dejectadj.

Forms: Also 1500s -gecte.

Etymology: < Latin dējectus, past participle of dējicĕre (dēicĕre ) to throw down, < de- prefix 1a + jacĕre to throw. (In Old French des-, degiet, -get, -git.)Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈject.

Obsolete or archaic.

1. As past participle. Thrown down, cast down; †cast away, rejected: see deject v.

ΘΚΠ

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

deject1430

dejected1682

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptuously rejected

exploded1563

deject1575

conculcate1583

scouted1810

spurned1850

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xvii Thorowen and deiect in a pyt horryble.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 37 b/1 Lucifer whiche was dejecte and caste out of heven.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 44^v He..was deiect with schame fra all honour.

1819 H. Busk Vestriad v. 513 Here on Patroclus' corse deject he lies.

a. As participial adj. Downcast, dispirited, dejected adj.

ΘΚΠ

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

ungladc888

wearyc888

drearyc1000

dreary-moodOE

heavyc1000

unmerryOE

droopy?c1225

mournc1275

sada1300

languishinga1325

amayedc1330

matec1330

unlightc1330

unblissful1340

lowa1382

mishappyc1390

dullc1393

elengely1393

droopinga1400

heavy-hearteda1400

joylessa1400

sytefula1400

mornifc1400

tristy?c1400

lightless?1406

heartlessa1413

tristc1420

amatec1425

languoring?c1425

mirthlessc1430

heavisome1435

darkc1440

gloomingc1440

comfortlessc1460

amateda1470

chermatc1475

tristfula1492

lustless?1507

dolorous1513

ruthful1513

downcast1521

deject1528

heartsicka1529

lumpisha1535

coolc1540

dowlyc1540

glum1547

discouraged1548

uncheerfulc1555

dumpish1560

out of heart1565

sadded1566

amoped1573

tristive1578

desolated1580

dejected1581

à la mort1586

delightless1589

afflicted1590

gladless1590

groanful1590

gloomya1593

muddy1592

sitheful1592

cloudy1594

leaden-hearted1596

disconsolated1598

clum1599

life-weary1599

spiritless1600

dusky1602

chop-fallen1604

flat1604

disanimated1605

jaw-fallen1605

moped1606

chap-fallen1608

decheerful1608

uncheerful1612

lacklustrea1616

pulled1616

dumpya1618

depressed1621

head-hung1632

grum1640

downa1644

dispirited1647

down-at-mouth1649

down in (rarely of) the mouth1649

unhearted1650

sunlessa1658

sadful1658

unlightened1659

chagrin1665

saddened1665

damp1667

moping1674

desponding1688

tristitious1694

unenjoying1697

unraised1697

unheartya1699

unked1698

despondent1699

dismal1705

unjoyful1709

unrejoiced1714

dreara1717

disheartened1720

mumpish1721

unrejoicing1726

downhearted1742

out of spirits1745

chagrineda1754

low-spirited1753

sombrea1767

black-blooded1771

glumpy1780

oorie1787

sombrous1789

morose1791

Novemberish1793

glumpish1800

mopeful1800

die-away1802

blue-devilish1804

blue-devilled1807

malagrugrous1818

down in the hip1826

yonderly1828

sunshineless1831

downfaced1832

broody1851

in a (or the) trough1856

blue-devilly1871

drooped1873

glummy1884

pippy1886

humpy1889

pipped1914

lousy1933

pissed1943

crappy1956

doomy1961

bummed1970

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. b viii They were so abasshed and deiecte, That once to hisse they were nott able.

a1555 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 228 Seing you are gods own dearling..Be not of a deiect mind for these temptations.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 158 And I of Ladies most deiect and wretched.

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xi. 59 Be not deiect in Miserie.

1863 ‘W. Lancaster’ Praeterita 87 Deject and doubtful thus I forge quaint fears.

b. Cast down from one's position, lowered in fortunes; lowered in character, abject, abased.

