Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-PHLEG'MED-NESS, a.

A state of being freed from water. [Not used.] – Boyle.

DE-PHLO-GIS'TI-CATE, v.t. [de and Gr. φλογιστος, burnt, inflammable, from φλογιζω, to burn. See Phlogiston.]

To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. – Priestley.

DE-PHLO-GIS'TIC-A-TED, pp.

Deprived of phlogiston. Dephlogisticated air, is an elastic fluid capable of supporting animal life and flame much longer than common air. It is now called oxygen, oxygen gas, or vital air.

DE-PHLO-GIS'TIC-A-TING, ppr.

Depriving of phlogiston.

DE-PICT', v.t. [L. depingo, depictum; de and pingo, to paint.]

1. To paint; to portray; to form a likeness in colors; as, to depict a lion on a shield. – Taylor.
2. To describe; to represent in words; as, the poet depicts the virtues of his hero in glowing language.

DE-PICT'ED, pp.

Painted; represented in colors; described.

DE-PICT'ING, ppr.

Painting; representing in colors, or in words.

DE-PIC'TION, n.

A painting or depicting.

DE-PIC'TURE, v.t. [de and picture.]

To paint; to picture; to represent in colors. [See Depict.] – Weever.

DE-PIC'TUR-ED, pp.

Painted; represented in colors.

DEP'IL-ATE, v.t. [L. depilo; de and pilus, hair.]

To strip of hair.

DEP'IL-A-TED, pp.

Deprived of hair.

DEP'IL-A-TING, ppr.

Depriving of hair.

DEP-I-LA'TION, n.

The act of pulling off the hair. – Dryden.

DE-PIL'A-TO-RY, a.

Having the quality or power to take off hair and make bald.

DE-PIL'A-TO-RY, n.

Any application which is used to take off the hair of an animal body; such as lime and orpiment. – Encyc.

DEP'IL-OUS, a.

Without hair. – Brown.

DE-PLANT-A'TION, n. [L. deplanto.]

The act of taking up plants from beds.

DE-PLE'TION, n. [L. depleo; de and pleo, to fill.]

The act of emptying; particularly, in the medical art, the act of diminishing the quantity of blood in the vessels by venesection; bloodletting.

DE-PLE'TO-RY, a.

Calculated to obviate fullness of habit.

DE-PLI-CA'TION, n. [L. de and plico, to fold.]

An unfolding, untwisting or unplaiting. – Montague.

DE-PLOR'A-BLE, a. [See Deplore.]

1. That may be deplored or lamented; lamentable; that demands or causes lamentation; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; miserable; wretched; as, the evils of life are deplorable; the Pagan world is in a deplorable condition. [Deplorate, in a like sense, is not used.]
2. In popular use, low; contemptible; pitiable; as, deplorable stupidity.

DE-PLOR'A-BLE-NESS, n.

The state of being deplorable; misery; wretchedness; a miserable state.

DE-PLOR'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner to be deplored; lamentably; miserably; as, manners are deplorably corrupt.

DE-PLOR-A'TION, n.

The act of lamenting. In music, a dirge or mournful strain.