Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: depose – deriding
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depose (-d, -s), v. [Fr. dépose-r < late L. pausāre, cease, lie down.] (webplay: court, fall, give, king, other).
Lay; place; put; degrade; [fig.] dethrone; (see Daniel 5:20).
deposit (-ing, -s), v. [Fr. depositer, commit into the keeping, trust of.] (webplay: charged, given, hands, safe-keeping).
- Lay down; put in place; set down.
- Entrust; consign; commit to the care of.
depreciate, v. [L. dēpretiāt-, lower in price.]
Discount; minimize; devalue; cheapen; reduce; downgrade.
depredation, n. [Fr. déprédation < L. dēpreædātiōn-em, plundering.]
Waste; consumption; pillaging.
deprive (-d), v. [OFr depriver < late L. dēprīvāre, deprive.] (webplay: debar, face, man, wisdom).
Rob; dispossess; strip; take; bereave; (see Genesis 27:45).
depth (-s), n. [ON dýpt.] (webplay: compass, face, feet, height, infinite, men, night, rear, stillest, unfathomable).
- Visibility; fair sky; clear atmosphere; visual acuity; sense of three-dimensional space; [fig.] import; meaningfulness; significance.
- Richness of hue; intensity of color.
- Abyss; profoundness; profundity; extent of penetration.
- Measure; quantity; expanse; extent; infinity; (see Exodus 15:8).
- Deepness; distance down; length from surface to bottom in a body of water.
depute (-d), v. [Fr. députer < L. dēputāre, consider as, destine, allot.] (webplay: man, more, name).
Appoint; assign; send with a special commission; (see 2 Samuel 15:3).
deputy (deputies), n. [Fr. député; see depute, v.] (webplay: may, send).
Representative; law enforcer; person appointed or elected.
derided, verbal adj. [L.; see deriding, verbal adv.]
Poor; humble; lowly; unappreciated; mocked, ridiculed; laughed at in contempt.
deriding, verbal adv. [L. dērīdē-re, laugh to scorn, scoff at; see deriding, verbal adj.] (webplay: turn).
Mocking; ridiculing; laughing; [word play on “riding”] swooping; gliding; soaring; rollicking; [fig.] calling; chirping.