DPage 89
- English Word Defensive Definition Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.
- English Word Defensive Definition In a state or posture of defense.
- English Word Defensive Definition That which defends; a safeguard.
- English Word Defensively Definition On the defensive.
- English Word Defensor Definition A defender.
- English Word Defensor Definition A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.
- English Word Defensor Definition The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.
- English Word Defensory Definition Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.
- English Word Defer Definition To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
- English Word Defer Definition To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
- English Word Defer Definition To render or offer.
- English Word Defer Definition To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
- English Word Defer Definition To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
- English Word Deference Definition A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.
- English Word Deferent Definition Serving to carry; bearing.
- English Word Deferent Definition That which carries or conveys.
- English Word Deferent Definition An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
- English Word Deferential Definition Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
- English Word Deferentially Definition With deference.
- English Word Deferment Definition The act of delaying; postponement.