Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DI-LAP'I-DATE
DI-LAP'I-DATE, v.i. [L. dilapido; di and lapido, to stone, from lapis, a stone. It seems originally to have signified to pull down stone-work, or to suffer such work to fall to pieces.]
To go to ruin; to fall by decay.
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