they may acknowledge their dependency upon the crown of England. Bacon. 3. That which is not principal; that which is subordinate. We speak of the sublunary worlds, this earth and its dependencies, which rose out of a chaos about six thousand years ago. Burnet. Concatenation; connexion; rise of consequents from premises. Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense; Shakspeare. 5. Relation of any thing to another, as of an effect to its cause. I took pleasure to trace out the cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another in the visible creation. 6. Trust; reliance; confidence. Burnet. The expectation of the performance of our desire, is that we call dependence upon him for help and assistance. Stilling fleet. DEPENDENT. adj. [dependens, Latin. This, as many other words of like termination, are written with ent or ant, as they are supposed to flow from the Latin or French.] Hanging down. In the time of Charles the Great, and long since, the whole furs in the tails were dependent; but now that fashion is left, and the spots only worn, without the tails. Peacham, DEPENDENT. n.s. [from dependens,Lat.] One subordinate; one at the discretionor disposal of another. We are indigent, defenceless beings; the creatures of his power, and the dependents of his providence. Rogers. DEPENDER. n. s. [from depend.] A dependent; one that reposes on the kindness or power of another. What shalt thou expect, To be depender on a thing that leans? Shaks. DEPERDITION. n. s. [from deperditus, Latin.] Loss; destruction. It may be unjust to place all efficacy of gold in the non-omission of weights, or deperdition of any ponderous particles. Brown. DEPHLEGMATION.n.s.[from dephlegm.] - An operation which takes away from the phlegm any spirituous fluid by repeated distillation, till it is at length left Quincy. In divers cases it is not enough to separate the aqueous parts by dephlegmation; for some liquors contain also an unsuspected quantity of small corpuscles, of somewhat an earthy nature, which, being associated with the saline ones, do clog and blunt them, and thereby weaken their activity. Boyle. ail behind. To DEPHLE'GM. } v. a. [dephlegmo, low Latin.] To clear from phlegm, or aqueous insipid matter. We have sometimes taken spirit of salt, and carefully dephlegmed it. Boyle. DEPHLEGMEDNESS. n. s. [from dephlegm.] The quality of being freed from phlegm or aqueous matter. The proportion betwixt the coralline solution and the spirit of wine, depends so much upon the strength of the former liquor, and the dephlegmedness of the latter, that it is scarce possible to determine generally and exactly what quantity of each ought to be taken. Boyle. To DEPICT. v. a. [depingo, depictum, 1. To paint; to portray; to represent in The cowards of Lacedemon depicted upon their shields the most terrible beasts they could imagine. Tayler. 2. To describe; to represent an action to the mind. When the distractions of a tumult are sensibly depicted, every object and every occurrence are so presented to your view, that while you read you seem indeed to see them. Felten. DEPILATORY. n. s. [de and pilus, Lat.] DE'PILOUs. adj. [de and pilus, Latin.] An application used to take away hair. Without hair. This animal is a kind of lizard, or quadruped corticated and depiloss, that is, without wod, fur, or hair. Brown. DEPLANTATION. n. s. [deplante, Lat] Abstinence and a slender diet attenuates, be cause depletion of the vessels gives room to the DEPLORABLE. adj. [from deploro, Lat.] fluid to expand itself. Arbuthuat. 1. Lamentable; that demands or causes lamentation; dismal; sad; calamitous; miserable; hopeless. This was the deplorable condition to which the king was reduced. Clarenden. The bill, of all weapons, gives the most ghastly and deplorable wounds. Temple. It will be considered in how deplorable a state learning lies in that kingdom. Swift. 2. It is sometimes, in a more lax and jocular sense, used for contemptible; despicable: as,deplorable nonsense; deplor able stupidity. DEPLORABLENESS. n. s. [from deplera- DEPLO'RATE. adj. [deploratus, Latin.] The case is then most deplorate, when reward menter; a mourner; one that laments. DEPLUMA'TION. n. s. [deplumatio, La.) 1. A pluming, or plucking off the fea thers. 2. [In surgery.] A swelling of the eyelids, accompanied with the fall of the bairs from the eyebrows. Phillips To DEPLU'ME. v. a. [de and pluma, Latin.] To strip of its feathers. To DEPO'NE. v. a. [depono, Latin.] 1. To lay down as a pledge or security. 