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▪ I. † deˈteriorate, -at, pa. pple. Sc.
[ad. L. dēteriōrāt-us, pa. pple. of dēteriōrāre (see prec.).]
Made worse, deteriorated.
1572Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 76 (Jam.) That all houses, &c., rewinit, cassin doun, distroyit, or deteriorat, within..the said burghe—sall be reparit. 1598in Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 190 If he hes meliorat or deteriorat his benefice any way to the prejudice of his successor.
▪ II. deteriorate, v.|dɪˈtɪərɪəreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. dēteriōrāre to make worse: see prec.]
1. trans. To make worse or of inferior quality; to lower in character or excellence; to worsen.
1572–98[See prec.]. 1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings i. 10 How much more they deteriorate and depresse Kings. 1673O. Walker Educ. 46 Not onely not bettered, but much deteriorated. 1784Cowper Let. 10 Feb., A long line of grandsires, who from generation to generation have been employed in deteriorating the breed. 1813Wellington in Gurw. Desp. X. 380 Maintained by means..which will deteriorate the discipline of the troops. 1847C. G. Addison Law of Contracts ii. iii. §2 (1883) 603 To deteriorate the value of the property. 1879M. Arnold George Sand Mixed Ess. 343 Equality, as its reign proceeded, had not deteriorated but improved them.
2. intr. To grow worse in character; to become lowered or impaired in quality or value; to degenerate.
1758–65Goldsm. Ess. (L.), Under such conditions the mind rapidly deteriorates. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 269 Elyot had a notion that, for the last thousand years, the world had deteriorated. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 22 The condition of the labourer was at this period deteriorating rapidly. 1892Kath. Tynan in Speaker 3 Sept. 290/1 The roses..will deteriorate year after year, returning gradually to wildness.
Hence deˈteriorated ppl. a., deˈteriorating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1656Blount Glossogr., Deteriorated, made worse, impaired; spoiled. a1691Boyle Wks. IV. 367 (R.) Which we concluded to have proceeded from the deteriorated metal. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. vi. (1852) 170 Classical story has imperceptibly lent its deteriorating influence. 1837Syd. Smith Let. to Singleton Wks. 1859 II. 292/2 Judging, that the Church is a very altered and deteriorated profession. 1883F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) XXXVII. 434/3 The deteriorating, if not debasing, mode of existence. |