DEPORTMENT gration and deportation out of our country.' Stokes Deportment (dē-pôrt'ment), n. [Fr. déportement. See DEPORT.] Carriage; manner of acting in relation to the duties of life; behaviour; demeanour; conduct; management. What's a fine person or a beauteous face Unless deportment gives them decent grace? Churchill. Deposable (de-pōz'a-bl), a. That may be deposed or deprived of office. Deposal (dé-póz'al), n. The act of deposing or divesting of office. The short interval between the deposal and death of princes is become proverbial. Fox. Depose (dě-poz'), v.t. pret. & pp. deposed; ppr deposing. (Fr. déposer, from prefix dé -L de, from, away, and poser (see POSE), but influenced by L depono. See DEPONE.] 1† To lay down; to let fall; to deposit. 'Its surface raised by additional mud deposed on it. Woodward.-2. ↑ To lay aside. God hath deposed his wrath towards all mankind. Barrow. 3. To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to degrade; to divest of office; as, to depose a king or a pope. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden. 4. To give testimony on oath, especially to give testimony which is committed to writing, to give answers to interrogatories, intended as evidence in a court-5. To take away; to strip; to divest You may my glory and my state depose. Shak. 6. To examine on oath. Shak. Depose him in the Justice of his cause. Depose (dé-põz′), v.í. To bear witness. "Twas he that made you to depose.' Shak. Deposer (dé-poz'èr), n. 1. One who deposes or degrades from office.-2. A deponent; a witness. Deposit (dé-poz'it), v.t. [L depositum, something deposited, a deposit, from depono, depositum. See DEPONE.] 1. To lay down; to place; to put; as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; an inundation deposits particles of earth on a meadow.-2. To lay up; to lay in a place for preservation; as, we deposit the produce of the earth in barns, cellars, or storehouses; we deposit goods in a warehouse, and books in a library.3. To lodge in the hands of a person for safe-keeping or other purpose; to commit to the care of; to intrust; to commit to one as a pledge; as, the money is deposited as a pledge or security. The people with whom God thought fit to deposit these things for the benefit of the world. Clarke. 4. To lay aside; to get rid of. If what is written prove useful to you to the depos thing that which I cannot but deem an error. Hammond. Deposit (dě-poz'it), n. 1. That which is laid or thrown down; any matter laid or thrown down, or lodged; that which having been suspended or carried along in a medium lighter than itself, at length subsides, as mud, gravel, stones, detritus, organic remains, &c. The most characteristic distinction between the lacustrine and marine deltas, consists in the nature of the organic remains which become imbedded in their deposits. Lyell. 2. Anything intrusted to the care of another; a pledge; a pawn; a thing given as security, or for preservation; more specifically, money lodged in a bank for safety or convenience; as, these papers are committed to you as a sacred deposit; he has a deposit of money in his hands 3. A place where things are deposited, a depository. [Rare.] 4. In law, (a) a sum of money which a man puts into the hands of another as a kind of security for the fulfilment of some agreement, or as a part payment in advance. (b) A naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailer without recompense, and to be returned when the bailer shall require it. (c) In Scots law, same as Depositation. In deposit or on deposit given into a person's custody for safe-keeping Depositary (dé-poz'it-a-ri), n. [Fr. dépositaire; 1. depositarius, one who receives a deposit, from depono, depositum. See DEPONE A person with whom anything is left or lodged in trust; one to whom a thing is committed for safe-keeping, or to be used for the benefit of the owner; a trustee; a guardian; as, the Jews were the depositaries of the sacred writings. Depositation (dé-póz′it-á"shon), n. In Scots law, a contract by which a subject belong 3 ing to one person is intrusted to the gratuitous custody of another (called the deposi tary), to be re-delivered on demand. A proper depositation is one where a special subject is deposited to be restored without alteration. An improper depositation is one where money or other fungibles are deposited to be returned in kind. Deposition (de-pō-zi’shon), n. [L. depositio, depositionis, a deposition, a pulling down, a giving of testimony, from depono, depositum. See DEPONE.] 1. The act of laying or setting down; placing; as, soil is formed by the deposition of fine particles during a flood. The acquisition of the body of the saint (Mark), and its deposition in the ducal chapel, perhaps not yet completed, occasioned the investiture of that chapel with all possible splendour. Ruskin. 2. That which is thrown down; that which is lodged; as, the banks of rivers are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.-3. The act of laying down or bringing before; pre sentation. The influence of princes upon the dispositions of their courts needs not the deposition of their examples, since it hath the authority of a known prin. ciple. Mountagu. 4. The act of giving testimony under oath.5. Declaration; assertion; specifically, the attested written testimony of a witness; an affidavit.-6. The act of dethroning a king, or the degrading of a person from an office or station; a divesting of sovereignty, or of office and dignity; a depriving of clerical orders. A deposition differs from abdication; an abdication being voluntary, and a deposition compulsory. Depositor (dē-poz'it-êr), n. One who makes a deposit. Depository (dē-poz'it-o-ri), n. 1. A place where anything is lodged for safe-keeping; as, a warehouse is a depository for goods. 