Part 185

Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.

De*prive" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deprived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private.] 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.]

'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life.

Shak.

2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.

God hath deprived her of wisdom.

Job xxxix. 17.

It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself.

Macaulay.

3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.

A minister deprived for inconformity.

Bacon.

Syn. -- To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.

De*prive"ment (?), n. Deprivation. [R.]

De*priv"er (?), n. One who, or that which, deprives.

De*pros"trate (?), a. Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.]

How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style.

G. Fletcher.

De`pro*vin"cial*ize (?), v. t. To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

Depth (spth), n. [From Deep; akin to D. diepte, Icel. dpt, dpð, Goth. diupiþa.] 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

2. Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.

Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in depth or height.

Keble.

3. Lowness; as, depth of sound.

4. That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

From you unclouded depth above.

Keble.

The depth closed me round about.