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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEFEATURE

n. 1. Change of feature.
2. Overthrow; defeat.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEFEATURE

De *fea "ture, n. Etym: [OF. desfaiture a killing, disguising, prop. ,an undoing. See Defeat, and cf. Disfeature. ]

 

1. Overthrow; defeat. [Obs. ] "Nothing but loss in their defeature. " Beau. & Fl.

 

2. Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs. ] "Strange defeatures in my face. " Shak.

 

DEFEATURED

DEFEATURED De *fea "tured, p. p.

 

Defn: Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the. .. way I have described. De Quincey.