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derelict
(encz) | derelict,opuštěná loď n: Rostislav Svoboda |
derelict
(encz) | derelict,opuštěný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
derelict
(encz) | derelict,zpustlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Derelict
(gcide) | Derelict \Der"e*lict\, a. [L. derelictus, p. p. of derelinquere
to forsake wholly, to abandon; de- + relinquere to leave. See
Relinquish.]
1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian;
left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
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The affections which these exposed or derelict
children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of
nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. --Jer.
Taylor.
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2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful;
unfaithful.
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They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the
vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his
[Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the
vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.
--Burke.
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A government which is either unable or unwilling to
redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest
duties. --J. Buchanan.
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Derelict
(gcide) | Derelict \Der"e*lict\, n. (Law)
(a) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by
its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
(b) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for
cultivation or use.
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derelict
(wn) | derelict
adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a
decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction
tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood";
"a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit,
derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]
2: forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an
abandoned farmhouse" [syn: abandoned, derelict,
deserted]
3: failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in
his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to
pay your bills" [syn: derelict, delinquent, neglectful,
remiss]
4: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-
down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict,
dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]
n 1: a person without a home, job, or property
2: a ship abandoned on the high seas [syn: abandoned ship,
derelict] |
DERELICT
(bouvier) | DERELICT, common law. This term is applied in the common law in a different
sense from what it bears in the civil law. In the former it is applied to
lands left by the sea.
2. When so left by degrees the derelict land belongs to the owner of
the soil adjoining but when the sea retires suddenly, it belongs to the
government. 2 Bl. Com. 262 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 239; 1 Sumn. 328, 490 1 Gallis.
138; Bee, R. 62, 178, 260; Ware, R. 332.
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dereliction
(encz) | dereliction,devastace n: Zdeněk Broždereliction,chátrání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Derelict
(gcide) | Derelict \Der"e*lict\, a. [L. derelictus, p. p. of derelinquere
to forsake wholly, to abandon; de- + relinquere to leave. See
Relinquish.]
1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian;
left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
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The affections which these exposed or derelict
children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of
nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. --Jer.
Taylor.
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2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful;
unfaithful.
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They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the
vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his
[Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the
vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.
--Burke.
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A government which is either unable or unwilling to
redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest
duties. --J. Buchanan.
[1913 Webster]Derelict \Der"e*lict\, n. (Law)
(a) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by
its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
(b) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for
cultivation or use.
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Dereliction
(gcide) | Dereliction \Der`e*lic"tion\, n. [L. derelictio.]
1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or
resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.
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Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
powers. --Burke.
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2. A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.
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A total dereliction of military duties. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. The state of being left or abandoned.
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4. (Law) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of
high-water mark, whereby land is gained.
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dereliction
(wn) | dereliction
n 1: a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his
delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not
really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest
consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"
[syn: delinquency, dereliction, willful neglect]
2: willful negligence |
DERELICT
(bouvier) | DERELICT, common law. This term is applied in the common law in a different
sense from what it bears in the civil law. In the former it is applied to
lands left by the sea.
2. When so left by degrees the derelict land belongs to the owner of
the soil adjoining but when the sea retires suddenly, it belongs to the
government. 2 Bl. Com. 262 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 239; 1 Sumn. 328, 490 1 Gallis.
138; Bee, R. 62, 178, 260; Ware, R. 332.
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DERELICTO
(bouvier) | DERELICTO, civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner; he must,
however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo
revertendi; his intention to abandon them may be inferred by the great
length of time during which he may have been out of possession, without any
attempt to regain them. 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 239; 2 Bro. Civ. Law, 51; Wood's
Civ. Law, 156; 19 Amer. Jur. 219, 221, 222 Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Ware's
R. 4 1.
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