destituteadj.n.

/ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/

Forms: Also Middle English destitut, destituyt, destitud, distytute, 1500s destytude, distitute.

Etymology: < Latin dēstitūtus abandoned, forsaken, past participle of dēstituĕre to forsake, abandon, desert, < de- prefix 1a, 1b + statuĕre to set up, place.

A. adj.

†1.

a. Abandoned, forsaken, deserted. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > deserted

manlessOE

willc1330

void1338

desolatec1374

destitute1382

blouta1522

destituted1550

unmanned1609

lifeless1615

deserted1629

vaked1638

vacant1791

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xviii. 17 For in oon hour so many richessis ben destitute [L. destitutæ sunt].

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 233 Long large and wyde clothes destytut and desert from al old honeste and good vsage.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3^v Left their round turrets destitute and pale.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. I Great houses long since built, Lye destitute, and wast because inhabited, by No-body.

b. Of persons: Forsaken, left friendless or helpless, forlorn. (Blending at length with sense A. 3)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone

outcasta1325

desolatec1386

lornc1475

destitute1530

widoweda1586

destituteda1680

marooned1883

waif-like1924

waifish1936

the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > very poor or destitute

(as) poor as JobOE

nakedOE

voidc1374

naisa1400

vacant1430

(as) drunk, (also mad, poor, rank, weak, etc.) as a rat?1548

Hungarian1608

pauper1690

destitute1735

farthingless1834

pebble-beached1890

piss-poor1945

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 310/1 Destytut forsaken, destitue.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 36/2 If deuision and discencion of their frendes, hadde not vnarmed them, and lefte them destitute.

1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) To leaue destitute, destituer, abandonner en detresse.

1704 Cocker's Eng. Dict. Destitute, left forsaken.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Destitute, deprived, bereaved, forsaken, forlorn.

1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Destitute, helpless, forlorn, forsaken, in Want and Misery.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Destitute..2. Abject, friendless.

†a. Deprived or bereft of (something formerly possessed). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > suffering loss > deprived

forlornc1150

bereaved?a1200

destitute14..

private?a1425

devoidedc1430

disgarnished1484

destituted1550

deprived1552

deprivate1575

berapt1581

bereft1586

bereaven1592

dispossessed1599

ungraced1602

privated1656

viduated1660

disfurnished1670

14.. Why I can't be a Nun 97 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 140 I am alle desolate, And of gode cownesayle destitute.

1413 Pylg. Sowle iv. xx. (Caxton, 1483) 67 Thou art of comforte destytuyt I see And so am I. O careful now ben we.

1455 Dk. of York in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 125 Ye stande destitut and unpourveyed of a Marshall within the town of Calyis.

1491–2 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 102 I am distytute of money.

b. Devoid of, wanting or entirely lacking in (something desirable).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without

wane971

quit?c1225

helpless1362

desolatec1386

wantsomea1400

ungirtc1412

voidc1420

wantinga1475

destitutea1500

unfurnished1541

defect1543

bankrupt1567

frustrate1576

wanting1580

wanting1592

sterile1642

minus1807

lacking1838

to be stuck up for1860

short1873

wanting1874

quits1885

light1936

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1178 Shortly to conclud, Our folk of help had ben al destitud.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) James ii. 15 If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of dayly food.

c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne A ij b Not destytude of such commodyties.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Pref. To further the studies of them who..are destitute of sufficient masters.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 46 That..we may prouision haue, wherein we are not destitute for want, but wearie for the stalenesse.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 242 If you were not destitute of an honest heart, you could not do as you have done.

1718 Free-thinker No. 27. 1 The Age we live in is not wholly destitute of Manly refined Spirits.

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 24 A species of fashionable dialect, devoid of sense, and destitute of..wit.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 518 A barren waste destitute of trees and verdure.

†c. Bereft of power to do something. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > incapable of doing something

unablec1380

void1578

uncapable1600

incapablea1616

destitute1645

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 60 If any therefore demand, which is now most perfection..I am not destitute to say which is most perfection.

