Definition/Meaning of deject

• English - Verb: deject ( third-person singular simple present dejects , present participle dejecting , simple past and past participle dejected ) ( transitive ) Make sad or dispirited . Benjamin Franklin I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation . She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful , and avoided company . ( obsolete , transitive ) To cast down . Udall Christ dejected himself even unto the hells…
• English - Etymology: From Old French dejeter , from Latin deicere ( “ to throw down ” ).
• English - Pronunciation: ( UK ) IPA (key) : /dɪˈdʒɛkt/ Rhymes: -ɛkt
• English - Quotations: 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God , Man , & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature [1] (page 215) Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world , so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism . 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [2] On the other hand , there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as…
• English - Derived terms: dejected dejection