Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DE-PRIV'ER – DEP'U-TY-POST-MAS-TER
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DE-PRIV'ER, n.
He or that which deprives or bereaves.
DE-PRIV'ING, ppr.
Bereaving; taking away what is possessed; divesting; hindering from enjoying; deposing.
DEPTH, n. [from deep.]
- Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downward or inward. The depth of a river may be ten feet. The depth of the ocean is unfathomable. The depth of a wound may be an inch. In a vertical direction, depth is opposed to highth.
- A deep place.
- The sea; the ocean. The depth closed me round about. – Jonah ii.
- The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity. When he set a compass on the face of the depth. – Prov. viii.
- The middle of a season, as the depth of winter; or the middle, the darkest or stillest part, as the depth of night; or the inner part, a part remote from the border, as the depth of a wood or forest.
- Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as, the depth of science.
- Unsearchableness; infinity. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. – Rom. xi.
- The breadth and depth of the love of Christ, are its vast extent.
- Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as, depth of understanding; depth of skill.
- The depth of a squadron or battalion, is the number of men in a file, which forms the extent from the front to the rear; as, a depth of three men or six men.
- Depth of a sail, the extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech of a stay-sail or boom-sail. – Mar. Dict.
DEPTH'LESS, a.
Having no depth. – Coleridge.
DE-PULSE', v.t.
To drive away.
DE-PULS'ED, pp.
Driven away.
DE-PUL'SION, a. [L. depulsio; de and pello, to drive.]
A driving or thrusting away. [See Repulsion.]
DE-PUL'SO-RY, a.
Driving or thrusting away; averting.
DEP'U-RATE, v.t. [Fr. depurer; It. depurare; Sp. depurar; from de and pus, puris.]
To purify; to free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; a chimical term.
DEP'U-RA-TED, pp.
Purified from heterogeneous matter, or from impurities. – E. Stiles.
DEP'U-RA-TING, ppr.
Purifying; freeing from impurities.
DEP-U-RA'TION, n.
- The act of purifying or freeing fluids from heterogeneous matter. This is done by decantation, when the feculent matter is deposited on the bottom of the vessel; or by despumation, effected by boiling or fermentation, and skimming; or by filtration; or by fining or clarification. – Parr.
- The cleansing of a wound from impure matter.
DEP'U-RA-TO-RY, a.
Cleansing; purifying; or tending to purify. A depuratory fever, is a fever that expels morbid matter by a free perspiration. – Sydenham.
DE-PURE', v.i.
To depurate. [Not used.]
DEP-U-TA'TION, n. [Fr. id.; It. deputazione; Sp. diputacion. See Depute.]
- The act of appointing a substitute or representative to act for another; the act of appointing and sending a deputy or substitute to transact business for another, as his agent, either with a special commission and authority, or with general powers. This word may be used for the election of representatives to a legislature; but more generally it is employed to express the appointment of a special agent or commissioner, by an individual or public body, to transact a particular business.
- A special commission or authority to act as the substitute of another; as, this man acts by deputation from the sheriff.
- The person deputed; the person or persons authorized and sent to transact business for another; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to offer terms of peace.
DE-PUTE', v.t. [Fr. deputer; It. deputare; Port. deputar; Sp. diputar; L. deputo, but differently applied; de and puto. The primary sense of puto is to thrust, throw, send; but it has various applications. See Class Bd, No. 13, 19.]
To appoint as a substitute or agent to act for another; to appoint and send with a special commission or authority to transact business in another's name. The sherif deputes a man to serve a writ. There is no man deputed by the king to hear. – 2 Sam. xv. The bishop may depute a priest to administer the sacrament. – Ayliffe.
DE-PUT'ED, pp.
Appointed as a substitute; appointed and sent with special authority to act for another.
DE-PUT'ING, ppr.
Appointing as a substitute; appointing and sending with a special commission to transact business for another.
DEP'U-TIZE, v.t.
To appoint a deputy; to empower to act for another, as a sherif.
DEP'U-TIZ-ED, pp.
Appointed to act for another.
DEP'U-TIZ-ING, ppr.
Appointing a person to act for another.
DEP'U-TY, n. [Fr. deputé.]
- A person appointed or elected to act for another, especially a person sent with a special commission to act in the place of another; a lieutenant; a viceroy. A prince sends a deputy to a diet or council, to represent him and his dominions. A sherif appoints a deputy to execute the duties of his office. The towns in New England send deputies to the legislature. In the latter sense, a deputy has general powers, and it is more common to use the word representative.
- In law, one that exercises an office in another's right, and the forfeiture or misdemeanor of such deputy shall cause the person he represents to lose his office. – Philips.
A person appointed to perform the duties of a collector of the customs, in place of the collector.
One appointed to act in the place of the marshal.
A person who is appointed to act as post-master, in subordination to the Post-Master General.