ΘΚΠ

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

dejectc1528

broken1535

abased1554

come1564

downfallen1575

snubbed1583

crestfallen1589

humiliate1593

plume-plucked1597

low-broughta1599

chop-fallen1604

chap-fallen1608

dejected1608

humbleda1616

unprided1628

diminished1667

mortified1710

small1771

humiliated1782

squelched1837

grovelleda1845

sat-upon1873

comedown1886

deflated1894

zapped1962

c1528 Everyman (1961) 55 Lyke traytours deiecte.

1605 Play Stucley in R. Simpson School of Shakspere (1878) I. 234 Is't possible that Stukly, so deject In England, lives in Spain in such respect.

a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr/2 What can be a more deject spirit in man, then to lay his hands under every ones horses feet.

1820 T. L. Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 324 The beggar being, for the most part, a king deject.

†c. Astrology. (See quot. 1594.) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xxxvi. f. 232 Such houses as haue no familiaritie with the Horoscop or ascendent..are said to be slow and deiect.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

dejectv.

/dɪˈdʒɛkt/

Forms: (In Scottish, 1500s deiekk, 1500s– dejeck.)

Etymology: < Latin dēject-, participial stem of dējicĕre to throw or cast down: see deject adj.

a. transitive. To throw or cast down; to cause to fall down, overthrow. archaic or Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > throw down

to throw adownc1275

downcastc1390

dejectc1420

cast1481

to cast down1535

terre1586

to throw down1714

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > cast down

warpc1175

acastc1225

to throw downa1250

foldc1275

casta1300

throwc1330

waltc1400

shootc1480

to cast down1530

to fling down1587

stern1599

deject1627

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 423 Take of the laures bayes..in sething water hem dejecte.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iii. xv. f. 36^v/1 Scho hes deieckit me at thy feit.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War 125 Their people..whiche were deiected and dryuen downe from the sayd rocke.

1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xli. §7 This Citie..by the furious outrages of the Scots and Picts was deiected.

a1638 J. Mede Paraphr. 2 Peter iii. in Wks. (1672) iii. 615 To be exiled and dejected from those high mansions.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. viii. 107 Looking at her dejected pillar.

b. To bend down.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bend down

bowc1275

declinea1400

incline?a1425

deject1601

to bend the heada1652

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxii. 531 What part soeuer of it [the vine] is dejected and driuen downward, or els bound and tied fast, the same ordinarily beareth fruit.

1605 T. Heywood If you know not Me sig. B4^v It becomes not you being a Princesse, to deiect your knee.

1625 Modell of Wit 62 b Deiecting her head into her bosome.

1824 R. Heber in Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. June 642 The mute swain..With arms enfolded, and dejected head.

c. To cast down (the eyes).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > turn (eyes) downwards

to turn downa1425

deject1612

lower1721

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 200 One hauing climb'd some roofe..From thence vpon the earth deiects his humble eye.

1727 J. Thomson Summer 59 Princely Wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful Eye.

1768 Woman of Honor III. 264 Fixing his eyes on Clara, who modestly dejected her's.

†2. To cast away, dismiss, reject. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject > a statement, arguments, etc.

reject1426

deject1530

non-subscribe1662

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 510/1 I dejecte, I caste a waye, je dejecte.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 Gyf sic vordis suld be disusit or deiekkit.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iii. 153 These perswacions..he vtterly deiected.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 544 Whether your humiliation may not yet..cause him to deject, and take off his judgements.

†3. figurative. To cast down from high estate or dignity, depose; to lower in condition or character, to abase, humble. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]

anitherOE

fellOE

lowc1175

to lay lowc1225

to set adownc1275

snuba1340

meekc1350

depose1377

aneantizea1382

to bring lowa1387

declinea1400

meekenc1400

to pull downc1425

avalec1430

to-gradea1440

to put downc1440

humble1484

alow1494

deject?1521

depress1526

plucka1529

to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533

to bring down1535

to bring basec1540

adbass1548

diminish1560

afflict1561

to take down1562

to throw down1567

debase1569

embase1571

diminute1575

to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576

exinanite1577

to take (a person) a peg lower1589

to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589

disbasea1592

to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592

comb-cut1593

unpuff1598

atterr1605

dismount1608

annihilate1610

crest-fall1611

demit1611

pulla1616

avilea1617

to put a scorn on, upon1633

mortify1639

dimit1658

to put a person's pipe out1720

to let down1747

to set down1753

humiliate1757

to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789

start1821

squabash1822

to wipe a person's eye1823

to crop the feathers of1827

embarrass1839

to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

to cut out of all feather1865

to sit on ——1868

to turn down1870

to score off1882

to do (a person) in the eye1891

puncture1908

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

to cut down to size1927

flatten1932

to slap (a person) down1938

punk1963

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)]

