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2. That which depends; corollary; consequence.
With all its circumstances and dependents . Prynne.
&hand; See the Note under Dependant .
Dependently <Xpage=392>
De*pend"ent*ly , adv. In a dependent manner.
Depender <Xpage=392>
De*pend"er (?) , n. One who depends; a dependent.
Dependingly <Xpage=392>
De*pend"ing*ly , adv. As having dependence.
Hale.
Depeople <Xpage=392>
De*peo"ple (?) , v. t. To depopulate. [Obs.]
Deperdit <Xpage=392>
De*per"dit (?) , n. [LL. deperditum , fr. L. deperditus , p. p. of deperdere ; de- + perdere to lose, destroy.] That which is lost or destroyed. [R.]
Paley.
Deperditely <Xpage=392>
De*per"dite*ly (?) , adv. Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked . [Archaic]
Deperdition <Xpage=392>
Dep`er*di"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. d\'82perdition .] Loss; destruction. [Archaic]
Sir T. Browne.
Depertible <Xpage=392>
De*per"ti*ble (?) , a. [See Depart .] Divisible. [Obs.]
Bacon.
Dephlegm <Xpage=392>
De*phlegm" (?) , v. t. [Pref. de- + phlegm water; cf. F. d\'82phlegmer , d\'82flegmer .] (O. Chem.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. [Obs.]
Boyle.
Dephlegmate <Xpage=392>
De*phleg"mate (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dephlegmated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dephlegmating .] [See Dephlegm .] (Chem.) To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.
Dephlegmation <Xpage=392>
De`phleg*ma"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. d\'82flegmation .] (Chem.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration , especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]
Dephlegmator <Xpage=392>
De*phleg"ma*tor (?) , n. An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
Dephlegmatory <Xpage=392>
De*phleg"ma*to*ry (?) , a. Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
Dephlegmedness <Xpage=392>
De*phlegm"ed*ness (?) , n. A state of being freed from water. [Obs.]
Boyle.
Dephlogisticcate <Xpage=392>
De`phlo*gis"tic*cate (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dephlogisticated (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dephlogisticating .] [Pref. de- + phlosticate : cf. F. d\'82phlogistiguer .] (O. Chem.) To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.
Priestley.
Dephlogisticated air , oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time.
-- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion (#) , n.
Dephosphorization <Xpage=392>
De*phos`phor*i*za"tion (?) , n. The act of freeing from phosphorous.
Depict <Xpage=392>
De*pict" (?) , p. p. [L. depictus , p. p. of depingere to depict; de- + pingere to paint. See Paint , and cf. Depaint , p . p .] Depicted.
Lydgate.
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Depict <Xpage=393>
De*pict" (?) , p. p. [L. depictus , p. p. of depinger<?/ to depict; de- + pingere to paint. See Paint , and cf. Depaint , p . p .] Depicted.
Lydgate.
Depict <Xpage=393>
De*pict" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depicted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depicting .] 1. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.
2. To represent in words; to describe vividly.
C\'91sar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley.
Depiction <Xpage=393>
De*pic"tion (?) , n. [L. depictio .] A painting or depicting; a representation.
Depicture <Xpage=393>
De*pic"ture (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depictured (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depicturing .] To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.
Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
Depilate <Xpage=393>
Dep"i*late (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depilated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depilating .] [L. depilatus , p. p. of depilare to depilate; de- + pilare to put forth hairs, pilus hair.] To strip of hair; to husk.
Venner.
Depilation <Xpage=393>
Dep`i*la"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. d\'82pilation .] Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.
Dryden.
Depilatory <Xpage=393>
De*pil"a*to*ry (?) , a. [Cf. F. d\'82pilatoire .] Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n. An application used to take off hair.
Depilous <Xpage=393>
Dep"i*lous (?) , a. [Pref. de- + pilous : cf. L. depilis .] Hairless.
Sir t. Browne.