2. A person to whom a thing is intrusted for safe-keeping. [Rare.] If I am a vain man, my gratification lies within a narrow circle. I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. Funius. Deposit-receipt (dé-poz'it-re-sēt), n. A note or acknowledgment for money lodged with a banker for a stipulated time, on which a higher rate of interest is allowed than on the balance of a current account. Depot (de-po), n. [Fr. dépôt, O. Fr. depost, from L. depono, depositum, to lay down, to put or place aside-de, down, and pono, to place.] 1. A place of deposit; a depository; a warehouse; a storehouse, as at a railwaystation, canal terminus, &c., for receiving goods for storage or sale; as, a coal-depot. 2. A railway-station; a building for the accommodation and shelter of passengers by railway.-3. Milit. (a) a military magazine, as a fort, where stores, ammunition, &c., are deposited; or a station where recruits for different regiments are received and drilled, and where soldiers who cannot accompany their regiments remain. (b) The head-quarters of a regiment where all supplies are received, and whence they are distributed. (c) By extension, that portion of a battalion which remains at home when the rest are ordered on foreign service.-4. In fort. a particular place at the tail of the trenches out of the reach of the cannon of the place, where the troops generally assemble who are ordered to attack the outworks. Depravation (de-pra-va'shon), n. [L. depravatio. See DEPRAVE.] 1. The act of making bad or worse; the act of corrupting,-2. The state of being made bad or worse; degeneracy; a state in which good qualities are lost or impaired. We have a catalogue of the blackest sins that hunian nature, in its highest depravation, is capable of committing. South. 3. Censure; defamation. Stubborn critics apt, without a theme, Shak. For depravation. SYN. Deterioration, degeneracy, corruption, contamination, vitiation. Deprave (de-práv'), v. t. pret. & pp. depraved; ppr.depraving. [L. depravo, to make crooked, to pervert, to make worse, to seduce-de, intens., and pravus, crooked, perverse, wicked.] 1. To make bad or worse; to impair the good qualities of; to vitiate; to corrupt; as, to deprave manners, morals, government, laws; to deprave the heart, mind, will, understanding, taste, principles, &c. Whose pride depraves each other better part. Spenser. Shak. Depraved (dě-pravd), p. and a. 1. Made bad or worse; vitiated; tainted; corrupted. 2. Corrupt; wicked; destitute of holiness or good principles.-Criminal, Sinful, Wicked, Immoral, Depraved. See under CRIMINAL. SYN. Corrupt, vicious, vitiated, profligate, abandoned. Depravedly (dē-prāv'ed-li), adv. In a corrupt manner. Depravedness (dē-prāv'ed-nes), n. Corrup tion; taint; a vitiated state. Hammond. Depravement (de-prav'ment), n. A vitiated state. 'Melancholy depravements of fancy." Sir T. Browne. [Rare.] Depraver (dé-prāv'ér), n. A corrupter; he who vitiates; a vilifier. Depravingly (dē-prāv′ing-li), adv. In a deDepravity (dé-prav'i-ti), n. praving manner. 1. Corruption; a vitiated state; as, the depravity of manners and morals.-2. A vitiated state of the heart; wickedness; corruption of moral principles; destitution of holiness or good principles.SYN. Corruption, vitiation, wickedness, vice, profligacy. Deprecable (de'pre-ka-bl), a. That is to be deprecated. I look upon the temporal destruction of the greatest king as far less deprecable than the eternal damnation of the meanest subject. Eikon Basilike. Deprecate (de'pré-kat), v. t. pret. & pp. deprecated; ppr. deprecating. [L. deprecor, deprecatus, to pray earnestly to, to pray against, to ward off by prayer-de, off, and precor, to pray.] 1. To pray against; to pray or entreat that a present evil may be removed, or an expected one averted; to pray deliverance from; as, we should all deprecate the return of war. The judgments we would deprecate are not removed. Smallridge. 2. To plead or argue earnestly against; to urge reasons against; to express strong disapproval of: said of a scheme, purpose, and the like. His purpose was deprecated by all around him, and he was with difficulty induced to abandon it. Sir W. Scott. 3. To implore mercy of. Those darts, whose points make gods adore His might, and deprecate his power. Prior. Deprecatingly (de'pré-kat-ing-li), adv. By deprecation. Deprecation (de-pre-kā'shon), n. 1. A praying against; a praying that an evil may be removed or prevented. Deprecation of death.' Donne.-2. Entreaty; petitioning; an excusing; a begging pardon for. South. 3. An imprecation; a curse. We may, with too much justice, apply to him the scriptural deprecation-He that withholdeth his corn the people shall curse him.' Gilpin Deprecative (de'pré-kát-iv), a. See DEPRE CATORY. Deprecator (de'prē-kāt-ér), n. One who deprecates. Deprecatory, Deprecative (de'pre-ka-tori, de'pre-kat-iv), a. That serves to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; having the form of a prayer. 'Humble and deprecatory letters." Bacon. Depreciate (dē-prë'shi-at), v. t. pret. & pp. depreciated; ppr. depreciating. [L. depretio, to lower the price, to undervalue-de, down, and pretium, price; Fr. déprécier, dépriser. See PRICE.] 1. To lessen the price of; to bring down the price or value of; as, to depreciate notes or their value; to depreciate the currency.-2. To undervalue; to represent as of little value or merit, or of less value than is commonly supposed. It is very natural for such as have not succeeded to depreciate the work of those who have. Spectator. To prove the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke. -Decry, Depreciate, Detract, Traduce. See under DECRY.-SYN. To disparage, traduce, decry, lower, detract, undervalue, under DEPENDING Depending + (dē-pend'ing), n. Suspense. Delay is bad, doubt worse, depending worst Jonson. Dependingly (de-pend'ing-li), adv. In a dependent or subordinate manner. Depeople (dě-pe'pl), v.t. [Fr. dépeuplerde, priv., and peuple, people.] To depopulate; to dispeople. Chapman. Deperdit (dē-pèr'dit), n. [L. deperditus, pp. of deperdo, deperditum, to destroy, to lose -de, intens., and perdo, perditum, to lose.] That which is lost or destroyed. Paley. [Rare.] Deperditelyt (de-pèr'dit-li), adv. In the manner of one ruined; desperately. 