vile1297

supplanta1382

to bring lowa1387

revilea1393

gradea1400

villain1412

abject?a1439

to-gradea1440

vilifyc1450

villainy1483

disparage1496

degradea1500

deject?1521

disgraduate1528

disgress1528

regrade1534

base1538

diminute1575

lessen1579

to turn down1581

to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593

disesteem1594

degender1596

unnoble1598

disrank1599

reduce1599

couch1602

disthrone1603

displume1606

unplume1621

disnoble1622

disworth?1623

villainize1623

unglory1626

ungraduate1633

disennoble1645

vilicate1646

degraduate1649

bemean1651

deplume1651

lower1653

cheapen1654

dethrone1659

diminish1667

scoundrel1701

sink1706

demean1715

abjectate1731

unglorifya1740

unmagnify1747

undignify1768

to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819

dishero1838

misdemean1843

downgrade1892

demote1919

objectify1973

?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Biv^v The coyne auaunceth, nede dothe the name deiect.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. 1 Pet. II. 14 His delyght is in..suche as deiecte them selues.

1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 503 Being loath to deiect them whom he had once aduanced.

1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 165 Where the superior makes an Inferior officer, he may deject him at his pleasure.

1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 185 Faln Mans dejecting himself may be called Humiliation.

†4. To reduce the force or strength of, to weaken, lessen. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]

littleeOE

anitherOE

wanzelOE

lessc1225

slakea1300

littenc1300

aslakec1314

adminisha1325

allayc1330

settle1338

low1340

minisha1382

reprovea1382

abatea1398

rebatea1398

subtlea1398

alaskia1400

forlyten?a1400

imminish14..

lessenc1410

diminish1417

repress?a1425

assuagec1430

scarcec1440

small1440

underslakec1440

alessa1450

debate?c1450

batec1460

decreasec1470

appetisse1474

alow1494

mince1499

perswage?1504

remita1513

inless?1521

attenuate1530

weaken1530

defray1532

mitigate1532

minorate1534

narrow?1548

diminuec1550

extenuate1555

amain1578

exolve1578

base1581

dejecta1586

amoinder1588

faint1598

qualify1604

contract1605

to pull down1607

shrivel1609

to take down1610

disaugment1611

impoverish1611

shrink1628

decoct1629

persway1631

unflame1635

straiten1645

depress1647

reduce1649

detract1654

minuate1657

alloy1661

lower?1662

sinka1684

retreat1690

nip1785

to drive down1840

minify1866

to knock down1867

to damp down1869

scale1887

mute1891

clip1938

to roll back1942

to cut back1943

downscale1945

downrate1958

slim1963

downshift1972

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ii5^v Though in strength exceedingly deiected.

1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 190 One disadvantage..impeacheth and dejecteth all other their forces.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 22 It doth very greatly deiect their appetite.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician i. 15 The Appetite..is often dejected in Consumptive Persons.

a. To depress in spirits; to cast down, dispirit, dishearten. (The ordinary current sense.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)]

drearya1300

discomfortc1325

batec1380

to cast downa1382

to throw downa1382

dullc1386

faintc1386

discomfita1425

discourage1436

sinkc1440

mischeera1450

discheerc1454

amatea1500

bedowa1522

damp1548

quail1548

dash1550

exanimate1552

afflict1561

dank1565

disanimate1565

sadden1565

languish1566

deject1581

dumpc1585

unheart1593

mope1596

chill1597

sour1600

disgallant1601

disheart1603

dishearten1606

fainten1620

depress1624

sullen1628

tristitiate1628

disliven1631

dampen1633

weigh1640

out-spirit1643

dispirit1647

flat1649

funeralize1654

hearta1658

disencourage1659

attrist1680

flatten1683

dismalizec1735

blue-devil1812

out-heart1845

downweigh1851

to get down1861

frigidize1868

languor1891

downcast1914

neg1987

1581 [implied in: J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 115 So that he was deiected and compelled to weepe for very many, which had fallen. (at dejected adj. 3)].

