grieve pain bring down come down on contristate darken dash deject desolate dispirit engrieve forset grieven moan oppress repent rue
- To cast downward.
- […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. - 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358:
- Princely wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful eye; and from the hand Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy, and hush'd the clamour of the busy world. - 1803, James Thomson,...
- supplication, that is, entreatment, can be made more artificial if the speaker dejects both hands. - 2014, Robert Toft, With Passionate Voice, page 198:
Synonyms: downcast throw down
- To debase or humble.
- ... as also we might have more feeling and sense of our sweet Saviour Jesus Christ, by the humbling and dejecting of us, thereby to make us, as more desirous of him, so him more sweet and pleasant unto us: the which...
- I adore thee, O divine and amiable hand! that comfortest me by chastising me, that strengthenest me by afflicting me, that elevatest me by dejecting me, and that givest me life by mortifying me. - 1863, Thomé Alvares de...
- As a person sitting over the counter in a bank, represents the bank by virtue of his assignment, projects or dejects the image of the bank as a whole; the policeman on duty at the police station also represents the...
Synonyms: abase humiliate put someone in their place