'Deperditely wicked.' King. Deperdition (de-per-di'shon), n. Loss; destruction. See PERDITION. Depertiblet (de-pèrt'i-bl), a. [L dispertio, to distribute, to divide-dis, asunder, and partio, to share, to part.] Divisible; separable. Bacon. Dephal (dep'hal), n. Artocarpus Lakoocha, an Indian tree, of the same genus as the bread-fruit and jack, and cultivated for its fruit The juice is used for bird-lime. Dephlegmt (de-flem), v. t. [De, priv., and phlegm.] To deprive of or clear from phlegm; to dephlegmate. Boyle. Dephlegmate (de-fleg'mat), v.t. [Prefix de, and Gr. phlegma, phlegm, from phlego, to burn.] To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to rectify: said of spirits or acids. Dephlegmation (de-fleg-ma'shon), n. The operation of separating water from spirits and acids by evaporation or repeated distillation; concentration. Dephlegmator (de-fleg-ma'tér), n. A form of condensing apparatus for stills, consisting of broad sheets of tinned copper soldered together so as to leave narrow spaces between them. Dephlegmedness (de-flem'ed-nes), n. A state of being freed from water. Dephlogisticate (de-flo-jis'ti-kāt), v.t. pret. &pp. dephlogisticated; ppr. dephlogisticating [Prefix de, and Gr. phlogistos, burned, inflammable, from phlogizo, to burn. See PHLOGISTON.] An old term meaning to deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Dephlogistication (de-flo-jis'ti-ka"shon), n. A term applied by the older chemists to certain processes by which they imagined that phlogiston was separated from bodies. They regarded oxygen as common air de: prived of phlogiston; and hence called it dephlogisticated air." Depict (de-pikt'), v.t. [L. depingo, depictum -de, and pingo, to paint.] 1. To paint; to portray; to form a likeness of in colours; as, to depict a lion on a shield. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller. 2. To describe; to represent in words; as, the poet depicts the virtues of his hero in glowing language. Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley. SYN. To delineate, paint, sketch, portray, describe, represent. Depiction (de-pik'shon), n. A painting or depicting. [Rare or obsolete.] Depicture (de-pik'tür), v. t. pret. & pp. depictured; ppr. depicturing. [Prefix de, and picture.] To paint; to picture; to represent in colours. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding. Depilate (de'pil-at), v.t. pret. & pp. depilated; ppr. depilating. [L. depilo, to pull out the hair-de, priv., and pilo, to put forth hairs, from pilus, hair.] To strip of hair. Depilation (de-pil-a'shon), n. The act of stripping of hair; the removal of hair from hides. Depilatory (de-pil'a-to-ri), a. Having the quality or power to remove hair from the skin. Depilatory (de-pil'a-to-ri), n. Any application which is used to strip off hair without injuring the texture of the skin; specifically, a cosmetic employed to remove superfluous hairs from the human skin, as a preparation of lime and orpiment, or a plaster of pitch and rosin. Depiloust (de-pil'us), a. Without hair. Sir T. Browne. The animal is a kind of lizard corticated and depilous. Deplant (de-plant), v.t. [Prefix de, and plant (verb).] To remove plants from beds; to transplant. [Rare.] Deplantation (de-plant-a'shon), n. The act of taking up plants from beds. [Rare.] 2 Deplete (dē-plēt'), v. t. pret. & pp. depleted; ppr. depleting. [L. depleo, depletum, to empty out-de, priv., and pleo, to fill.] 1. To empty, reduce, or exhaust by draining away, as the strength, vital powers, resources, &c.; as, to deplete a country of inhabitants. At no time were the Bank cellars depleted to any alarming extent. Sat. Rev. 2. In med. to empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, with the view of reducing plethora or inflammation, as by blood-letting or saline purgatives. Depletion (de-ple'shon), n. [L. depleo, to empty out-de, priv., and pleo, to fill.] The act of emptying; specifically, in med. the act of diminishing the quantity of blood in the vessels by venesection; blood-letting. Depletive (dė-plēt'iv), a. Tending to deplete; producing depletion. Depletive treatment is contraindicated.' Wardrop. Depletive (de-plet'iv), n. That which depletes; specifically, any medical agent of depletion. She had been exhausted by depletives.' Wardrop. Depletory (de-ple'to-ri), a. deplete. Calculated to Deplication (de-pli-ka'shon), n. [L.de, priv., and plico, to fold.] An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. Deplorability (de-plora-bil'i-ti), n. Deplorableness. The deplorability of war.' Times' newspaper. Deplorable (dé-plor'a-bl),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 deplorable condition to which the king was reduced. Clarendon. 2. Low; contemptible; pitiable; as, deplorable nonsense; deplorable stupidity. [Colloq.] SYN. Lamentable, sad, dismal, wretched, calamitous, grievous, miserable, hopeless, contemptible, pitiable, low. Deplorableness (de-plōr'a-bl-nes), n. The state of being deplorable; misery; wretchedness; a miserable state. Deplorably (dē-plōr'a-bli), adv. In a manner to be deplored; lamentably; miserably; as, manners are deplorably corrupt. Deploratet (de-plorat), a. Lamentable; hopeless. Sir R. L'Estrange. Deploration (de-plōr-a'shon), n. 1. The act of lamenting. The deploration of her fortune.' Speed.-2.1 In music, a dirge or mournful strain. Deplore (de-plor), v. t. pret. & pp. deplored; ppr. deploring. [L. deploro, to weep bitterly, to wail-de, intens., and ploro, to howl, to wail; from Indo-Eur. root plu, whence pluere, to rain; pluvius, rain; and our flow, flood.] 1. To lament; to bewail; to mourn; to feel or express deep and poignant grief for. Thou art gone to the grave! but we will not deplore thee. Heber. 2. To despair of; to regard or give up as desperate. The physicians do make a kind of scruple and religion to stay with the patient after the disease is deplored. 