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 525 Good authours deiect me too-too much, and quaile my courage.

1625 J. Mede Let. 25 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 204 The King was much dejected by a Lettre received from Denmark.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xx. 101 To deject and contrist myself with so sad and melancholy an account.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 8 Nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. x. 68 The things which do not disturb her temper, may, perhaps, deject her spirits.

†b. intransitive (for reflexive). To be dejected. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)]

heavyOE

fallOE

droopena1225

lourc1290

droopc1330

to abate one's countenance (also cheer)a1350

dullc1374

fainta1375

languora1375

languisha1382

afflicta1393

gloppen?a1400

weary1434

appalc1450

to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450

peak1580

dumpc1585

mopea1592

sink1603

bate1607

deject1644

despond1655

alamort?1705

sadden1718

dismal1780

munge1790

mug1828

to get one's tail down1853

to have (also get) the pip1881

shadow1888

to have (one's) ass in a sling1960

1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 72 Deject not, O my soule, nor let thy thoughts despaire.

6. intransitive. To bend downwards.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)]

hangOE

to hang outc1400

stoop1422

overhang1567

overreach1610

beetlea1616

shelvea1616

oversail1674

impend1780

deject1825

whave1847

overtopple1855

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 323 It stands, or rather dejects, over an elderly pair of wooden gates.

