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▪ I. defeature, n. Obs. or arch.|dɪˈfiːtjʊə(r)|
Also 7 defaiture, defeiture, diffeature.
[a. OF. deffaiture, desfaiture, f. desfaire to undo, etc., after faiture:—L. factūra making, doing. In Eng. conformed in spelling to defeat, and in sense 2 associated with feature.]
†1. Undoing, ruin; = defeat n. 1. Obs.
1592Daniel Compl. Rosamond, The Day before the Night of my Defeature. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vi. 17 For their first loves defeature. 1615Life Lady Jane Grey B iij b, After her most vnfortunate marriage and the utter defaiture almost of her name and honours. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle iii. 900 To make defeature Of his estate in blisse he doth intend.
2. Disfigurement, defacement; marring of features. arch. Cf. defeat v. 3.
Now chiefly an echo of the Shaksperian use.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 299 Carefull houres with times deformed hand, Haue written strange defeatures in my face. Ibid. ii. i. 98. 1592 ― Ven. & Ad. 736 To mingle beauty with infirmities, And pure perfection with impure defeature. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) V. 312 All the defeatures of guilt..stood on the brow of the former. 1829Southey Colloq. Society Ded. i. iv, Ere heart-hardening bigotry..With sour defeature marr'd his countenance. 1842Tait's Mag. IX. 354 To see the veil uplifted from the deformities and defeatures of my fellow-creatures.
†3. Frustration; = defeat n. 2. Obs.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 14 The defeature and discouerie of those horrible Traitors. 1668E. Kemp Reasons for Use of Ch. Prayers 10 Have they had no disappointments, no defeatures? 1681Glanvill Sadducismus i. (1726) 31 The Defeature of its Purposes.
†4. Defeat in battle or contest. Obs.
1598Florio, Soffratto, a defeature or ouerthrow. 1601Holland Pliny II. 481 After the defeiture of K. Perseus. 1623Massinger Bondman iv. i, Have you acquainted her with the defeature Of the Carthaginians. 1810Southey Kehama xi. ii, Complaining of defeature twice sustain'd. 1834Fraser's Mag. X. 417 This comfort we to our defeature lend.
▪ II. deˈfeature, v.
[f. prec. n., sense 2. Cf. OF. deffaiturer (13th c. in Godef.), with which however the Eng. word is not historically connected.]
trans. To disfigure, deface, mar the features of. Hence deˈfeatured ppl. a.
1792J. Fennell Proc. at Paris (L.), Events defeatured by exaggeration. 1818Blackw. Mag. II. 493 A..face, defeatured horribly. 1863Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis II. 137 Ruined defeatured shapes of Beauty. |