3. To complain of. Never more Bacon. Shak. Will I my master's tears to you deplore. 'Twas when the sea was roaring Gay. Lament Deploredly t (de-plōr'ed-li), adv. ably. Deploredness (de-plored-nes), n. The state of being deplored; deplorableness. Bp. Hall. [Rare.] Deplorer (de-plorer), n. One who deplores or deeply laments; a deep mourner. Deploringly (de-plōr'ing-li), adv. In a deploring manner. Deploy (de-ploi'), v.t. [Fr. déployer-de, priv., and ployer, equivalent to plier, to fold, from L. plico, to fold. See PLY.] Milit. to display; to open; to extend in a line of small depth, as an army, a division, or a battalion which has been previously formed in one or more columns. Deploy (de-ploi'), v.i. To open; to extend; to form a more extended front or line. A column is said to deploy when it makes a flank march or unfolds itself, so as to display its front Sullivan Deploy, Deployment (de-ploi', de-ploi'ment), n. The expansion of a body of troops, DEPORTATION previously compacted into a column, so as to present a large front. Deplumation (de-plum-a'shon), n. [See DEPLUME.] 1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.-2. In med. a disease or swelling of the eyelids, with loss of hair. Deplume (dé-plum), v.t. pret. & pp. deplumed; ppr depluming. [L.L. deplumo, to strip off feathers-L de, priv, and plumo, to cover with feathers, from pluma, a fea ther.] To strip or pluck off feathers; to deprive of plumage. Such a person is like Homer's bird, deplumes himself to feather all the naked callows that he sees. Fer. Taylor. Depolarization (de-pō'lér-iz-a "shon), n. The act of depriving of polarity; the restoring of a ray of polarized light to its former state. Depolarize (de-pō'lér-iz), v.t. [Prefix de, priv., and polarize.] To deprive of polarity. Depone (de-pōn'), v.t. [L. depono, to lay down, to deposit-de, down, and pono, to place, lay.] 1. To lay down; to deposit. What basins, most capacious of their kind, Enclose her, while the obedient element Lifts or depones its burthen. Southey. 2. To lay down as a pledge; to wager. Hudibras. Depone (dē-pōn'), v. i. In old English and Scots law, to give testimony; to bear witness; to depose. Farther Sprot deponeth, that he entered himself thereafter in conference with Bour. State Trials. Not that he was in a condition to depone to every thing he tells. N. Brit. Rev. Deponent (de-pōn'ent), a. [L. deponens, deponentis, ppr. of depono de, and pono, to lay.] Laying down.-Deponent verb, in Latin gram. a verb which has a passive termination, with an active signification; as, loquor, to speak: so called because such verbs were regarded as having laid down their passive sense. Deponent (de-pōn'ent), n. 1. One who deposes or gives a deposition, especially under oath; one who gives written testimony to be used as evidence in a court of justice, or for any other purpose.-2. In Latin gram. a deponent verb. Depopularize (dē-po'pu-lèr-iz), v.t. To render unpopular. Westminster Rev. [Rare.] Depopulate (dē-po'pu-lat), v.t. pret. & pp. depopulated; ppr. depopulating. [L. depopulor, depopulatus, to lay waste, ravagede, intens., and populor, to ravage or lay waste, from populus, people.] To dispeople, to unpeople; to deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion. It is not synonymous with laying waste or de stroying, 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. Grim death, in different shapes, Depopulate (dē-po'pu-lat), v.i. To becop dispeopled. [Rare or obsolete.] This is not the place to enter into an m whether the country be depopulating or pot Depopulation (de-po'pu-la"shon), ". act of dispeopling; destruction or expulof inhabitants. Depopulator (de-po'pu-lat-ér), n. One or that which depopulates; one whor which destroys or expels the inhabiti a city, town, or country; a dispeople: Deport (de-port'), v. t. [Fr d banish; O. Fr. se deporter, to an self; L. deporto, to convey down banish-de, down, away, and gertut 1. To carry; to demean; to behav reciprocal pronoun. Let an ambassador deport himse graceful manner before a prince 2. To transport; to carry away country to another. He told us he had been depre hundred others like himself. [Compare the parallel meanin port, portly; carry, carriage Deport (de-port'), n. Beli demeanour; deportment deport. Milton. (Rare) Déport (da-por), A Fro term, equivalent to our FRIVATE anon unto me swere, ye shul my contree dere. Chaucer. 1-rán'ment), n. In law, Dent (which see). t), a. [L. derelictus, pp. of etum, to leave behind, ns, and relinquo, to leave linquo, to leave.] Left; king out a patent in Charles ne for derelict lands.' Sir kt), n. 1. In law, an article commodity thrown away, abandoned by the owner; ed at sea. disposed to a gay turn of thinkI was a derelict from my cradle, f a lawful claim to the best proSavage. and suddenly left dry by the I cultivation or use. r-e-lik'shon), n. [L. derelicning, from derelinquo, derePERELICT.] 1. The act of leavintention not to reclaim; an g; abandonment. 'A total of military duties.' Sir W. Scott. of being left or abandoned. not been thus forsaken, we had perition is our safety. Bp. Hall. ing of land from the water by retiring below the usual waterN. Abandonment, desertion, rerelinquishment. nize (de-re-lij'on-iz), v. t. To make [Rare.] 1 dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey. [ See DARLING.] Darling. n. th,ta. [A. Sax. deorwurthe.] Prealued at a high rate. Chaucer. e, v.t. To darrain. Chaucer. (de-rid), v.t. pret. & pp. derided; nding. [L. derideo-de, intens., and to laugh. To laugh at in contempt; In to ridicule or make sport of; to to treat with scorn by laughter. matisees also... derided him. Luke xvi. 16. , who adore Newton for his fluxions, deride 1r his religion. Berkeley. To mock, laugh at, ridicule, insult, ter, rally, jeer, jibe, rider (de-rid'ér), n. One who laughs at other in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. De riders of religion.' Hooker. Peridingly (dē-rīd'ing-li), adv. By way of Gerision or mockery. Derision (dē-ri'zhon), n. [L. derisio, a laughing to scorn, from derideo, derisum. See DERIDE.] 