Dictionary: DE-PLORE' – DE-POP-U-LA'TOR

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DE-PLORE', v.t. [L. deploro; de and ploro, to howl, to wail; Fr. deplorer; It. deplorare; Sp. deplorar, llorar.]

To lament; to bewail; to mourn; to feel or express deep and poignant grief for. We deplored the death of Washington.

DE-PLOR'ED, pp.

Lamented; bewailed; deeply regretted.

DE-PLOR'ED-LY, adv.

Lamentably. [Not used.] – Taylor.

DE-PLOR'ER, n.

One who deplores, or deeply laments; a deep mourner.

DE-PLOR'ING, n.

Act of deploring.

DE-PLOR'ING, ppr.

Bewailing; deeply lamenting.

DE-PLOR'ING-LY, adv.

In a deploring manner.

DE-PLOY', v.i.

To open; to extend; to form a more extended front or line.

DE-PLOY', v.t. [Fr. deployer; de and ployer, or plier, to fold; L. plico; Gr. πλεκω; Arm. plega; Sp. plegar; It. piegare; W. plygu. Hence Sp. desplegar, to display; It. spiegare; Deploy is only a different orthography of deplier, Sp. desplegar, to display.]

To display; to open; to extend; a military term.

DE-PLOY'ED, pp.

Opened; displayed; extended.

DE-PLOY'ING, ppr.

Opening; extending; displaying.

DE-PLU-MA'TION, n. [See Deplume.]

  1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
  2. A tumor of the eye-lids with loss of hair. – Coxe.

DE-PLUME', v.t. [L. deplumo; de and pluma, a feather; Sp. desplumar; It. spiumare.]

To strip or pluck off feathers; to deprive of plumage. – Hayward.

DE-PLUM'ED, pp.

Stripped of feathers or plumes.

DE-PLUM'ING, ppr.

Stripping off plumes or feathers.

DE-PO'LAR-IZE, v.t.

To deprive of polarity. [See Polarity.] – Ure.

DE-PONE', v.t. [L. depono.]

To lay down as a pledge; to wage. [Not in use.] – Hudibras.

DE-PO'NENT, a. [L. deponens, depono; de and pono, to lay.]

  1. Laying down.
  2. A deponent verb, in the Latin Grammar, is a verb which has a passive termination, with an active signification, and wants one of the passive participles; as, loquor, to speak.

DE-PO'NENT, n.

  1. One who deposes, or gives a deposition under oath; one who gives written testimony to be used as evidence in a court of justice. With us in New England, this word is never used, I believe, for a witness who gives oral testimony in court. In England, a deponent is one who gives answers under oath to interrogatories exhibited in chancery.
  2. A deponent verb.

DE-POP'U-LATE, v.i.

To become dispeopled.

DE-POP'U-LATE, v.t. [L. depopulor, de and populor, to ravage or lay waste, from populus, people; Sp. despoblar; It. spopolare; Fr. depeupler.]

To dispeople; to unpeople; to deprive of inhabitants, whether by death, or by expulsion. It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers. The deluge nearly depopulated the earth.

DE-POP'U-LA-TED, pp.

Dispeopled; deprived of inhabitants.

DE-POP'U-LA-TING, ppr.

Dispeopling; depriving of inhabitants.

DE-POP-U-LA'TION, n.

The act of dispeopling; destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.

DE-POP-U-LA'TOR, n.

One who depopulates; one who destroys or expels the inhabitants of a city, town or country; a dispeopler.