dejectionn.

/dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/

Forms: Also Middle English deieccion.

Etymology: < Old French dejection (14th cent. in Godefroy), < Latin dējectiōn-em , noun of action < dējicĕre (dēicĕre ) to cast down: see deject adj.

a. literal. The action of casting down; the fact of being cast down.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > throwing down

devolution1663

dejection1681

1681 H. Hallywell Melampronoea 13 Their [sc. the angels'] dejection and detrusion into the Caliginous Regions of the Air.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xiv. 155 A hole between each bracket for the convenient dejection of hot sand and lead.

†b. The throwing down or precipitation of a sediment. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > precipitation > of a sediment

dejection1594

1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 40 in Jewell House A means how to make deiection of the Lee or fæces of y^e best sallet oyle.

†2.

a. figurative. A casting down, deposing or lowering (in fortunes, condition, quality, etc.); humiliation, abasement. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun]

bismerc893

humiliationc1386

lowinga1398

dejectionc1450

avale?a1513

depression?1531

embasing1551

abasement1561

debasement1593

mortification1598

exinanitiona1631

demissiona1638

dejectment1656

depressure1656

dismounting1677

letting down1827

take-down1858

snubbing1861

scoring1893

deflation1958

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxii Se þerfore, lorde, my deieccion and my frailte.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (iv.) f. 60^v This deieccion and humiliacion might not the kynge knowe.

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster Prol. sig. A3 Such full blowne vanity he more doth loath Then base deiection .

1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 35 The Pope writ Letters to all Nobles..to assist Philip for the dejection of Iohn.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1845) i. 38 Adoration implies submission and dejection; so that, while we worship, we cast down ourselves.

†b. Astrology. (See quot. 1728.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > weak influence

descensionc1386

dejection1430

fall?1583

detrimenta1640

debility1647

debilitude1669

impediment1819

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. xxxiv But in the Bull is thy kingdom lorne, For therein is thy deiection.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dejection, Fall, in Astrology, is applied to the Planets, when in their Detriment, i. e. when they have lost of their Force, or Influence, by reason of their being in Opposition to some others, which check, and counteract them. Or it is used when a Planet is in a Sign opposite to that wherein it has its greatest Effect, or Influence, which is call'd its Exaltation. Thus, the sign Aries being the Exaltation of the Sun, the Sign Libra is its Dejection.

3. Depression of spirits; downcast or dejected condition.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun]

unlustOE

sorrowfulnessa1250

heavinessc1275

elengenessec1320

dullnessc1369

tristourc1380

murknessc1390

tristesse1390

faintness1398

ungladnessa1400

droopingc1400

heavity14..

dejectionc1450

terne?a1513

disconsolation1515

descence1526

marea1529

sadness?1537

dumpishness1548

unblessedness1549

dolorousness1553

ruefulness?1574

dolefulness1586

heartlessness1591

languishment1591

mopishness1598

soul-sickness1603

contristation1605

damp1606

gloominess1607

sableness1607

uncheerfulnessa1617

disconsolateness1624

cheerlessnessa1631

dejectedness1633

droopingness1635

disanimation1637

lowness1639

desponsion1641

disconsolacy1646

despondency1653

dispiritedness1654

chagrin1656

demission1656

jawfall1660

weightedness1660

depression1665

disconsolancy1665

grumness1675

despondence1676

despond1678

disheartenednessa1680

glumness1727

low1727

gloom1744

low-spiritedness1754

blue devils1756

black dog1776

humdudgeon1785

blue devilism1787

dispiritude1797

wishtnessc1800

downheartedness1801

blue-devilage1816

dispiritment1827

downcastness1827

depressiveness1832

dolorosity1835

lugubriosity1840

disconsolance1847

down1856

heavy-heartedness1860

lugubriousness1879

sullenness1885

low key1886

melancholia1896

burn-out1903

mokus1924

downness1927

mopiness1927

deflation1933

wallow1934

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. xi If ihesu hide him ande a litel forsake hem, þei falle into a compleynyng or into ouer gret deieccion.

a1631 J. Donne in Select. (1840) 120 To sink into a sordid melancholy, or irreligious dejection of spirit.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 301 What besides Of sorrow and dejection and despair Our frailtie can sustain.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1755 I. 165 That miserable dejection of spirits to which he was constitutionally subject.