Derivatives

deˈjecting adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing

darkOE

unmerryOE

deathlyc1225

dolefulc1275

elengec1275

dreicha1300

coolc1350

cloudyc1374

sada1375

colda1400

deadlya1400

joylessc1400

unjoyful?c1400

disconsolatea1413

mournfula1425

funeralc1425

uncheerfulc1449

dolent1489

dolesome1533

heavy-hearted1555

glum1558

ungladsome1558

black1562

pleasureless1567

dern1570

plaintive?1570

glummish1573

cheerless1575

comfortless1576

wintry1579

glummy1580

funebral1581

discouraging1584

dernful?1591

murk1596

recomfortless1596

sullen1597

amating1600

lugubrious1601

dusky1602

sable1603

funebrial1604

damping1607

mortifying1611

tearful?1611

uncouth1611

dulsome1613

luctual1613

dismal1617

winterous1617

unked1620

mopish1621

godforsaken?1623

uncheerly1627

funebrious1630

lugubrous1632

drearisome1633

unheartsome1637

feral1641

drear1645

darksome1649

sadding1649

saddening1650

disheartening1654

funebrous1654

luctiferous1656

mestifical1656

tristifical1656

sooty1657

dreary1667

tenebrose1677

clouded1682

tragicala1700

funereal1707

gloomy1710

sepulchrala1711

dumpishc1717

bleaka1719

depressive1727

lugubre1727

muzzy1728

dispiriting1733

uncheery1760

unconsolatory1760

unjolly1764

Decemberly1765

sombre1768

uncouthie1768

depressing1772

unmirthful1782

sombrous1789

disanimating1791

Decemberish1793

grey1794

uncheering1796

ungenial1796

uncomforting1798

disencouraginga1806

stern1812

chilling1815

uncheered1817

dejecting1818

mopey1821

desponding1828

wisht1829

leadening1835

unsportful1837

demoralizing1840

Novemberish1840

frigid1844

morne1844

tragic1848

wet-blanketty1848

morgue1850

ungladdeneda1851

adusk1856

smileless1858

soul-sick1858

Novemberya1864

saturnine1863

down1873

lacklustre1883

Heaven-abandoneda1907

downbeat1952

doomy1967

1818 Mrs. E. H. Iliff Poems (ed. 2) 20 The mien assuming of dejecting care.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	deject
释义	dejectadj. Forms: Also 1500s -gecte. Etymology: < Latin dējectus, past participle of dējicĕre (dēicĕre ) to throw down, < de- prefix 1a + jacĕre to throw. (In Old French des-, degiet, -get, -git.)Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈject. Obsolete or archaic. 1. As past participle. Thrown down, cast down; †cast away, rejected: see deject v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [adjective] > thrown down deject1430 dejected1682 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptuously rejected exploded1563 deject1575 conculcate1583 scouted1810 spurned1850 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xvii Thorowen and deiect in a pyt horryble. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 37 b/1 Lucifer whiche was dejecte and caste out of heven. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 44^v He..was deiect with schame fra all honour. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad v. 513 Here on Patroclus' corse deject he lies. 2. a. As participial adj. Downcast, dispirited, dejected adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] ungladc888 wearyc888 drearyc1000 dreary-moodOE heavyc1000 unmerryOE droopy?c1225 mournc1275 sada1300 languishinga1325 amayedc1330 matec1330 unlightc1330 unblissful1340 lowa1382 mishappyc1390 dullc1393 elengely1393 droopinga1400 heavy-hearteda1400 joylessa1400 sytefula1400 mornifc1400 tristy?c1400 lightless?1406 heartlessa1413 tristc1420 amatec1425 languoring?c1425 mirthlessc1430 heavisome1435 darkc1440 gloomingc1440 comfortlessc1460 amateda1470 chermatc1475 tristfula1492 lustless?1507 dolorous1513 ruthful1513 downcast1521 deject1528 heartsicka1529 lumpisha1535 coolc1540 dowlyc1540 glum1547 discouraged1548 uncheerfulc1555 dumpish1560 out of heart1565 sadded1566 amoped1573 tristive1578 desolated1580 dejected1581 à la mort1586 delightless1589 afflicted1590 gladless1590 groanful1590 gloomya1593 muddy1592 sitheful1592 cloudy1594 leaden-hearted1596 disconsolated1598 clum1599 life-weary1599 spiritless1600 dusky1602 chop-fallen1604 flat1604 disanimated1605 jaw-fallen1605 moped1606 chap-fallen1608 decheerful1608 uncheerful1612 lacklustrea1616 pulled1616 dumpya1618 depressed1621 head-hung1632 grum1640 downa1644 dispirited1647 down-at-mouth1649 down in (rarely of) the mouth1649 unhearted1650 sunlessa1658 sadful1658 unlightened1659 chagrin1665 saddened1665 damp1667 moping1674 desponding1688 tristitious1694 unenjoying1697 unraised1697 unheartya1699 unked1698 despondent1699 dismal1705 unjoyful1709 unrejoiced1714 dreara1717 disheartened1720 mumpish1721 unrejoicing1726 downhearted1742 out of spirits1745 chagrineda1754 low-spirited1753 sombrea1767 black-blooded1771 glumpy1780 oorie1787 sombrous1789 morose1791 Novemberish1793 glumpish1800 mopeful1800 die-away1802 blue-devilish1804 blue-devilled1807 malagrugrous1818 down in the hip1826 yonderly1828 sunshineless1831 downfaced1832 broody1851 in a (or the) trough1856 blue-devilly1871 drooped1873 glummy1884 pippy1886 humpy1889 pipped1914 lousy1933 pissed1943 crappy1956 doomy1961 bummed1970 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. b viii They were so abasshed and deiecte, That once to hisse they were nott able. a1555 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 228 Seing you are gods own dearling..Be not of a deiect mind for these temptations. