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depraved, ppl. a.|dɪˈpreɪvd|
[f. prec. + -ed, repr. L. dēprāvātus, F. dépravé.]
1. Rendered bad or worse; perverted, vitiated, debased, corrupt. Now chiefly of taste, appetite, and the like.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. iv. (1660) 113 We take no notice of any other forme..but onely of this depraved shape. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 73 Convulsion is a depraved motion of the Muscles. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 363 She corrected a depraved place in Cyprian. 1712Steele Spect. No. 268 ⁋4 If they would but correct their depraved Taste. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 34 A depraved Appetite, is when a person desires to eat and drink things that are unfit for food; as..earth, mortar, chalk, and such like things. 1807Opie Lect. Art iv. (1848) 321 A moderately lively red..will appear brilliant, if surrounded by others of the same class but of a more depraved quality. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 37 Fruit..every species here is dwindled in growth and depraved in flavour. 1889J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Women xvi. (ed. 4) 119 The women are always in what may be vaguely called, depraved health.
2. spec. Rendered morally bad; corrupt, wicked.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. x. §1 Presuming man to be, in regard of his depraued minde, little better than a wild beast. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 806 So all shall turn degenerate, all deprav'd. 1736Butler Anal. i. v. Wks. 1874 I. 102 Depraved creatures want to be renewed. 1798Ferriar Illustr. Sterne i. 11 The morals of the Court were most depraved. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (C.D. ed.) 221 A place of resort for the worst and most depraved characters. |