2. To risk upon the success of an adven ture. On this I would depone As much as any cause I've known. Hudibras. DEPO'NENT. n. s. [from depono, Latin] 1. One that deposes his testimony in a court of justice; an evidence; a wit ness. 2. [In grammar.] Such verbs as have no That would depopulate the city, and Shakspeare. unpro He turned his arms upon unarmed and vided people, to spoil only and depopulate, contrary to the laws both of war and peace. Bacon. A land exhausted to the last remains, Depopulated towns and driven plains. Dryden. Grim death, in different shapes, Depopulates the nations; thousands fall His victims. Philips. DEPOPULATION. n. s. [from depopulate] The act of unpeopling; havock; waste; destruction of mankind. How didst thou grieve then, Adam! to behold The end of all thy offspring, end so sad, Depopulation! Thee another flood, Of tears and sorrow a flood, thee also drown'd, And sunk thee as thy sons. Milton. Remote thou hear'st the dire effect of war, Depopulation. Philips. DEPOPULATOR. n. s. [from depopulate] A dispeopler; a destroyer of mankind; a waster of inhabited countries. To DEPO'RT. v. a. [deporter, French.] To carry; to demean; to behave: it is used only with the reciprocal pro The coldness of his temper, and the gravity of his department, carried him safe through many difficulties, and he lived and died in a great station. Swift To DEPO'SE. v, a. [depono, Latin.] Its shores are neither advanced one jot further into the sea, nor its surface raised by additional mud deposed upon it by the yearly inundations of the Nile. Woodward. 2. To degrade from a throne or high station. 3. First of the king: what shall of him become? May your sick fame still languish till it die; Then, as the greatest curse that I can give, Unpitied be depos'd, and after live! Dryden. Deposed consuls, and captive princes, might Tatler. have preceded him. To take away; to divest; to strip of Not in use. You may my glory and my state depose: But not my griefs; still am I king of those. Shakspeare. 4. To give testimony; to attest. T was he that made you to depose: Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. Shak. It was usual for him that dwelt in Southwark, or Tothill-street, to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands lying in the north, or other remote part of the realm. Bacon. 5. To examine any one on his oath. Not in use. According to our law, Depose him in the justice of his cause. Shaksp. To DEPO'SE. v. n. To bear witness. Love straight stood up and deposed, a lye could not come from the mouth of Zelmane. Sidney. DEPO'SITARY. n. s. [depositarius, Latin.] One with whom any thing is lodged in trust. I gave you all; Shakspeare. Made you my guardians, my depositaries; But kept a reservation, to be follow'd With such a number. To DEPO'SITE. v. a. [depositum, Lat.] 1. To lay up; to lodge in any place. The eagle got leave here to deposite her eggs. L'Estrange. Dryden wants a poor square foot of stone, "to shew where the ashes of one of the greatest poets Garth. on earth are deposited. When vessels were open, and the insects had free access to the aliment within them, Redi diligently observed, that no other species were produced, but of such as he saw go in and feed, and deposite their eggs there, which they would readily do in all putrefaction Bentley 2. To lay up as a pledge, or security. 3. To place at interest. 4. God commands us to return, as to him, to the poor, his gifts out of mere duty and thankfulness; not to deposite them with him in hopes of meriting by them. Spratt. To lay aside. The difficulty will be to persuade the depositing of those lusts which have, by what fascination, so endeared themselves. know not Deray of Piety. DEPO'SITE. n. s. [depositun, Latin.] 1. Any thing committed to the trust and care of another. 3 G 2. A pledge; a pawn; a thing given as a security. 3. The state of a thing pawned or pledged. They had since Marseilles, and fairly left it: they had the other day the Valtoline, and now Bacon. have put it in deposite. DEPOSITION n. s. [from depositio, Lat.] 1. The act of giving publick testimony. If you will examine the veracity of the fa thers by those circumstances usually considered in depositions, you will find them strong on their Sir K. Digby. side. A witness is obliged to swear, otherwise his deposition is not valid. Ayliffe's Parergon. 2. The act of degrading a prince from sovereignty. 3. [In canon law.] Deposition properly signifies a solemn depriving of a man of his clerical orders. Ayliffe's Parergon. DEPOSITORY. n. s. [from deposite.] The place where any thing is lodged. Depo- 1. sitary is properly used of persons, and depository of places; but in the following example they are confounded. The Jews themselves are the depositories of all the prophecies which tend to their own confuAddison. sion. DEPRAVA'TION. n. s. [depravatio, Lat.] 1. The act of making any thing bad; the act of corrupting; corruption. The three forms of government have their several perfections, and are subject to their several depravations: however, few states are ruined by defect in their institution, but generally by corSwift. ruption of manners. 2. The state of being made bad; degeneracy; depravity. We have a catalogue of the blackest sins that human nature, in its highest depravation, is caSouth. pable of committing. 3. Defamation; censure: a sense not now in use. Stubborn criticks are apt, without a theme For depravation, to square all the sex. Shaksp. To DEPRAVE. v. a. [depravo, Latin.] To vitiate; to corrupt; to contaminate. We admire the providence of God in the continuance of scripture, notwithstanding the endeavours of infidels to abolish, and the fraudulence of hereticks to deprave, the same. Hooker. Who lives that's not depraved, or depraves? Shakspeare. But from me what can proceed Milton, A taste which plenty does deprave, Dryden. DEPRAVEDNESS. n. s. [from deprave.] Corruption; taint; contamination; vitiated state. What sins do you mean? Our original deprav dness, and proneness of our eternal part to all Hammond. evil. DEPRAVEMENT. n. s. [from deprave.] A vitiated state; corruption. He maketh men believe, that apparitions are either deceptions of sight, or melancholy depravements of fancy. Brown. DEPRA'VER. n. s. [from deprave.] A corrupter; he that causes depravity. DEPRAVITY. n. s. [from deprave.] Corruption; a vitiated state. DEPRECATE, v. a. I, with leave of speech implor'd, Prist. And humble deprecation, thus replied. Milton. Sternutation they generally conceived to be a good sign, or a bad one; and so, upon this me tion, they commonly used a gratulation for the Brown. one, and a deprecation for the other. 