Dictionary: DEP'RE-DATE – DE-PRIVE'MENT

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DEP'RE-DATE, v.t. [L. deprædor; de and prædor, to plunder, præda, prey.]

  1. To plunder, to rob; to pillage; to take the property of an enemy or of a foreign country by force; as, the army depredated the enemy's country. That kind of war which depredates and distresses individuals. – Marshall.
  2. To prey upon; to waste; to spoil. – Bacon.
  3. To devour; to destroy by eating; as, wild animals depredate the corn.

DEP'RE-DA-TED, pp.

Soiled; plundered; wasted; pillaged.

DEP'RE-DA-TING, ppr.

Plundering; robbing; pillaging.

DEP-RE-DA'TION, n.

  1. The act of plundering; a robbing, a pillaging.
  2. Waste; consumption; a taking away by any act of violence. The sea often makes depredations on the land. Intemperance commits depredations on the constitution.

DEP'RE-DA-TOR, n.

One who plunders, or pillages; a spoiler; a waster.

DEP'RE-DA-TO-RY, a.

Plundering; spoiling; consisting in pillaging. – Encyc.

DEP-RE-HEND', v.t. [L. deprehendo; de and prehendo, to take or seize.]

  1. To catch; to take unawares or by surprise, to seize, as a person committing an unlawful act. – More. Hooker.
  2. To detect; to discover; to obtain the knowledge of. – Bacon.

DEP-RE-HEND'ED, pp.

Taken by surprise; caught; seized; discovered.

DEP-RE-HEND'ING, ppr.

Taking unawares; catching; seizing; discovering.

DEP-RE-HEN'SI-BLE, a.

That may be caught, or discovered.

DEP-RE-HEN'SI-BLE-NESS, n.

Capableness of being caught or discovered.

DEP-RE-HEN'SION, n.

A catching or seizing; a discovery. [Deprehend and its derivatives are little used.]

DE-PRESS', v.t. [L. depressus, deprimo; de and pressus, premo, to press.]

  1. To press down; to press to a lower state or position; as, to depress the end of a tube, or the muzzle of a gun.
  2. To let fall; to bring down; as, to depress the eye.
  3. To render dull or languid; to limit or diminish; as, to depress commerce.
  4. To sink; to lower; to deject; to make sad; as, to depress the spirits or the mind.
  5. To humble; to abase; as, to depress pride.
  6. To sink in altitude; to cause to appear lower or nearer the horizon; as, a man sailing toward the equator depresses the pole.
  7. To impoverish; to lower in temporal estate; as, misfortunes and losses have depressed the merchants.
  8. To lower in value; as, to depress the price of stock.

DE-PRESS'ED, pp.

  1. Pressed or forced down; lowered; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled; sunk; rendered languid.
  2. In botany, a depressed leaf is hollow in the middle, or having the disk more depressed than the sides; used of succulent leaves, and opposed to convex. – Martyn.

DE-PRESS'ING, ppr.

Pressing down; lowering in place; letting fall; sinking; dejecting; abashing; impoverishing; rendering languid.

DE-PRESS'ING-LY, adv.

In a depressing manner.

DE-PRES'SION, n.

  1. The act of pressing down; or the state of being pressed down; a low state.
  2. A hollow; a sinking or falling in of a surface; or a forcing inward; as, roughness consisting in little protuberances and depressions; the depression of the skull.
  3. The act of humbling; abasement; as, the depression of pride; the depression of the nobility.
  4. A sinking of the spirits; dejection; a state of sadness; want of courage or animation; as, depression of the mind.
  5. A low state of strength; a slate of body succeeding debility in the formation of disease. – Coxe.
  6. A low state of business or of property.
  7. The sinking of the polar star toward the horizon, as a person recedes from the pole toward the equator. Also, the distance of a star from the horizon below, which is measured by an arch of the vertical circle or azimuth, passing through the star, intercepted between the star and the horizon. – Bailey. Encyc.
  8. In algebra, the depression of an equation, is the bringing of it into lower and more simple terms by division. – Bailey.

DE-PRESS'IVE, a.

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

DE-PRESS'OR, n.

  1. He that presses down; an oppressor.
  2. In anatomy, a muscle that depresses or draws down the part to which it is attached; as, the depressor of the lower jaw, or of the eyeball. It is called also depriment or deprimens.

DEP'RI-MENT, n. [L. deprimo, to depress.]

Depression. Deprimens is the epithet given to a muscle which depresses, as that which depresses the globe of the eye.

DE-PRIV'A-BLE, a. [See Deprive.]

That may be deprived. A chaplain shall be deprivable by the founder, not by the bishop. – Encyc. [See Deprive, No. 4]

DEP-RI-VA'TION, n. [See Deprive.]

  1. The act of depriving; a taking away.
  2. A state of being deprived; loss; want; bereavement by loss of friends or of goods.
  3. In law, the act of divesting a bishop or other clergyman of his spiritual promotion or dignity; the taking away of a preferment; deposition. This is of two kinds; a beneficio and an ab officio. The former is the deprivation of a minister of his living or preferment; the latter, of his order, and otherwise called deposition or degradation. – Encyc.

DE-PRIVE', v.t. [L. de and privo, to take away, Sp. privar. It. privare, Fr. priver. See Private.]

  1. To take from; to bereave of something possessed or enjoyed; followed by of; as, to deprive a man of sight; to deprive one of strength, of reason, or of property. This has a general signification, applicable to a lawful or unlawful taking. God hath deprived her of wisdom. – Job xxxix.
  2. To hinder from possessing or enjoying; to debar. From his face I shall be hid, deprived / Of his blessed countenance. – Milton. [This use of the word is not legitimate, but common.]
  3. To free or release from. – Spenser.
  4. To divest of an ecclesiastical preferment, dignity or office, to divest of orders; as a bishop, prebend or vicar.

DE-PRIV'ED, pp.

Bereft; divested; hindered; stripped of office or dignity; deposed; degraded.

DE-PRIVE'MENT, n.

The state of losing or being deprived.