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depreciated, ppl. a.|dɪˈpriːʃɪeɪtɪd| [f. prec. + -ed.] Lowered in value or estimation.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. 345 Receiving in money and accounting in depreciated paper. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 323 Old specie debts were often paid in a depreciated currency. 1836H. Coleridge North. Worthies (1852) I. 38 The depreciated value of estates and personal effects. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) II. ix. 33 Growing rich..on his profits from paying the troops in depreciated coin. |