1865 F. Parkman Huguenots vi, in Pioneers of France in New World 72 A deep dejection fell upon them.

†4. Lowering of force or strength; diminution or weakening (of the bodily strength or appetite).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health

failinga1382

sickeninga1382

wasting1398

downhielda1400

dissolutionc1400

debilitationa1492

defailing1502

effeeblishing1540

faintingc1540

effeeblishment1545

enervationa1575

feeblishing1574

declining1588

decay1609

flagging1611

labefaction1620

feebling1624

sinking1625

deading1645

dejection1652

fail1654

emperiment1674

decline1770

sapping1825

breakdown1858

attenuation1868

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

waningc900

littlingOE

lessingc1350

abating1370

diminutionc1374

minishinga1382

decrease1383

remissiona1398

shrinkinga1398

decreasing1398

adminishing?c1400

abbreviation?a1425

lessening?a1425

minoration?a1425

disincrease1430

abatement1433

restrictiona1450

batea1475

diminuation1477

limitation1483

abate1486

minute1495

minishment1533

mitigation1533

diminishinga1535

extenuation1542

slacking1542

reduce1549

diminishment1551

perditionc1555

debatementa1563

rebatement1573

obstriction1578

imminution1583

contracting1585

contraction1589

rabate1589

rebating1598

retrenchmentc1600

decession1606

ravalling1609

reducement1619

decrement1621

bating1629

shrivellinga1631

decretion1635

dejection1652

abater1653

rolling back1658

limiting1677

batement1679

reduction1695

depression1793

downdraw1813

descent1832

decess1854

lowering1868

shrinkage1873

dégringolade1883

minification1894

degrowth1920

downrating1950

1544 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) ix. f. xlix Many tymes foloweth deiection of the strength.

1652 J. French York-shire Spaw viii. 78 A manifest dejection of the appetite.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cvi. 15 Annot.) 537/2 A suddain and almost incredible dejection of strength.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 294 Dejection of Appetite.

1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dejection..applied also to depression, exhaustion, or prostration.

5. Medicine. Evacuation of the bowels, fæcal discharge.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]

purgationa1387

shitting1386

officec1395

outpassinga1398

subduction?a1425

easementa1438

cuckingc1440

siegea1475

evacuation?1533

stool1541

egestion1547

dunging1558

purging1579

stooling1599

cackc1600

motion1602

dejection1605

excretion1640

exclusion1646

purgament1650

exoneration1651

disenteration1654

orduring1654

crapping1673

passage1681

seat1697

opening1797

defecation1825

excreting1849

poopc1890

movement1891

job1899

shit?1927

crap1937

dump1942

soiling1943

gick1959

jobbie1981

pooh1981

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xvi. 82 Purgations which work..by deiections, by vomit, by sweates, and by urines.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 64 Where there is good use for it [sc. the choler]..to provoke Dejection.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 430 She..had frequent vomitings and dejections.

6. concrete. That which is dejected:

a. Fæcal discharge, excrement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]

gorec725

mixeOE

quedeeOE

turdeOE

dungOE

worthinga1225

dirta1300

drega1300

naturea1325

fen1340

ordurec1390

fimea1475

merd1486

stercory1496

avoidc1503

siegec1530

fex1540

excrement1541

hinder-fallings1561

gong1562

foil1565

voiding1577

pilgrim-salvec1580

egestion1583

shita1585

sir-reverence1592

purgament1597

filinga1622

faecesa1625

exclusion1646

faecality1653

tantadlin1654

surreverence1655

draught1659

excrementitiousness1660

jakes1701

old golda1704

dejection1728

dejecture1731

shitea1733

feculence1733

doll1825

crap1846

excreta1857

excretes1883

hockey1886

dejecta1887

job1899

number two1902

mess1903

ming1923

do1930

tomtit1930

pony1931

No. 21937

dog shit1944

Shinola1944

big job1945

biggie1953

doo-doo1954

doings1957

gick1959

pooh1960

pooh-pooh1962

dooky1965

poopy1970

whoopsie1973

pucky1980

jobbie1981

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dejection..is also, and that more ordinarily, applied to the Excrements themselves, thus evacuated.

