† depev.
Obsolete.
1. To immerse as a religious rite, to baptize.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > by immersion > perform immersion [verb (transitive)]
depec960
dipc975
plungec1380
c960 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. iii. 11 Ic eowic depu vel dyppe wættre.
c960 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. iii. 13 Þætte he wære depid.
c960 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. iii. 14 Ic sceal fram þe beon vel wesa deped vel fullwihted.
c1315 Shoreham 11 Olepi me mot hym depe ine the water.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 107 Vor depe and cristni is al on.
2. To immerse, submerge, plunge deeply, dip. See also deep v. 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid
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bedipc1000
dipc1000
dibc1325
indip1596
demergec1610
immerse1613
ensteepa1616
immerge1617
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demerse1662
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 23 Se ðe depeð mec mið hond in disc.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 83 Efterward he depþ ine blod.
1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 69 Othere bisshopis that ben not so depid in errour.
1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 34 Protestants are now a days so deped in darcknes.
a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1657) 34 The measure and time..which they were to observe in the deeping of their oares.]
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