Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-OX'Y-GEN-A-TED, pp.

Deprived of oxygen.

DE-OX'Y-GEN-A-TING, ppr.

Depriving of oxygen.

DE-OX-Y-GEN-A'TION, n.

The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

DE-PAINT', v.t. [Fr. depeindre, depeint; de and peindre, L. pingo, to paint.]

1. To paint; to picture; to represent in colors, as by painting the resemblance of. Spenser.
2. To describe in words. Gay.

DE-PAINT'ED, pp.

Painted; represented in colors; described.

DE-PAINT'ER, n.

A painter. Douglas.

DE-PAINT'ING, ppr.

Painting; representing in colors; describing.

DE-PART', n.

1. The act of going away; death. [Not used.] Shak.
2. Division; separation. [Not used] Bacon.

DE-PART', v.i. [Fr. departir, de and partir, to separate; Sp. departir; See Part.]

1. To go or move from. Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. Matth. xxv. It is followed by from, or from is implied before the place left. “I will depart to my own land,” that is, I will depart from this place to my own land. Num. x.
2. To go from; to leave; to desist, as from a practice. Jehu departed not from the sins of Jeroboam. Jehoshaphat departed not from the way of Asa his father.
3. To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhete to or follow; as, we can not depart from our rules. I have not departed from thy judgments. Ps. cxix.
4. To desist; to leave; to abandon; as, he would not depart from his purpose, resolution, or demand.
5. To be lost; to perish; to vanish; as, his glory has departed.
6. To die; to decease; to leave this world. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. Luke ii. To depart this life is elliptical, from being understood.
7. To leave; to forsake; to abandon; as, to depart from evil.
8. To cease. The prey departeth not. Nah. iii.
9. To deviate; to vary from. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.
10. To vary; to deviate from the title or defense in pleading. Blackstone.
11. To part with. [Not in use.] Shak. To depart from God, is to forsake his service and live in sin; to apostatize; to revolt; to desert his government and laws. God departs from men, when he abandons them to their own sinful inclinations, or ceases to bestow on them his favor. Hosea ix.

DE-PART', v.t.

To divide or separate; to part. [Not used.] Shak. Spenser.

DE-PART'ED, pp.

Gone from; vanished; dead.

DE-PART'ER, n.

One who refines metals by separation. [Not used.]

DE-PART'ING, n.

A going away; separation. Shak.

DE-PART'ING, ppr.

Going from; leaving; desisting; forsaking; vanishing; dying.

DE-PART'MENT, n. [Fr. departement; Sp. departimiento.]

1. Literally, a separation or division; hence, a separate part, or portion; a division of territory; as, the departments of France.
2. A separate allotment or part of business; a distinct province, in which a class of duties are allotted to a particular person; as, the department of state, assigned to the secretary of state; the treasury department; the department of war.
3. A separate station; as, the admirals had their respective departments. Nearly in this sense, during war, were used in America, the terms, Northern and Southern departments.

DE-PART-MENT'AL, a.

Pertaining to a department, or division.

DE-PART'URE, n.

1. The act of going away; a moving from or leaving a place; as, a departure from London.
2. Death; decease; removal from the present life. The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. iv.
3. A forsaking; abandonment; as, a departure from evil.
4. A desisting; as, a departure from a purpose.
5. Ruin; destruction. Ezek. xxvi.
6. A deviation from the title or defense in pleading. Blackstone.
7. In navigation, the distance of two places on the same parallel, counted in miles of the equator. Mar. Dict.

DE-PAS'CENT, a. [L. depascens, depascor; de and pascor, to feed.]

Feeding.

DE-PAS'TURE, v.i.

To feed; to graze. If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment. Blackstone.

DE-PAS'TURE, v.t. [L. depascor, supra.]

To eat up; to consume. Spenser.

DE-PAS'TUR-ED, pp.

Eaten up; consumed by grazing upon.

DE-PAS'TUR-ING, ppr.

Feeding; grazing; eating up.

DE-PAU'PER-ATE, v.t. [L. depaupero; de and paupero, to beggar, from pauper, poor: Sp. empobrecer.]

To make poor; to impoverish; to deprive of fertility or richness; as, to depauperate the soil or the blood. Mortimer. Arbuthnot.

DE-PAU'PER-A-TED, pp.

Impoverished, made poor.

DE-PAU'PER-A-TING, ppr.

Impoverishing; making poor.