1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; contempt manifested by laughter; scorn. British policy is brought into derision in those nations that a while ago trembled at the power of our Burke. arms. 2. An object of derision or contempt; a laughing-stock. I was a derision to all my people. Lam. iii. 14. SYN. Scorn, mockery, insult, ridicule. Derisive (dē-ri'siv), a. Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing. 'Derisive taunts.' Pope. Derisively (de-rï'siv-li), adv. With mockery or contempt. Derisiveness (dē-ri'siv-nes), n. The state of being derisive. Derisory (de-ri'so-ri), a. Derisive; mocking; ridiculing. Derisory manner.' Shaftesbury. [Rare.] Derivable (de-riv'a-bl), a. [See DERIVE.] 1. That may be derived; that may be drawn or received, as from a source; as, income is derivable from land, money, or stocks. The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. 2. That may be received from ancestors; as, an estate derivable from an ancestor. 3. That may be drawn, as from premises: deducible; as, an argument derivable from facts or preceding propositions. The second sort of arguments... are derivable from some of these heads. Wilkins. 4. That may be drawn from a radical word; as, a word derivable from an Aryan root. Derivably (dē-riv'a-bli), adv. By deriva tion. DEPRECIATION Depreciation (dē-prē'shi-ā"shon), n. 1. The act of lessening or bringing down price or value.-2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. "This depreciation of their funds.' Burke.-3. The act of undervaluing in estimation; the state of being undervalued; as, given to depreciation of one's friends. Depreciative (dē-prē'shi-at-iv), a. Undervaluing. Depreciator (dē-prē ́shi-at-ér), n. One who depreciates. Depreciatory (dē-prē'shi-ā-to-ri), a. Tending to depreciate. Depredable (de'prē-da-bl), a. Liable to depredation. Bacon. Depredate (de'prē-dāt), v.t. pret. & pp. depredated; ppr. depredating. [L. deprædor, to plunder, pillage-de, intens., and prædor, to plunder, from præda, prey. See PREY.] 1. To plunder; to rob; to pillage; as, the army depredated the enemy's country. That kind of war which depredates and distresses individuals. Marshall. 2. To destroy by eating; to devour; to prey upon; to waste; to spoil; as, wild animals depredate the corn. It maketh the body more solid and compact, and so less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon. Depredate (de'prē-dāt), v.i. To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country. Depredation (de-pre-da'shon), n. 1. The act of plundering; a robbing; a pillaging. Sir H. Wotton.-2. Waste; consumption; a taking away by any act of violence; as, the sea often makes depredations on the land; intemperance commits depredations on the constitution.-3. In Scots law, the offence of driving away numbers of cattle or other bestial by the masterful force of armed persons; otherwise called Hership. Depredator (de'prē-dāt-ér), n. One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a waster. Depredatory (de'pre-da-to-ri), a. Plundering; spoiling; consisting in pillaging. 'Depredatory incursions.' Cook. Deprehend (de-pré-hend'), v.t. [L. deprehendo, to seize firmly, to take forcible possession of, to find out-de, intens., and prehendo, to take or seize.] 1. To catch; to take unawares or by surprise; to seize, as a person committing an unlawful act. As if thou wert pursude, Even to the act of some light sinne, and deprehended Спартан, So. 2. To detect; to discover; to obtain the knowledge of. 'Motions... to be deprehended by experience.' Bacon. Deprehensiblet (de-pre-hens'i-bl), a. That may be caught or discovered. Deprehensiblenesst (de-pre-hens'i-bl-nes), n. Capableness of being caught or discovered. Deprehension (de-pre-hen'shon), n. A catching or seizing; a discovery. Her deprehension is made an aggravation of her shame: such is the corrupt judgment of the world: to do ill troubles not man; but to be taken in doing it. Bp. Hall. Depress (dé-pres'), v.t. [L. deprimo, depressum, to depress-de, down, and premo, pressum, to press.] 1. To press down; to let fall to a lower state or position; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eye. Lips depressed as he were sad.' Tennyson.-2. To render dull or languid; to limit or diminish; as, to depress commerce. 3. To deject; to make sad; as, to depress the spirits or the mind. If the heart of man is depress'd with cares. The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. Gay. 4. To humble; to abase; as, to depress pride. 5. To impoverish; to lower in temporal estate; to bring into adversity; as, misfortunes and losses have depressed the merchants.-6. To lower in value; as, to depress the price of stock.-7. In. alg. to reduce to a lower degree, as an equation. To depress the pole (naut.), to cause the pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.-SYN. To sink, lower, abase, cast down, deject, humble, degrade, dispirit. Depresst (de-pres), a. Hollow in the centre; concave. If the seal be depress or hollow.' Hammond. Depressaria (de-pres-ā'ri-a), n. A genus of moths, family Tineide, whose caterpillars do great mischief to various umbelliferous plants, as carrots and parsnips, when left for seed, by eating off the flowers and capsules, sometimes even stripping off the leaves. 4 Depressed (de-prest'), p. and a. 1. Pressed or forced down; lowered; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled; sunk; rendered languid; low; flat; as, business is in a very depressed state.-2. In bot. (a) applied to a leaf which is hollow in the middle, or has the disc more depressed than the sides: used of succulent leaves, and opposed to convex. (b) Lying flat: said of a radical leaf which lies on the ground.