1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 ii. 522 Fæcal dejections.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vii. 409 Dr. Hassall also found the Vibrios in the dejections of cholera.

b. Geology. Matter thrown out from a volcano.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > ejected volcanic material > [noun]

ejection1794

dejection1839

ejectamenta1863

ejecta1886

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxiii. 291 A greenish grey sandstone, evidently formed of volcanic submarine dejections.

1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria iii. 56 By the action of submarine volcanoes, such igneous dejections are supposed to have accumulated.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dejection
释义	dejectionn. /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/ Forms: Also Middle English deieccion. Etymology: < Old French dejection (14th cent. in Godefroy), < Latin dējectiōn-em , noun of action < dējicĕre (dēicĕre ) to cast down: see deject adj. 1. a. literal. The action of casting down; the fact of being cast down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > throwing down devolution1663 dejection1681 1681 H. Hallywell Melampronoea 13 Their [sc. the angels'] dejection and detrusion into the Caliginous Regions of the Air. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xiv. 155 A hole between each bracket for the convenient dejection of hot sand and lead. †b. The throwing down or precipitation of a sediment. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > precipitation > of a sediment dejection1594 1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 40 in Jewell House A means how to make deiection of the Lee or fæces of y^e best sallet oyle. †2. a. figurative. A casting down, deposing or lowering (in fortunes, condition, quality, etc.); humiliation, abasement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] bismerc893 humiliationc1386 lowinga1398 dejectionc1450 avale?a1513 depression?1531 embasing1551 abasement1561 debasement1593 mortification1598 exinanitiona1631 demissiona1638 dejectment1656 depressure1656 dismounting1677 letting down1827 take-down1858 snubbing1861 scoring1893 deflation1958 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxii Se þerfore, lorde, my deieccion and my frailte. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (iv.) f. 60^v This deieccion and humiliacion might not the kynge knowe. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster Prol. sig. A3 Such full blowne vanity he more doth loath Then base deiection . View more context for this quotation 1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 35 The Pope writ Letters to all Nobles..to assist Philip for the dejection of Iohn. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1845) i. 38 Adoration implies submission and dejection; so that, while we worship, we cast down ourselves. †b. Astrology. (See quot. 1728.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > weak influence descensionc1386 dejection1430 fall?1583 detrimenta1640 debility1647 debilitude1669 impediment1819 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. xxxiv But in the Bull is thy kingdom lorne, For therein is thy deiection. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dejection, Fall, in Astrology, is applied to the Planets, when in their Detriment, i. e. when they have lost of their Force, or Influence, by reason of their being in Opposition to some others, which check, and counteract them. Or it is used when a Planet is in a Sign opposite to that wherein it has its greatest Effect, or Influence, which is call'd its Exaltation. Thus, the sign Aries being the Exaltation of the Sun, the Sign Libra is its Dejection. 3. Depression of spirits; downcast or dejected condition. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] unlustOE sorrowfulnessa1250 heavinessc1275 elengenessec1320 dullnessc1369 tristourc1380 murknessc1390 tristesse1390 faintness1398 ungladnessa1400 droopingc1400 heavity14.. dejectionc1450 terne?a1513 disconsolation1515 descence1526 marea1529 sadness?1537 dumpishness1548 unblessedness1549 dolorousness1553 ruefulness?1574 dolefulness1586 heartlessness1591 languishment1591 mopishness1598 soul-sickness1603 contristation1605 damp1606 gloominess1607 sableness1607 uncheerfulnessa1617 disconsolateness1624 cheerlessnessa1631 dejectedness1633 droopingness1635 disanimation1637 lowness1639 desponsion1641 disconsolacy1646 despondency1653 dispiritedness1654 chagrin1656 demission1656 jawfall1660 weightedness1660 depression1665 disconsolancy1665 grumness1675 despondence1676 despond1678 disheartenednessa1680 glumness1727 low1727 gloom1744 low-spiritedness1754 blue devils1756 black dog1776 humdudgeon1785 blue devilism1787 dispiritude1797 wishtnessc1800 downheartedness1801 blue-devilage1816 dispiritment1827 downcastness1827 depressiveness1832 dolorosity1835 lugubriosity1840 disconsolance1847 down1856 heavy-heartedness1860 lugubriousness1879 sullenness1885 low key1886 melancholia1896 burn-out1903 mokus1924 downness1927 mopiness1927 deflation1933 wallow1934 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. xi If ihesu hide him ande a litel forsake hem, þei falle into a compleynyng or into ouer gret deieccion. a1631 J. Donne in Select. (1840) 120 To sink into a sordid melancholy, or irreligious dejection of spirit. