/di jekt"/ , v.t.
1. to depress the spirits of; dispirit; dishearten: Such news dejects me.
adj.
2. Archaic. dejected; downcast.
[ 1375-1425; late ME dejecten (v.) dejectus (ptp. of dejicere to throw down), equiv. to de- DE- + -jec-, comb. form of jacere to throw + -tus ptp. suffix ]