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† depressure Obs.|dɪˈprɛʃ(j)ʊə(r)|
[f. L. ppl. stem dēpress- + -ure: cf. L. pressūra pressure, f. premĕre, press-.]
1. The action of pressing down; = depression 1.
1699E. Tyson in Phil. Trans. XXI. 432 That this depressure happened whilst the Bones were Cartilaginous.
2. concr. A depressed or sunken part of a surface; = depression 3.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xiii. (1626) 278 The purple blood from that depressure fled. 1675Evelyn Terra (1776) 38 To fill up the hollows and Depressures of the ground. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 106 Those uniform eminencies and depressures, those waved and transverse lineations.
3. fig. The action of putting down, bringing low, or humbling; debasement; = depression 4, 5.
1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 60 Earthly mindedness, though it doth no' quite degrade the soule of its immortality yet it is a great depressure and embasement thereof. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat (1852) II. 137 To give them an eminence..above others, which is as well answered by the depressure of everything else above them, as by their own advancement. |