3. Bereft of resources, resourceless, ‘in want and misery’; now, without the very necessaries of life or means of bare subsistence, in absolute want.The 16th cent. quotations from the Bible have perhaps properly the sense ‘forlorn’ ( A. 1b); but they appear to have led the way to the modern sense, which is not recognized by Johnson, and is only approached in other 18th cent. Dictionaries.

ΚΠ

1539 Bible (Great) Heb. xi. 37 Other..walked vp and downe in shepes skynnes, and goates skynnes, beyng destitute [so 1611, other versions in need], troubled, and vexed.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cii. 17 He turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore destitute [1611 He will regard the prayer of the destitute].]

1735 [see sense A. 1b].

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 455 Did pity of their sufferings..tempt him into sin For their support, so destitute.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 32 The deep curses which the destitute Mutter in secret.

1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds viii. 101 He had left his companions in a destitute state.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 6 I, who was then so poor and destitute.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 92 There is one class which has enormous wealth, the other is entirely destitute.

1895 N.E.D. at Destitute Mod. Help for the destitute poor.

in extended use.1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. §6. 109 These ideas look pitifully naked and destitute.

†4. Civil Law. Of a will: Rendered of no effect by reason of the refusal or incapacity of the heirs therein instituted to take up the inheritance (testamentum destitutum); abandoned. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) 58 If a Testator..had given freedom to slaves, and the Testament afterwards became destitute, the slaves lost their freedom.

B. n.

One who is destitute, without friends, resources, or the means of subsistence.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > lack of friends > person

relict1584

derelict1728

destitute1737

lonely-heart1931

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person

armeOE

goodlessa1350

pauper1516

bankrupt?1563

gnaw-bone1607

gnaw-crust1611

have-nothing1755

bone-grubber1817

bone-picker1825

lack-all1850

destitute1863

stiff1899

down and out1901

down-and-outer1906

1737 P. St. John Fourteen Serm. vii. 224 O my friends, have pity on this poor destitute, for the hand of God hath touched her.

1784 Unfortunate Sensibility II. 12 Considering them as two poor destitutes.

1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 7 Ask the thousands of ragged destitutes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

destitutev.

/ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/

Forms: past tense -ed; in 1500s sometimes destitute.

Etymology: Partly < destitute adj., partly taken as English representation of Latin dēstituĕre (participial stem dēstitūt- ) to put away from oneself, forsake, abandon: see destitute adj. Compare French destituer, < Latin dēstituĕre.

Now rare.

†1. transitive. To forsake, desert, abandon, leave to neglect. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > forsake

forlet971

beleavec1175

letc1175

forleavec1225

forsakea1300

waivec1330

forgoa1400

forhowa1400

sakea1400

forloinc1400

forlesec1460

abandonc1475

destitute1530

aband1587

bandon1587

leese1590

linquish1591

desert1603

derelicta1631

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 514/1 I destytute, I forsake or leave a thyng or persone, je destitue.

1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Bi^v Oppressed on the one side and destituted on the other.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 204 It is the sinfullest Thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a Plantation, once in Forwardnesse.

1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. §1 ⁋16. 62 God, who permits not even the brutes to destitute their young ones.

2. To deprive, bereave, divest of (anything possessed); to render destitute, reduce to destitution.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of)

benimc890

to do of ——eOE

bedealc1000

disturbc1230

bereavec1275

reave?a1300

acquitc1300

benemec1300

deprivec1330

privea1382

subvertc1384

oppressc1395

abridgea1400

to bate of, from1399

lessa1400

nakena1400

dischargea1425

privatec1425

to bring outa1450

abatec1450

sever?1507

spulyie?1507

denude1513

disable1529

distrain1530

destituec1540

destitutec1540

defalk1541

to turn out of ——1545

discomfit1548

wipe1549

nude1551

disannul?a1556

bereft1557

diminish1559

benoom1563

joint1573

uncase1583

rid1585

disarm1590

visitc1592

ease1600

dispatch1604

unfurnisha1616

rig1629

retrench1640

unbecomea1641

disentail1641

cashier1690

twin1722

mulct1748

fordo1764

to do out of ——1796

to cut out1815

bate1823

deprivate1832

devoid1878

c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne A ij b Yf he be destytuted of any of the pryncipalles.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (v.) f. 67 So that the chirches and ciuile ministracion be not destituted lerned men at any tyme.