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 158 And I of Ladies most deiect and wretched. View more context for this quotation 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xi. 59 Be not deiect in Miserie. 1863 ‘W. Lancaster’ Praeterita 87 Deject and doubtful thus I forge quaint fears. b. Cast down from one's position, lowered in fortunes; lowered in character, abject, abased. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adjective] dejectc1528 broken1535 abased1554 come1564 downfallen1575 snubbed1583 crestfallen1589 humiliate1593 plume-plucked1597 low-broughta1599 chop-fallen1604 chap-fallen1608 dejected1608 humbleda1616 unprided1628 diminished1667 mortified1710 small1771 humiliated1782 squelched1837 grovelleda1845 sat-upon1873 comedown1886 deflated1894 zapped1962 c1528 Everyman (1961) 55 Lyke traytours deiecte. 1605 Play Stucley in R. Simpson School of Shakspere (1878) I. 234 Is't possible that Stukly, so deject In England, lives in Spain in such respect. a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr/2 What can be a more deject spirit in man, then to lay his hands under every ones horses feet. 1820 T. L. Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 324 The beggar being, for the most part, a king deject. †c. Astrology. (See quot. 1594.) Obsolete. ΚΠ 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xxxvi. f. 232 Such houses as haue no familiaritie with the Horoscop or ascendent..are said to be slow and deiect. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021). dejectv. /dɪˈdʒɛkt/ Forms: (In Scottish, 1500s deiekk, 1500s– dejeck.) Etymology: < Latin dēject-, participial stem of dējicĕre to throw or cast down: see deject adj. 1. a. transitive. To throw or cast down; to cause to fall down, overthrow. archaic or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > throw down to throw adownc1275 downcastc1390 dejectc1420 cast1481 to cast down1535 terre1586 to throw down1714 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > cast down warpc1175 acastc1225 to throw downa1250 foldc1275 casta1300 throwc1330 waltc1400 shootc1480 to cast down1530 to fling down1587 stern1599 deject1627 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 423 Take of the laures bayes..in sething water hem dejecte. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iii. xv. f. 36^v/1 Scho hes deieckit me at thy feit. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War 125 Their people..whiche were deiected and dryuen downe from the sayd rocke. 1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xli. §7 This Citie..by the furious outrages of the Scots and Picts was deiected. a1638 J. Mede Paraphr. 2 Peter iii. in Wks. (1672) iii. 615 To be exiled and dejected from those high mansions. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. viii. 107 Looking at her dejected pillar. b. To bend down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bend down bowc1275 declinea1400 incline?a1425 deject1601 to bend the heada1652 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxii. 531 What part soeuer of it [the vine] is dejected and driuen downward, or els bound and tied fast, the same ordinarily beareth fruit. 1605 T. Heywood If you know not Me sig. B4^v It becomes not you being a Princesse, to deiect your knee. 1625 Modell of Wit 62 b Deiecting her head into her bosome. 1824 R. Heber in Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. June 642 The mute swain..With arms enfolded, and dejected head. c. To cast down (the eyes). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > turn (eyes) downwards to turn downa1425 deject1612 lower1721 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 200 One hauing climb'd some roofe..From thence vpon the earth deiects his humble eye. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 59 Princely Wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful Eye. 1768 Woman of Honor III. 264 Fixing his eyes on Clara, who modestly dejected her's. †2. To cast away, dismiss, reject. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject > a statement, arguments, etc. reject1426 deject1530 non-subscribe1662 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 510/1 I dejecte, I caste a waye, je dejecte. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 Gyf sic vordis suld be disusit or deiekkit. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iii. 153 These perswacions..he vtterly deiected. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 544 Whether your humiliation may not yet..cause him to deject, and take off his judgements. †3. figurative. To cast down from high estate or dignity, depose; to lower in condition or character, to abase, humble. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)] vile1297 supplanta1382 to bring lowa1387 revilea1393 gradea1400 villain1412 abject?a1439 to-gradea1440 vilifyc1450 villainy1483 disparage1496 degradea1500 deject?1521 disgraduate1528 disgress1528 regrade1534 base1538 diminute1575 lessen1579 to turn down1581 to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593 disesteem1594 degender1596 unnoble1598 disrank1599 reduce1599 couch1602 disthrone1603 displume1606 unplume1621 disnoble1622 disworth?1623 villainize1623 unglory1626 ungraduate1633 disennoble1645 vilicate1646 degraduate1649 bemean1651 deplume1651 lower1653 cheapen1654 dethrone1659 diminish1667 scoundrel1701 sink1706 demean1715 abjectate1731 unglorifya1740 unmagnify1747 undignify1768 to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819 dishero1838 misdemean1843 downgrade1892 demote1919 objectify1973 ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Biv^v The coyne auaunceth, nede dothe the name deiect. