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单词 depasture
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depasturev.

/dɪˈpɑːstjʊə//dɪˈpastjʊə//dɪˈpɑːstʃə//dɪˈpastʃə/
Etymology: < de- prefix 1a + pasture v.; compare, for sense, Old French depaistre (Cotgrave desp-), < Latin dēpāscĕre to eat down, consume.
1. transitive. Of cattle: To consume the produce of (land) by grazing upon it; to use for pasturage.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > destroy the growth of plants, etc.
slayc1325
bruise?1523
overgrow?1523
nip1575
starve1578
depasturea1599
bedasha1616
victimize1849
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 35 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) To keepe their cattle..pasturing upon the mountaine..and removing still to fresh land, as they have depastured the former.
a1796 Vancouver in A. Young Ess. Agric. (1813) II. 284 The sheep and cow cattle, with which the primest of the grass lands through the country are generally depastured.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 303 The cows are fed in summer on cut clover, without allowing them to depasture it.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iii. 181 Clayey country, dirty-greenish, as if depastured partly by geese.
figurative and in extended use.1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 37 Nor Hibla, though his thyme depastured, As fast againe with honie blossomed.1864 Sat. Rev. 18 381/1 If Austria is forced to depasture the land with hordes of soldiery.
2. intransitive. To graze.
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the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (intransitive)] > graze
pasturea1393
depasture1586
grass1596
1586 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 131 My cattell shall remayne and depasture, uppon my groundes..as they are at this instante.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 96 a To sheere all the sheep depasturing within the manor.
1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) I. 114 Whilst his flocks depastured upon a neighbouring hill.
1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iii. 263 Over this vast open field..no cattle can depasture.
figurative.1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xiii. lxxix. 250 The bait and food, Whereon his strange disease depastred long.
3. transitive. To put (cattle) to graze; to pasture or feed (cattle). Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > pasture
leasowc950
feed1382
pasturec1400
grassc1500
graze1564
to put out1600
summer1601
impasture1614
depasture1713
run1767
range1816
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture
leasowc950
feed1382
pasturec1400
to put to grass1471
grassc1500
to turn out?1523
graze1564
impasture1614
put1620
depasture1713
run1767
to run out1851
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. v. i. 307 Depasturing their Cattel in the Desarts and uncultivated World.
1809 Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 799/2 The country on which the sheep are depastured..is set out into divisions.
1845 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop. ii. iv. 247 A right of depasturing cattle on the land of another.
1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 240 The human spirit..depasturing itself in the fat levels of the Greek literature.
1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye II. 147 We could pleasantly depasture our eyes on the cultivated ground.
4. Of land: to furnish pasturage to (cattle).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > provide pasture [verb (transitive)] > provide pasture for
pasture1520
depasture1805
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 196 This part of the county..now..depastures flocks in whose frame and fleece are visible some strong symptoms of a more fashionable breed.
1844 Port Phillip Patriot (Melbourne) 22 July 3/6 The run will depasture about 4000 sheep.

Derivatives

deˈpastured adj.
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1794 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest v. 37 The bareworn track, and close-depastured plain.
deˈpasturing n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > grazing
grazingc1440
pascuage1656
benting1670
depasturage1766
depasturing1823
depasturation1841
depasture1856
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [adjective] > grazing
depasturing1823
1823 Surtees Hist. Durham III. 239 (note) Bees were of so much importance that..the depasturing of bees was one article of a solemn concordat between two religious houses.
1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 316 Mowing and depasturing are modes of cropping, comprehended in the term management of meadows.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iii. 183 This is memorable ground..little as the idle tourists think, or the depasturing geese, who happen to be there.
deˈpasturable adj. capable of being depastured.
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1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xi. 282 The depasturable parts of the forest.
depastuˈration n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > grazing
grazingc1440
pascuage1656
benting1670
depasturage1766
depasturing1823
depasturation1841
depasture1856
1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 ii. 216 It [sc. the winter tare] is sometimes resorted to for depasturation in the spring.
depasture n. depasturing.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > grazing
grazingc1440
pascuage1656
benting1670
depasturage1766
depasturing1823
depasturation1841
depasture1856
1856 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 17 i. 282 If you watch cows on depasture, you observe them select their own food.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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