2. Intreaty; petitioning. 3. An excusing; a begging pardon for. DEPRECATIVE, adj. [from deprecate.] DE'PRECATORY. That serves to deprecate; apologetick; tending to avert evil by supplication. Bishop Fox understanding that the Scottish king was still discontent, being troubled that the occasion of breaking of the truce should grow from his men, sent many humble and depreca tory letters to the Scottish king to appease him. They presumed upon that mercy, which, ia all their conversations, they endeavour to depre ciate and misrepresent. Addies. As there are none more ambitious of fame, than those who are coiners in poetry, it is very natural for such as have not succeeded in it to depreciate the works of those who have. To DE'PREDATE. v. a. 1. To rob; to pillage. 2. To spoil; to devour. Spectator. [depradari, Bes It maketh the substance of the body more solid and compact, and so less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. DEPREDATION. n.s. [deprædatio, Lat.] 1. A robbing; a spoiling. Commissioners were appointed to determine all matters of piracy and depredations between the subjects of both kingdoms. Hayward. The land had never been before so free from robberies and depredations as through his reign. Wetten. Were there not one who had said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther; we might well expect such vicissitudes, such clashing in nature, and such depredations and changes of sea and Woodward. land. 2. Voracity; waste. DEPREHENSIBLENESS. 7.s. 1. Capableness of being caught. 2. Intelligibleness; easiness to be understood. DEPREHENSION. n.s. [deprehensio, Lat.] 1. A catching or taking unawares. 2. A discovery. To DEPRESS. v. a. [from depressus, of deprimo, Lat.] 1. To press or thrust down. 2. To let fall; to let down. The same thing I have tried by letting a globe rest, and raising or depressing the eye, or otherwise moving it, to make the angle of a just Newton. magnitude. 3. To humble; to deject; to sink. Others depress their own minds, despond at the first difficulty, and conclude that the making any progress in knowledge is above their capaLocke. cities. If we consider how often it breaks the gloom, which is apt to depress the mind, with transient unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. Addison. Passion can depress or raise Prior. Bricks of a rectangular form, if laid one by another in a level row between supporters sustaining the two ends, all the pieces between will necessarily sink by their own gravity; and much more, if they suffer any depression by other Wotton. weight above them. 2. The sinking or falling in of a surface. The beams of light are such subtile bodies, that, in respect of them, even surfaces that are sensibly smooth are not exactly so they have their own degree of roughness, consisting of little protuberances and depressions; and consequently such inequalities may suffice to give bodies different colours, as we see in marble that appears white or black, or red or blue, even when most carefully polished. Boyle If the bone be much depressed, and the fissure considerably large, it is then at your choice, whether you will enlarge that fissure, or continue it for the evacuation of the matter, and forbear the use of the trepan; not doubting but a small depression of the bone will either rise, or cast off, by the benefit of nature. Wiseman. 3. The act of humbling; abasement. Depression of the nobility may make a king more absolute, but less safe. Bacon. DEPRESSION of an Equation [in algebra] is the bringing it into lower and more simple terms by division. -Dict. DEPRESSION of a Star [with astronomers] is the distance of a star from the horizon below; and is measured by the arch of the verticle circle or azimuth, passing through the star, intercepted between the star and the horizon. Dict. DEPRESSOR. 7. s. [depressor, Latin.] 1. He that keeps or presses down. 2. An oppressor. DEPRESSOR. [In anatomy.] A term given to several muscles of the body, whose action is to depress the parts to which they adhere. DE'PRIMENT. adj. [from deprimens, of deprimo, Lat. An epithet applied to one of the straight muscles that move the globe or ball of the eye, its use being to pull it downward. The exquisite equilibration of all opposite and antagonist muscles is effected partly by the natu ral posture of the body and the eye, which is the case of the attollent and depriment muscles. Derham. DEPRIVATION. n. s, [from de and pri vatio, Latin.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away from. 2. The state of losing. Fools whose end is destruction, and/eternal deprivation of being. Bentley. DEPRIVATION [in law] is when a clergyman, as a bishop, parson, vicar, or prebend, is deprived, or deposed from his preferment, for any matter in fact or law. Philips. To DEPRIVE. v. a. [from de and privo, Latin.] 