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 301 What besides Of sorrow and dejection and despair Our frailtie can sustain. View more context for this quotation 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1755 I. 165 That miserable dejection of spirits to which he was constitutionally subject. 1865 F. Parkman Huguenots vi, in Pioneers of France in New World 72 A deep dejection fell upon them. †4. Lowering of force or strength; diminution or weakening (of the bodily strength or appetite). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health failinga1382 sickeninga1382 wasting1398 downhielda1400 dissolutionc1400 debilitationa1492 defailing1502 effeeblishing1540 faintingc1540 effeeblishment1545 enervationa1575 feeblishing1574 declining1588 decay1609 flagging1611 labefaction1620 feebling1624 sinking1625 deading1645 dejection1652 fail1654 emperiment1674 decline1770 sapping1825 breakdown1858 attenuation1868 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 1544 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) ix. f. xlix Many tymes foloweth deiection of the strength. 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw viii. 78 A manifest dejection of the appetite. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cvi. 15 Annot.) 537/2 A suddain and almost incredible dejection of strength. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 294 Dejection of Appetite. 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dejection..applied also to depression, exhaustion, or prostration. 5. Medicine. Evacuation of the bowels, fæcal discharge. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun] purgationa1387 shitting1386 officec1395 outpassinga1398 subduction?a1425 easementa1438 cuckingc1440 siegea1475 evacuation?1533 stool1541 egestion1547 dunging1558 purging1579 stooling1599 cackc1600 motion1602 dejection1605 excretion1640 exclusion1646 purgament1650 exoneration1651 disenteration1654 orduring1654 crapping1673 passage1681 seat1697 opening1797 defecation1825 excreting1849 poopc1890 movement1891 job1899 shit?1927 crap1937 dump1942 soiling1943 gick1959 jobbie1981 pooh1981 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xvi. 82 Purgations which work..by deiections, by vomit, by sweates, and by urines. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 64 Where there is good use for it [sc. the choler]..to provoke Dejection. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 430 She..had frequent vomitings and dejections. 6. concrete. That which is dejected: a. Fæcal discharge, excrement. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] gorec725 mixeOE quedeeOE turdeOE dungOE worthinga1225 dirta1300 drega1300 naturea1325 fen1340 ordurec1390 fimea1475 merd1486 stercory1496 avoidc1503 siegec1530 fex1540 excrement1541 hinder-fallings1561 gong1562 foil1565 voiding1577 pilgrim-salvec1580 egestion1583 shita1585 sir-reverence1592 purgament1597 filinga1622 faecesa1625 exclusion1646 faecality1653 tantadlin1654 surreverence1655 draught1659 excrementitiousness1660 jakes1701 old golda1704 dejection1728 dejecture1731 shitea1733 feculence1733 doll1825 crap1846 excreta1857 excretes1883 hockey1886 dejecta1887 job1899 number two1902 mess1903 ming1923 do1930 tomtit1930 pony1931 No. 21937 dog shit1944 Shinola1944 big job1945 biggie1953 doo-doo1954 doings1957 gick1959 pooh1960 pooh-pooh1962 dooky1965 poopy1970 whoopsie1973 pucky1980 jobbie1981 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dejection..is also, and that more ordinarily, applied to the Excrements themselves, thus evacuated. 1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 ii. 522 Fæcal dejections. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vii. 409 Dr. Hassall also found the Vibrios in the dejections of cholera. b. Geology. Matter thrown out from a volcano. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > ejected volcanic material > [noun] ejection1794 dejection1839 ejectamenta1863 ejecta1886 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxiii. 291 A greenish grey sandstone, evidently formed of volcanic submarine dejections. 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria iii. 56 By the action of submarine volcanoes, such igneous dejections are supposed to have accumulated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1430
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