deject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: dejects
form: dejecting
form: dejected
form: dejected
Etymology: From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”).
Senses: examples: text: […] 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 private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.
ref: 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 73:
text: On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.
ref: 1933, Arthur Melville Jordan, Educational Psychology, page 60:
synonyms: word: depress
word: get down
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: Make sad or dispirited.
examples: text: […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358:
text: 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.
ref: 1803, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The seasons; with the life of the author, page 107:
text: supplication, that is, entreatment, can be made more artificial if the speaker dejects both hands.
ref: 2014, Robert Toft, With Passionate Voice, page 198:
synonyms: downcast
throw down
glosses: To cast downward.
examples: text: ... 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 thing the good Spirit of God work sensibly in all our hearts, for God's holy name's sake.
ref: 1853, John Bradford, Aubrey Townsend, The Writings of John Bradford, M.A., page 67:
text: 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.
ref: 1863, Thomé Alvares de Andrade, The sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, from the Portuguese, page 274:
text: 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 Police Force as a whole and projects or dejects the image of the Police with the public.
ref: 1994, The Indian Police Journal - Volume 41, page 43:
text: Though she dejects the consideration, passionate spells Drawn from her bible kept him alive As well as kept their ungrateful brats lucky.
ref: 2009, J.W.C, Still in It Somewhere out There, page 31:
synonyms: abase
humiliate
put someone in their place
glosses: To debase or humble.
Derived terms: dejectable
dejecter
dejectly