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▪ I. deˈpauperate, ppl. a.
Also 5–6 -at.
[ad. L. dēpauperāt-us, pa. pple. of dēpauperāre: see next.]
Made poor; impoverished (obs. in general use); b. Bot., etc. = depauperated.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. 103 Alle tho that were depauperat and spoiled be his predecessoure. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 404 The depauperat saullis that this day dwell thairin. 1670Lex Talionis 26 It loses much of its vivacity, and becomes depauperate and affect. 1863A. Gray Lett. (1893) 508 Inclosed are depauperate specimens [of the seeds]. 1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Depauperate, impoverished; as if starved; diminished in size for want of favourable conditions of nourishment, and such like. Also..having no, or few, flowers.
▪ II. depauperate, v.|dɪˈpɔːpəreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. dēpauperāre to impoverish, reduce to poverty, f. de- I. 1 + pauperāre to make poor, f. pauper poor.]
trans. To render poor, to impoverish; to reduce in quality, vigour, or capacity.
1623Cockeram, Depauperate, to impouerish. 1647Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. ii. §7 To represent God in a carved stone, or a painted Table, does depauperate our understanding of God. 1668Phil. Trans. III. 891 The blood is now..depauperated of the spirituous and finer particles. 1708Molyneux ibid. XXVI. 59 Liming..doth not so much Depauperate the Ground. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 728 Bishops..had made shameful depredations on the church and depauperated many of the sees. 1886Ch. Times 5 Nov. 173/2 By depauperating the national creed.
Hence deˈpauperating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1770Monthly Rev. 20 In this depauperating and attenuating course the patient..persevered. |