Deplanate <Xpage=393>
De*pla"nate (?) , a. [L. deplanetus , p. p. of deplanare to make level. See Plane , v. t. ] (Bot.) Flattened; made level or even.
Deplant <Xpage=393>
De*plant" (?) , v. t. [Pref. de- + plan : cf. F. d\'82planter , L. deplantare to take off a twig. See Plant , v. t. ] To take up (plants); to transplant. [R.]
Deplantation <Xpage=393>
De`plan*ta"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. d\'82plantation .] Act of taking up plants from beds.
Deplete <Xpage=393>
De*plete" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depleted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depleting .] [From L. deplere to empty out; de- + plere to fill. Forined like replete , complete . See Fill , Full , a. ] 1. (Med.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
Copland.
2. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
Saturday Review.
Depletion <Xpage=393>
De*ple"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. d\'82pl\'82tion .]
1. The act of depleting or emptying.
2. (Med.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Depletive <Xpage=393>
De*ple"tive (?) , a. [Cf. F. d\'82pl\'82tif .] Able or fitted to deplete. -- n. A substance used to deplete.
Depletory <Xpage=393>
De*ple"to*ry (?) , a. Serving to deplete.
Deplication <Xpage=393>
Dep`li*ca"tion (?) , n. [LL. deplicare to unfold; L. de- + plicare to fold.] An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. [Obs.]
W. Montagu.
Deploitation <Xpage=393>
Dep`loi*ta"tion (?) , n. [Cf. Exploitation , Deploy .] Same as Exploitation.
Deplorability <Xpage=393>
De*plor`a*bil"i*ty (?) , n. Deplorableness.
Stormonth.
Deplorable <Xpage=393>
De*plor"a*ble (?) , a. [Cf. F. d\'82plorable .] Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable .
Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.
Deplorableness <Xpage=393>
De*plor"a*ble*ness , n. State of being deplorable.
Deplorably <Xpage=393>
De*plor"a*bly , adv. In a deplorable manner.
Deplorate <Xpage=393>
De*plo"rate (?) , a. [L. deploratus , p. p. of deplorare . See Deplore .] Deplorable. [Obs.]
A more deplorate estate. Baker.
Deploration <Xpage=393>
Dep`lo*ra"tion (?) , n. [L. deploratio : cf. F. d\'82ploration .] The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
Speed.
Deplore <Xpage=393>
De*plore" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deplored (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deploring .] [L. deplorare ; de- + plorare to cry out, wail, lament; prob. akin to pluere to rain, and to E. flow: cf. F. d\'82plorer. Cf. Flow.] 1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton.
As some sad turtle his lost love deplores . Pope.
2. To complain of. [Obs.]
Shak.
3. To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.]
Bacon.
Syn. -- To Deplore , Mourn , Lament , Bewail , Bemoan . Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children.
Deplore <Xpage=393>
De*plore" , v. i. To lament.
Gray.
Deploredly <Xpage=393>
De*plor"ed*ly (?) , adv. Lamentably.
Deploredness <Xpage=393>
De*plor"ed*ness , n. The state of being deplored or deplorable. [R.]
Bp. Hail.
Deplorement <Xpage=393>
De*plore"ment (?) , n. Deploration. [Obs.]
Deplorre <Xpage=393>
De*plor"re (?) , n. One who deplores.
Deploringly <Xpage=393>
De*plor"ing*ly , adv. In a deploring manner.
Deploy <Xpage=393>
De*ploy" (?) , v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Deployed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deploying .] [F. d\'82ployer ; pref. d\'82<?/ = d\'82s (L. dis ) + ployer , equiv. to plier to fold, fr. L. plicare . See Ply , and cf. Display .] (Mil.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy ; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle .
Deploy, Deployment <Xpage=393>
De*ploy" (?) , De*ploy"ment (?) , n. (Mil.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.
-Wilhelm.
Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. Scott.
