| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Deign.[Websters]
2. To be pleased. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have condescended or stooped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have accorded, admitted or allowed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have permitted, vouchsafed, conceded or authorised.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb deign.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (deign) | 1. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.[Wordnet]. 2. To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.[Websters]. 3. To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.[Websters]. 4. To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: deigning, deigned, deigns, deigner, deigners, deigningly and deignedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DEIGNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Specialty Definition: deign
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Dane. To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend. O deign to visit our foraken seats.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (intransitive) To condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity. He didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him. (references) | 2: [Verb] (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something. They didn't deign us our clothing before we were put outside. (references) | |
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Specialty Expressions: deign
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Regular group divisible incomplete block deign | Statistics | A group divisible incomplete block design introduced by Bose & Connor, 1952. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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