1. To bereave one of a thing; to take it away from him: with of. God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. Job. He lamented the loss of an excellent servant, and the horrid manner in which he had been Clarendon. deprived of him. Now wretched Oedipus, depriv'd of sight, Led a long death in everlasting night. Pope. 2. To hinder; to debar from: Milton uses it without of. From his face I shall be hid, depriv'd His blessed countenance. 3G2 Milton. Whose least delight sufficeth to deprive Remembrance of all pains which him opprest. Spenser. 4. To put out of an office. A minister, deprived for inconformity, said, that if they deprived him, it should cost an hundred men's lives. Bacon. DEPTH. n.s. [from deep; of diep, Dutch.] 1. Deepness; the measure of any thing from the surface downward. As for men, they had buildings in many places higher than the depth of the water. Bacon. We have large and deep caves of several defaks: the deepest are sunk six hundred fathoms. Bacon. The left to that unhappy region tends, Which to the depth of Tartarus descends. Dryd. For tho', in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite; In poetry the height we know, 'Tis only infinite below. 2. Deep place; not a shoal. Swift. The false tides skim o'er the cover'd land, And seamen with dissembled depths betray. . Dryden. 3. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity. When he prepared the heavens I was there, when he set a compass upon the face of the depth. Proverbs. 4. The middle or height of a season. The earl of Newcastle, in the depth of winter, rescued the city of York from the rebels. 5. Abstruseness; obscurity. Clarendon. There are greater depths and obscurities in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse tract of school divinity. Addison's Whig Examiner. DEPTH of a Squadron or Battalion, is the number of men in the file. Mifit. Dict To DEPTHEN. v. a. [diepen, Dutch.] To deepen, or make deeper. Dict. To DEPUCELATE. v. a. [depuceler, Fr.] To deflour; to bereave of virginity. Dict. DEFULSION. n. s. [depulsio, Lat.] A beating or thrusting away. DEPULSORY. adj. [from depulsus, Lat.] Putting away; averting. Dict. To DEPURATE. v. a. [depurer, Fr. from depurgo, Lat.] To purify; to cleanse, to free any thing from its impurities. Chemistry enabling us to depurate bodies, and in some measure to analize them, and take asunder their heterogeneous parts, in many chemical experiments we may, better than in others, know what manner of bodies we employ. Boyi. DEPURATE. adj. [from the verb.] 1. Cleansed; freed from dregs and impu rities. 2. Pure; not contaminated. Neither can any boast a knowledge depurate from the defilement of a contrary, within this atmosphere of flesh. Glanville. DEPURATION. n. s. [depuratio, Latin.] 1. The act of separating the pure from the impure part of any thing. Brimstone is mineral body, of fat and inflammable parts: and this is either used crude, and called sulphur vive; or is of a sadder colour, and, after depuration, such as we have in mag deleons, or rolls of a lighter yellow. Broton What hath been hitherto discoursed, inclines us to look upon the ventilation, and depuration of the blood as one of the principal and constant uses of respiration. Bogle. 2. The cleansing of a wound from its matter. To DEPU'RE. v. a. [depurer, French.} 1. To cleanse; to free from impurities. 2. To purge; to free from some noxious quality. It produced plants of such imperfection and harniful quality, as the waters of the general flood could not so wash out or depure, but that the same defection hath had continuance in the verygeneration and nature of mankind. Raleigh, DEPUTATION, n. s. [deputation, Fr.] 1. The act of deputing, or sending away with a special commission. 2. Vicegerency; the possession of any commission given. Cut me off the heads Of all the fav'rites that the absent king In deputation left behind him here When he was personal in the Irish war. Shak. He looks not below the moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs into sublunary deputations, Brews The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. Sento. To DEPUTE. v. a. [deputer, Fr.] To send with a special commission; to im power one to transact instead of another. And Absalom said unto him, See, the matters are good and right, but there is no man dipated of the king to hear. 2 Samal And Isimus thus, deputed by the rest, The heroes welcome and their thanks express'd Romanis. A bishop, by deputing a priest or chaplain to administer the sacraments, may remove him. Ayliffe's Parerg DEPUTY. n.s. [deputé, French; from. že putatus, Latin.] 1. A lieutenant; a viceroy; one that is appointed by a special commission to govern or act instead of another. He exerciseth dominion over them as the vicegerent and deputy of Almighty God. Hak. He was vouched his immediate deputy upon earth, and viceroy of the creation, and ford lieutenant of the world. 2. Any one that transacts business for another. Presbyters, absent through infirmity from their churches, might be said to preach by the deputies, who, in their stead, did but read hom lies. Hecker |