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. 1 Pet. II. 14 His delyght is in..suche as deiecte them selues. 1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 503 Being loath to deiect them whom he had once aduanced. 1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 165 Where the superior makes an Inferior officer, he may deject him at his pleasure. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 185 Faln Mans dejecting himself may be called Humiliation. †4. To reduce the force or strength of, to weaken, lessen. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] littleeOE anitherOE wanzelOE lessc1225 slakea1300 littenc1300 aslakec1314 adminisha1325 allayc1330 settle1338 low1340 minisha1382 reprovea1382 abatea1398 rebatea1398 subtlea1398 alaskia1400 forlyten?a1400 imminish14.. lessenc1410 diminish1417 repress?a1425 assuagec1430 scarcec1440 small1440 underslakec1440 alessa1450 debate?c1450 batec1460 decreasec1470 appetisse1474 alow1494 mince1499 perswage?1504 remita1513 inless?1521 attenuate1530 weaken1530 defray1532 mitigate1532 minorate1534 narrow?1548 diminuec1550 extenuate1555 amain1578 exolve1578 base1581 dejecta1586 amoinder1588 faint1598 qualify1604 contract1605 to pull down1607 shrivel1609 to take down1610 disaugment1611 impoverish1611 shrink1628 decoct1629 persway1631 unflame1635 straiten1645 depress1647 reduce1649 detract1654 minuate1657 alloy1661 lower?1662 sinka1684 retreat1690 nip1785 to drive down1840 minify1866 to knock down1867 to damp down1869 scale1887 mute1891 clip1938 to roll back1942 to cut back1943 downscale1945 downrate1958 slim1963 downshift1972 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ii5^v Though in strength exceedingly deiected. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 190 One disadvantage..impeacheth and dejecteth all other their forces. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 22 It doth very greatly deiect their appetite. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician i. 15 The Appetite..is often dejected in Consumptive Persons. 5. a. To depress in spirits; to cast down, dispirit, dishearten. (The ordinary current sense.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] drearya1300 discomfortc1325 batec1380 to cast downa1382 to throw downa1382 dullc1386 faintc1386 discomfita1425 discourage1436 sinkc1440 mischeera1450 discheerc1454 amatea1500 bedowa1522 damp1548 quail1548 dash1550 exanimate1552 afflict1561 dank1565 disanimate1565 sadden1565 languish1566 deject1581 dumpc1585 unheart1593 mope1596 chill1597 sour1600 disgallant1601 disheart1603 dishearten1606 fainten1620 depress1624 sullen1628 tristitiate1628 disliven1631 dampen1633 weigh1640 out-spirit1643 dispirit1647 flat1649 funeralize1654 hearta1658 disencourage1659 attrist1680 flatten1683 dismalizec1735 blue-devil1812 out-heart1845 downweigh1851 to get down1861 frigidize1868 languor1891 downcast1914 neg1987 1581 [implied in: J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 115 So that he was deiected and compelled to weepe for very many, which had fallen. (at dejected adj. 3)]. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 525 Good authours deiect me too-too much, and quaile my courage. 1625 J. Mede Let. 25 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 204 The King was much dejected by a Lettre received from Denmark. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xx. 101 To deject and contrist myself with so sad and melancholy an account. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 8 Nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. x. 68 The things which do not disturb her temper, may, perhaps, deject her spirits. †b. intransitive (for reflexive). To be dejected. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] heavyOE fallOE droopena1225 lourc1290 droopc1330 to abate one's countenance (also cheer)a1350 dullc1374 fainta1375 languora1375 languisha1382 afflicta1393 gloppen?a1400 weary1434 appalc1450 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450 peak1580 dumpc1585 mopea1592 sink1603 bate1607 deject1644 despond1655 alamort?1705 sadden1718 dismal1780 munge1790 mug1828 to get one's tail down1853 to have (also get) the pip1881 shadow1888 to have (one's) ass in a sling1960 1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 72 Deject not, O my soule, nor let thy thoughts despaire. 6. intransitive. To bend downwards.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)] hangOE to hang outc1400 stoop1422 overhang1567 overreach1610 beetlea1616 shelvea1616 oversail1674 impend1780 deject1825 whave1847 overtopple1855 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 323 It stands, or rather dejects, over an elderly pair of wooden gates. Derivatives deˈjecting adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 1818 Mrs. E. H. Iliff Poems (ed. 2) 20 The mien assuming of dejecting care. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1430v.c1420
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