- 1. n. A casting down; depression. Source: opted
- 2. n. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Source: opted
- 3. n. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. Source: opted
- 4. n. A low condition; weakness; inability. Source: opted
- 5. n. The discharge of excrement. Source: opted
- 6. n. Faeces; excrement. Source: opted
- 7. n. a state of melancholy depression Source: wordnet
- 8. n. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels Source: wordnet
- 9. 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) Fæces; excrement. Ray. Source: webster
- 10. n:100 n. a state of melancholy depression Source: ecdict
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