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<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Eccl. Law)</fld> <def>the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Deprivation</i> may be <i>a beneficio</i> or <i>ab officio</i>; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.</note>

<h1>Deprive</h1> <Xpage=394>

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

<blockquote>'Tis honor to deprive <b>dishonored</b> life. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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

<blockquote>God hath <b>deprived</b> her of wisdom. <i>Job xxxix. 17.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It was seldom that anger <b>deprived</b> him of power over himself. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.</def>

<blockquote>A miniser <b>deprived</b> for inconformity. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.</syn>

<h1>Deprivement</h1> <Xpage=394>

<hw>De*prive"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Deprivation.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Depriver</h1> <Xpage=394>

<hw>De*priv"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, deprives.</def>

<h1>Deprostrate</h1> <Xpage=394>

<hw>De*pros"trate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his <b>deprostrate</b> style. <i>G. Fletcher.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deprovincialize</h1> <Xpage=394>

<hw>De`pro*vin"cial*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.</def>

<h1>Depth</h1> <Xpage=394>

<hw>Depth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Deep</er>; akin to D. <ets>diepte</ets>, Icel. <ets>d<?/pt</ets>, <ets>d<?/p<?/</ets>, Goth. <ets>diupi<?/a</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward from the front; <as>as, the <ex>depth</ex> of a river; the <ex>depth</ex> of a body of troops.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; <as>as, <ex>depth</ex> of knowledge, or color</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in <b>depth</b> or height. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Lowness; <as>as, <ex>depth</ex> of sound</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; <as>as, the <ex>depth</ex> of night, or of winter</as>.</def>