to depress the spirits of; dispirit; dishearten: Such news dejects me.
–adjective
2.
Archaic. dejected; downcast.
Origin: 1375–1425; late ME dejecten (v.) < L dējectus (ptp. of dējicere to throw down), equiv. to dē-de-+ -jec-, comb. form of jacere to throw + -tus ptp. suffix
1430, from L. dejectus, pp. of deicere "to cast down," from de- "down" + -icere, comb. form of jacere "to throw." Originally literal; the sense of "depress in spirit" is c.1450.
[di-jekt] 