Deplumate <Xpage=393>
De*plu"mate (?) , a. [LL. diplumatus , p. p. of deplumare . See Deplume .] (Zo\'94l.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
Deplumation <Xpage=393>
Dep`lu*ma"tion (?) , n. [See Deplumate .] 1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Bp. Stillingfleet
2. (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
Thomas.
Deplume <Xpage=393>
De*plume" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deplumed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depluming .] [LL. deplumare ; L. de- + plumare to cover with feathers, pluma feather: cf. deplumis featherless, and F. d\'82plumer .] 1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.
2. To lay bare; to expose.
The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.
Depolarization <Xpage=393>
De*po`lar*i*za"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. d\'82polarisation .] The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
Depolarization of light (Opt.) , a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition.
Depolarize <Xpage=393>
De*po"lar*ize (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depolarized (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depolarizing .] [Pref. de- + polarize : cf. F. d\'82polarizer .] 1. (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
&hand; This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer.
2. (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
Depolarizer <Xpage=393>
De*po"lar*i`zer (?) , n. (Elec.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
Depolish <Xpage=393>
De*pol"ish (?) , v. t. To remove the polish or glaze from.
Depolishing <Xpage=393>
De*pol"ish*ing (?) , n. (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian.
Knight.
Depone <Xpage=393>
De*pone" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deponed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deponing .] [L. deponere , depositum , to put down, in LL., to assert under oath; de- + ponere to put, place. See Position , and cf. Deposit .]
1. To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.]
Hudibras.
2. To lay down. [R.]
Southey.
3. To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism]
Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).
Depone <Xpage=393>
De*pone" , v. i. To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism]
The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.
Deponent <Xpage=393>
De*po"nent (?) , n. [L. deponenes , -entis , laying down. See Depone , v. t. ] 1. (Law) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.
2. (Gr. & Lat. Gram.) A deponent verb.
Syn. -- Deponent , Affiant . These are legal terms describing a person who makes a written declaration under oath, with a view to establish certain facts. An affiant is one who makes an affidavit, or declaration under oath, in order to establish the truth of what he says. A deponenet is one who makes a deposition, or gives written testimony under oath, to be used in the trial of some case before a court of justice. See under Deposition .
Deponent <Xpage=393>
De*po"nent , a. [L. deponens , -entis , laying down (its proper passive meaning), p. pr. of deponere : cf. F. d\'82ponent . See Depone .] (Gram.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.
Depopulacy <Xpage=393>
De*pop"u*la*cy (?) , n. Depopulation; destruction of population. [R.]
Chapman.
Depopulate <Xpage=393>
De*pop"u*late (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depopulated (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depopulating (?) .] [L. depopulatus , p. p. of depopulari to ravage; de- + populari to ravage, fr. populus people: cf. OF. depopuler , F. d\'82peupler . See People .] To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city? Shak.
&hand; 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; as, the deluge depopulated the earth.
Depopulate <Xpage=393>
De*pop"u*late , v. i. To become dispeopled. [R.]
Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.
Depopulation <Xpage=393>
De*pop`u*la"tion (?) , n. [L. depopulatio pillaging: cf. F. d\'82population depopulation.] The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
The desolation and depopulation [of St.Quentin] were now complete. Motley.
Depopulator <Xpage=393>
De*pop"u*la`tor (?) , n. [L., pillager.] One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
Deport <Xpage=393>
De*port" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deported ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deporting .] [F. d\'82porter to transport for life, OF., to divert, amuse, from L. deportare to carry away; de- + portare to carry. See Port demeanor.]
1. To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.
2. To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince. Pope.
Deport <Xpage=393>
De*port" (?) , n. Behavior; carrige; demeanor; deportment. [Obs.] "Goddesslike deport ."
Milton.
Deportation <Xpage=393>
De`por*ta"tion (?) , n. [L. depotatio : cf.F. d\'82portation .] The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
In their deportations , they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.
Deportment <Xpage=393>
De*port"ment (?) , n. [F. d\'82portement misconduct, OF., demeanor. See Deport .] Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carrige; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties. Swift.
Deporture <Xpage=393>