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Desperate






Desperate

Of which there is no hope.



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Despacheurs
The name given, in some countries, to persons appointed to settle cases of average.

Despatches
Official communications of official Persons, on the affairs of government.

Despitus
This word signifies, in our ancient law books, a contemptible person.

Despoil
Imports the use of violence or of clandestine means to deprive a person of something he possesses.

Despot
This word, in its most simple and original acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch; but, taken in bad part, as it is usually employed, it signifies a tyrant. In some states, despot is the title given to the sovereign, as king is given in others.

Despotism
Government. That abuse of government, where the sovereign power is not divided, but united in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title.



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Desertion of seamen
Contracts. The abandonment, by a sailor, of a ship or vessel, in which he engaged to perform a voyage, before the expiration of his time, and without leave.

Desertion, malicious
The act of a hushand or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation.

Designation
Wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name.

Despacheurs
The name given, in some countries, to persons appointed to settle cases of average.

Despatches
Official communications of official Persons, on the affairs of government.

Desperate

Despitus
This word signifies, in our ancient law books, a contemptible person.

Despoil
Imports the use of violence or of clandestine means to deprive a person of something he possesses.

Despot
This word, in its most simple and original acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch; but, taken in bad part, as it is usually employed, it signifies a tyrant. In some states, despot is the title given to the sovereign, as king is given in others.

Despotism
Government. That abuse of government, where the sovereign power is not divided, but united in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title.

Desrenable
French law. Unreasonable.

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