Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dejection"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Dejection \De*jec"tion\, n. [L. dejectio a casting down: cf. F.
d['e]jection.]
1. A casting down; depression. [Obs. or Archaic] --Hallywell.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

dejection
n 1: a state of melancholy depression
2: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: {fecal
matter}, {faecal matter}, {feces}, {faeces}, {BM}, {stool},
{ordure}]


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