deplumev.
/dɪˈpl(j)uːm/ 1.
a. transitive. To strip of feathers; to pluck the feathers off.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of feathers or plumes
deplumec1420
unfeather1483
plume1525
unplume1566
unfledge1598
implume1604
displume1623
pelt1692
ploat1855
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 698 Twies a yere deplumed may thai be.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 310 Ye must cast your hawke handsomly, and deplume hir head behinde..and anoynt it with butter and swynes bloud.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 240 Thus was the Romane Eagle deplumed, every Bird had its own feathers.
1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xv. 188 Such a person is like Homers bird, deplumes himselfe to feather all the naked callows that he sees.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 237 From the circumstance of its depluming its breast.
1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 293 [The pigeons] are..deplumed and drawn..before they are sent to market.
b. To strip off (feathers). rare.
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1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered viii. 28 There are that will..deplume your borrowed feathers.
c. transferred. To pluck or cut off hair from. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > cut > a person
dod?c1225
polla1325
topc1330
roundc1450
barb1587
unbeard1598
deplume1775
crop1858
Dartmoor-clip1932
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 6 Holding this Indian razor between their fore-finger and thumb, they deplume themselves, after the manner of the Jewish novitiate priests.
2. figurative. To strip or deprive of honour, ornament, wealth, or the like.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)]
vile1297
supplanta1382
to bring lowa1387
revilea1393
gradea1400
villain1412
abject?a1439
to-gradea1440
vilifyc1450
villainy1483
disparage1496
degradea1500
deject?1521
disgraduate1528
disgress1528
regrade1534
base1538
diminute1575
lessen1579
to turn down1581
to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593
disesteem1594
degender1596
unnoble1598
disrank1599
reduce1599
couch1602
disthrone1603
displume1606
unplume1621
disnoble1622
disworth?1623
villainize1623
unglory1626
ungraduate1633
disennoble1645
vilicate1646
degraduate1649
bemean1651
deplume1651
lower1653
cheapen1654
dethrone1659
diminish1667
scoundrel1701
sink1706
demean1715
abjectate1731
unglorifya1740
unmagnify1747
undignify1768
to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819
dishero1838
misdemean1843
downgrade1892
demote1919
objectify1973
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Hijv Thence lighted I in Thessalie Of fethers then deplumde.]
1651 H. Isaakson in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus sig. **4v [The Bishopricke] of Ely (before it was so much deplumed).
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 168 This Scotish Demster is an arrant rook, depluming England, Ireland and Wales, of famous Writers, meerly to feather his own Country therewith.
1779 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 588 His favourite amusement of depluming me.
1883 L. Wingfield Abigel Rowe I. xi. 258 [They] kept gaming-tables..where the unwary were speedily deplumed.
Derivatives
deˈplumed adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of hair or feathers > stripped of feathers or plumes
plumed1573
deplumeda1627
displumed1660
deplumated1727
a1627 H. Shirley Martyr'd Souldier (1638) iii. iv. sig. F3 The live taile of a deplum [e] d Henne.
deˈpluming n.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping or being stripped of feathers
plucking1440
unpluming1592
deplumation1611
pluming1614
depluming1655
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > [noun] > plucking feathers
plucking1440
unpluming1592
depluming1797
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 199 Thus on the depluming of the Pope every bird had his own feather.
1797 ‘English Lady’ Resid. in France I. 170 A fowl..dressed without any other preparation than that of depluming.
1890 H. A. Hazen in Science 23 May 313/2 The most singular fact is that the fowl lives under the depluming process [in a tornado].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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