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▪ I. † diˈlapidate, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.
Also 7 delapidat.
[ad. L. dīlapidāt-us, pa. pple. of dīlapidāre: see next.]
= dilapidated. (Chiefly as pa. pple.)
1590[see next 2]. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 114 It was taken An. 1622, and by them delapidat and depopulated. 1865Kingsley Herew. (1866) I. i. 29 The keep even in Leland's time..somewhat dilapidate.
▪ II. dilapidate, v.|dɪˈlæpɪdeɪt|
Also 7–9 de-.
[ad. L. dīlapidāre lit. ‘to scatter as if throwing stones’, to throw away, destroy, f. di-, dis- asunder + lapidāre to throw stones, f. lapid-em stone. Taken in Eng. in a more literal sense than was usual in L.]
1. trans. To bring (a building) into a state of decay or of partial ruin. Also fig.
1570Levins Manip. 41/36 To Dilapidate, dilapidare. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 216 A ruined Chappell..built by the Spaniard, and delapidated by the Dutch. 1706Sibbald Hist. Picts in Misc. Scot. I. 111 It has been sadly dilapidated of late, to obtain stones to build a house. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 14 The whole side was dilapidated, and seemed like the wing of a house shut up. 1854Lowell Jrnl. Italy Prose Wks. 1890 I. 208 His whole figure suddenly dilapidates itself, assuming a tremble of professional weakness.
2. fig. To waste, squander (a benefice or estate).
1590in Row Hist. Kirk (Maitland) 408 All quho have dilapidat benefices..to the preiudice of the Kirk. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. vi. 168 Those who by overbuilding their houses have dilapidated their lands. a1711Ken Serm. Wks. (1838) 160 Nothing..more certainly dilapidates their estates..than the surfeits of intemperance. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. vi. 234 note, Having dilapidated the revenues.
absol.1692H. Wharton Def. Pluralities 159 (T.) Many pluralists..do neither dilapidate, nor neglect alms.
3. intr. To become dilapidated; to fall into ruin, decay, or disrepair.
1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 25 [Charged] with the supervisal..of..the..House, to see that [it] be [not] permitted to dilapidate and fall into decay. 1775Johnson Journ. West. Isl., Elgin, The church of Elgin..was..shamefully suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference. 1858De Quincey Pope Wks. IX. 30 To find one's fortune dilapidating by changes so rapid.
Hence diˈlapidating ppl. a.
1779–81Johnson L.P., Dyer, In the neighbourhood of dilapidating Edifices. 1805Whitaker Hist. Craven 500 How..are our dilapidating churches to be rebuilt? 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 220 Thirty years..[have] exerted their dilapidating effects on [the obelisks]. |