2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
Adoration implies submission and dejection. --Bp.
Pearson.
3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune;
mental depression; melancholy.
What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair,
Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring.
--Milton.
4. A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.]
A dejection of appetite. --Arbuthnot.
5. (Physiol.)
(a) The discharge of excrement.
(b) F[ae]ces; excrement. --Ray.