-3. In zool. applied to the whole or part of an animal when its vertical section is shorter than the transverse.-4. In her. surmounted or debruised. See DEBRUISED. Depressingly (dē-pres′ing-li), adv. In a depressing manner. Depression (dē-pre'shon), 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. Should he (one born blind) draw his hand over a picture, where all is smooth and uniform, he would never be able to imagine how the several prominencies and depressions of a human body could be shown on a plain piece of canvas, that has in it no unevenness or irregularity. Spectator. 3. The act of humbling; abasement; as, the depression of pride. Depression of the nobility may make a king more absolute but less safe. Басоп. 4. A sinking of the spirits; dejection; a state of sadness; want of courage or animation; as, depression of the mind. 'In great depression of spirit.' Baker.-5. A low state of strength; a state of body succeeding debility in the formation of disease.-6. A state of dulness or inactivity; as, depression of trade; commercial depression. --7. In astron. (a) the sinking of the polar star toward the horizon, as a person recedes from the pole toward the equator. (b) The distance of a star from the horizon below, which is measured by an arc of the vertical circle or azimuth, passing through the star, intercepted between the star and the horizon.-8. In surg. couching; an operation for cataract which consists in the removal of the crystalline lens out of the axis of vision, by means of a needle.--Depression of an equation, in alg. the reduction of it to a lower degree, by dividing both sides of it by a common factor. In this way a biquadratic equation may be reduced to a cubic equation, a cubic to a quadratic equation--Angle of depression, the angle by which a straight line drawn from the eye to any object dips below the horizon. See DIP. SYN. Abasement, reduction, sinking, fall, humiliation, dejection, melancholy. Depressive (de-pres'iv), a. Able or tending to depress or cast down. May Liberty Depressor (dē-pres'èr), n. 1. One who Depriment (de'pri-ment), a. [L. deprimo, to depress.] Serving to depress; specifically, applied to certain muscles which pull downwards, as that which depresses the external ear, and the rectus inferior oculi which draws down the eyeball. [Rare or obsolete.] Deprisure (de-prīz'ür), n. [Fr. depriser, to depreciate-de, priv., and priser, from prix, L. pretium, price.] Low esteem; contempt; disdain. Deprivable (de-priv'a-bl), a. [See DEPRIVE.] That may be deprived; liable to be dispossessed or deposed. Or else make kings as resistable, censurable, deprivable, and liable to all kinds of punishments. Prynne. Deprivation (de-pri-vä'shon), n. [See DEPRIVE.] 1. The act of depriving; a taking away. Deprivation of civil rights is a species of penal infliction. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. A state of being deprived; loss; want; bereavement. Fools whose end is destruction and eternal depri vation of being. Bentley. 3. Degradation; deposition. The depri vation, death, and destruction of the queen's majesty. State Trials.-4. In law, the act DEPURATE 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 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. Deprive (dē-priv'), v.t. [L. de, intens., and privo, to take away. 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. 17. 2. To hinder from possessing or enjoying; to debar. From his face I shall be hid, deprived 3. To take away; to divest. Most happy he Milton. Whose least delight sufficeth to deprive Remembrance of all pains which him opprest. Spenser. 4. To divest of an ecclesiastical preferment, dignity, or office; to divest of orders, as a bishop, prebend, or vicar. A minister deprived for inconformity." Bacon.-5.† To injure or destroy. 'Melancholy hath deprived their judgments.' Reginald Scot.6. To prevent; keep off; avert.-SYN. TO strip, bereave, rob, despoil, dispossess, debar, divest. Deprivement (de-priv'ment), n. The act of depriving or state of being deprived. Milton. Depriver (dē-priv'èr), n. He who or that which deprives or bereaves. Deprostratet (dé-pros'trat), a. [Prefix de, intens., and prostrate.] Extremely prostrate; very low; mean. How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. G. Fletcher. Depth (depth), n. [From deep.] 1. Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the highest part, top, or surface to the lowest part or bottom, or to the extreme part downward or inward; the measure from the anterior to the posterior part; as, the depth of a river may be 10 feet; the depth of the ocean is unfathomable; the depth of a wound may be an inch; the battalion formed a column of great depth. In a vertical direction, depth is opposed to height. 2. A deep place; an abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity. Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory. And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour. Shak, 3. The sea; the ocean. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. 4. The inner, darker, or more concealed part of a thing; the middle, darkest, or stillest part; as, the depth of winter; the depth of night; the depth of a wood or forest. 5. Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as, the depth of a science.-6. Immensity; infinity; intensity. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. Rom. xi. 33 The depth of some divine despair. Tennyson. 7. Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as, depth of understanding; depth of skill. Depth, as a military term applied to a body of men, refers to 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. Depthent (depth'n), v.t. To deepen. Bailey. Depucelate † (de-pu'sē-lat), v.t. [Fr. dépu celer, to deflower-L. de, priv., and L.L pucella, a virgin.] To deflower; to rob of virginity. Cotgrave, Bailey. Depulset (de-puls'), v. t. [L. depello, depulsum, to drive down, to drive out or awayde, from, and pello, pulsum, to drive. ] To drive away. Cockeram. Depulsion (dē-pul'shon), n. [L. depulsio, depulsionis, a driving off or away, from depello, depulsum. See DEPULSE.] A driving or thrusting away. Speed. Depulsory (de-pul'so-ri), a. Driving or thrusting away; averting. Depulsory sacrifices.' Holland. Depurate (de'pur-at), v. t. pret. & pp. depurated; ppr. depurating. [L.L. depuro, depuratum, to purify-L. de, intens., and puro, puratum, to purify, from purus, pure, clean.] To purify; to free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to clarify. To depurate thy blood.' Boyle. DEPURATE Cleansed; pure. Boyle. Depuratet (de pür-åt), a Priestly began by ascertaining that air depurated by animals was purified by plants. Nature. Depuration (de-pûr-a'shon), n. 1. The act of purifying or freeing fluids from heterogeneous matter. 2. The cleansing of a wound from impure matter. Depurator (de'pur-at-ér), n One who or that which cleanses. Depuratory (de pùr-a-to-ri), a. Cleansing; purifying; tending to purify; specifically, applied to diseases which are considered capable of modifying the constitution advantageously by acting on the composition of the fluids, as eruptions, intermittents, &c.; also applied to medicines and diets, by which the same effect is sought to be induced. Depure (de-pûr'), v.t. To make pure; to cleanse; to purge. He shall first... be depured and clensed, before that he shall be Layde up for pure gold in the treasures of God. Sir T. More. Depurgatory (dě - pêr'gă-to-ri), a. That purges; serving to cleanse or purify. Depurition (de-pur-i'shon), n. The removal of impurities, as from the body; depuration. Deputation (de-pu-ta'shon), n. [Fr. députa tion; It deputazione. See DEPUTE.] 1. The act of appointing a substitute or representative to act for another; the act of appointing and sending a deputy or substitute to trans act business for another, as his agent, either with a special commission and authority, or with general powers. Their... deputa tions to offices of power and dignity.' Barrow. 2. A special commission or authority to act as the substitute of another; as, this man acts by deputation from the sheriff.-3. 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.-By deputation, or in deputation, by delegation; by means of a substitute. Shak. Say to great Cæsar this: In deputation I kiss his conquering hand. Deputator (de'püt-at-ér), n. One who grants deputation Locke. Depute (de-pût'), v.t. pret. & pp. deputed; ppr. deputing. [Fr. députer, to assign, to confide a mission to, from L. deputo, to esteem, consider, destine, allot-de, and puto, to prune, set in order, reckon, consider] 1. 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; as, the sheriff deputes a man to serve a writ. There is no man deputed by the king to hear. sacrament. 2. To set aside or apart; to assign. The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. Barrow. Depute (de pút), n. A deputy; a vicegerent; as, a sheriff-depute or advocate-depute. [Scotch.] The fashion of every depute carrying his own shell on his back in the form of his own carriage is a piece of very modern dignity. I myself rode circuits, when I was advocate-depule, between 1807 and 1810. Lord Cockburn, Deputize (de'pût-iz), v.t. pret. & pp. depu tized; ppr. deputizing. To appoint as deputy to empower to act for another, as a sheriff. [United States ] Deputy (de'pú-ti), n. [Fr député. See DEPUTE A person appointed or elected to act for another, especially a person sent with a special commission to act in the place of another; one that exercises an office in another's right; a lieutenant; a viceroy; as, a prince sends a deputy to a diet or council to represent him and his dominions; a sheriff appoints a deputy to execute the duties of his office. Much used in composition; as, deputy-sheriff, deputy-collector, deputy-marshal, deputy-postmaster, &c. SYN. Substitute, representative, legate, delegate, envoy, agent, factor. Dequace, t (L. de, down, and quatio, to shake To shake down. Chaucer. Dequantitate (de-kwon'ti-tat), r. t. [L. de, from and quantitas, quantitatis, quantity. See QUANTITY.] To diminish the quantity of Brown has words still more extraordinary, as feria. for keeping holiday, ... dequantitate, for diminish. Beattie. Deracinate (dē-ras'in-āt), v.t. pret. & pp. 5 deracinated; ppr. deracinating. [Fr. déraciner-de, and racine, a root, from a hypothetical L. form radicina, from radix, radicis, a root.] To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [Rare.] The coulter rusts Shak That should deracinate such savagery. Deracination (de-ras'in-a"shon), n. The act of plucking up by the roots. [Rare.] Deraign, Derain (dē-rån'), v.t. [Norm. dareigner, derener, to prove, to clear one's self-de, a verb-forming prefix, and G. rein, clear, clean; or from LL. derationare, in which case its origin would be the same as that of darraign (which see).] To prove; to justify; to vindicate, as an assertion; to clear one's self, either by proving one's own case or refuting that of an adversary. [An old law term now disused.] Deraign (dê-ran'), v. t. [See DERANGE.] To derange; to disorder; to disarrange. Deraignment, Derainment (de-ran'ment), n. (See DERAIGN.] In law, the act of deraining; proof; justification. Deraignment (dē-rān'ment), n. 1. The act of disordering or disarranging; a turning out of course.-2. A renunciation of profession, as of religious or monastic vows; apostasy. Derail (dē-ral'), v.t. [L. de, from, and E. rail, as in railway.] To run off the rails. [United States.) Derailment (dé-rål'ment), n. The act of a railway train or carriage running off the rails. [United States.] Derange (de-ranj), v. t. pret. & pp. deranged; ppr. deranging. [Fr. déranger-de, priv., and ranger, to set in order, from rang, rank. Akin rank, range (which see)] 1. To put out of order; to disturb the regular order of; to throw into confusion; as, to derange the plans of a commander or the affairs of a nation; his private affairs are deranged. The republic of regicide... has actually conquered the finest parts of Europe; has distressed, disunited, deranged, broke to pieces all the rest. Burke. 2. To disturb the action or functions of. A casual blow, or a sudden fall, deranges some of our internal parts, and the rest of life is distress and Blair. misery. 3. To disorder the intellect of; to unsettle the reason of.-4. To remove from place or office, as the personal staff of a principal military officer. Thus when a general officer resigns or is removed from office, the personal staff appointed by himself are said to be deranged. [Rare.]-SYN. To disorder, embarrass, disarrange, displace, unsettle, disturb, confuse, discompose, ruffle, discon cert. Derangement (dē-ranj'ment), n. 1. The act of deranging, or state of being deranged; a putting out of order; disturbance of regularity or regular course; embarrassment; disorder. From the complexity of its mechanism... liable to derangement.' Paley.2. Disorder of the intellect or reason; delirium; insanity; as, a derangement of the mental organs. SYN. Disorder, confusion, embarrassment, irregularity, disturbance, lunacy, insanity, madness, delirium, mania. Deray (dě-ra'), n. [O. Fr. derroi, desroi, desarro, disorder-from des (L. dis), and roi, rai, order. See ARRAY.] Tumult; disorder; merriment. [Scotch.] So have we found weddings celebrated with an outburst of triumph and deray, at which the elderly shook their heads. Carlyle. Derby (dérbi), n. A race for a sweepstakes of fifty sovereigns each, for three-year-old thorough-bred horses, founded in 1780 by the twelfth Earl of Derby, and run annually at Epsom, Surrey. It is the principal horserace in England. Derby-day (dér'bi-da), n. The day on which the Derby sweepstakes is run, which is the Wednesday before Whitsunday. Derbyshire Neck (dér bi-shér nek), n. Α name given to bronchocele, from its frequency in the hilly parts of Derbyshire. Derbyshire Spar(der bi-sher spår). Fluoride of calcium, a combination of lime with fluoric acid, found in great beauty and abundance in Derbyshire, whence it has obtained its name. It is also called Fluor-spar and Blue-john. See FLUOR-SPAR Der-doing (dérdo-ing), a. Pertaining to or characterized by derring-do, or gallant feats in arms. Me ill besits, that in der-doing armes And honours suit my vowed daies do spend. Spenser. Deret (der), v.t. [A. Sax. derian, to hurt.] To hurt. Dereignment (de-ran'ment), n. In law, same as Deraignment (which see). Derelict (der'e-likt), a. [L. derelictus, pp. of derelinquo, derelictum, to leave behind, abandon-de, intens, and relinquo, to leave -re, behind, and linquo, to leave.] Left; abandoned. "Taking out a patent in Charles the Second's time for derelict lands.' Sir P. Pett. Derelict (der'e-likt), n. 1. In law, an article of goods or any commodity thrown away, relinquished, or abandoned by the owner; a vessel abandoned at sea. When I am a little disposed to a gay turn of thinking, I consider, as I was a derelict from my cradle, I have the honour of a lawful claim to the best pro tection of Europe. Savage. 2. A tract of land suddenly left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use. Dereliction (der-e-lik'shon), n. [L. derelictio, an abandoning, from derelinquo, derelictum. See DERELICT.] 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim; an utter forsaking; abandonment. 'A total dereliction of military duties.' Sir W. Scott. 2. The state of being left or abandoned. Hadst thou not been thus forsaken, we had perished; thy dereliction is our safety. Bp. Hall. 3. The gaining of land from the water by the sea's retiring below the usual watermark. SYN. Abandonment, desertion, renunciation, relinquishment. Dereligionize (de-re-lij'on-iz), v. t. To make irreligious. [Rare.] He would dereligionize men beyond all others. Dereling, n. [ See DARLING.] Darling. Chaucer. Dereworth,ta. [A. Sax. deorwurthe.] Precious; valued at a high rate. Chaucer. Dereyne, v.t. To darrain. Chaucer. Deride (de-rid), v.t. pret. & pp. derided; ppr. deriding. [L. derideo-de, intens., and rideo, to laugh.] To laugh at in contempt; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to treat with scorn by laughter. The Pharisees also... derided him. Luke xvi. 16. Some, who adore Newton for his fluxions, deride him for his religion. Berkeley. SYN. To mock, laugh at, ridicule, insult, banter, rally, jeer, jibe. Derider (de-rid'èr), n. One who laughs at another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. 'Deriders of religion.' Hooker. Deridingly (dē-rid’ing-li), adv. By way of derision or mockery. Derision (de-ri'zhon), n. [L. derisio, a laughing to scorn, from derideo, derisum. See DERIDE.] 1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; contempt manifested by laughter; scorn. British policy is brought into derision in those nations that a while ago trembled at the power of our Burke. arms. 2. An object of derision or contempt; a laughing-stock. I was a derision to all my people. Lam. iii. 14. SYN. Scorn, mockery, insult, ridicule. Derisive (de-ri'siv), a. Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing, 'Derisive taunts.' Pope. Derisively (de-ri'siv-li), adv. With mockery or contempt. Derisiveness (dē-rï'siv-nes), n. The state of being derisive. Derisive; mockDerisory (de-ri'so-ri), a. ing; ridiculing. Derisory manner.' Shaftesbury. [Rare.] Derivable (dé-riv'a-bl), a. [See DERIVE.] 1. That may be derived; that may be drawn or received, as from a source; as, income is derivable from land, money, or stocks. The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. 2. That may be received from ancestors; as, an estate derivable from an ancestor. 3. That may be drawn, as from premises: deducible; as, an argument derivable from facts or preceding propositions. The second sort of arguments . . . are derivable from some of these heads. Wilkins. 4. That may be drawn from a radical word; as, a word derivable from an Aryan root. 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