1561 J. Veron Free-will f. 44^v The mercye of God whereof they be al together destituted.

1605 Short Dial. Ceremonyes 61 That which desti [t] uteth so great a number of whole familes.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 11 Let it take any one part, and destitute it of heate and vitall spirits.

1820 P. B. Shelley Let. 7 Aug. (1964) II. 225 I have given you..the amount of a considerable fortune, & have destituted myself..of nearly four times the amount.

3. spec. To deprive of dignity or office; to depose. [modern French destituer.]

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]

outOE

deposec1300

remuec1325

to put out1344

to set downc1369

deprivec1374

outputa1382

removea1382

to throw outa1382

to put downc1384

privea1387

to set adowna1387

to put out of ——?a1400

amovec1425

disappoint1434

unmakec1475

dismiss1477

dispoint1483

voidc1503

to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546

relieve1549

cass1550

displace1553

unauthorize1554

to wring out1560

seclude1572

eject1576

dispost1577

decass1579

overboard1585

cast1587

sequester1587

to put to grass1589

cashier1592

discompose1599

abdicate1610

unseat1611

dismount1612

disoffice1627

to take off1642

unchair1645

destitute1653

lift1659

resign1674

quietus1688

superannuate1692

derange1796

shelve1812

shelf1819

Stellenbosch1900

defenestrate1917

axe1922

retire1961

1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 70 Where are the Cardinals and Bishops communicating with one excommunicated, instituted by one destituted?

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. 131 Let not the Patriarch think..to destitute or depose me.

1889 B. M. Gardiner in Academy 16 Nov. 314/3 He was destituted by the General Council of the Commune.

4. To leave destitute or waste, to lay waste.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.)

harryc893

fordoc900

awesteeOE

westeeOE

losec950

harrowc1000

destroyc1230

wastec1275

ravishc1325

to lie waste1338

exilea1382

to-wastea1382

unronea1400

desolatea1425

vast1434

fruster?a1513

to lay waste1535

wipe1535

devast1537

depopulate1548

populate1552

forwaste1563

ruinate1564

havoc1575

scourge1576

dispopulate1588

destitute1593

ravage1602

harassa1618

devastate1638

execute1679

to make stroy of1682

to lay in ashes1711

untown1783

hell-rake1830

uncity1850

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 20 By none shall the Sanctuary be defended, but those that wold haue none destitute it or defloure it but themselues.

1890 A. Rimmer Summer Rambles Manch. p. v He would have thought that his country had been overrun by foreign foes and destituted.

†5. To make void, frustrate, defeat, disappoint.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > disappoint, frustrate [verb (transitive)] > frustrate, thwart

discomfitc1230

blenk?a1400

mispoint1480

fruster1490

frustrate?a1513

disappoint1545

destitutea1563

foila1564

deceive1571

thwart1581

balka1593

discomfort1596

unwont1629

fail1634

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid

wanea889

voida1340

avoidc1375

abolishc1475

disnull1509

disannula1513

annihilate1525

evacuate1526

aniente1528

extinct1530

disable1548

extinguish1548

solute1550

destitutea1563

exinanitea1575

cashier1596

devoid1601

shorta1616

supersede1618

vitiate1627

invalidate1649

out1653

vacate1662

exinanitiate1698

atheticize1701

squasha1777

invalid1827

negate1837

negative1837

unsanction1854

cancel-

a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 2607 Examples we haue in Brute, In Catilyne, in Cassius and fayer Absolon, Whome of their purpose God alwayes destytute.

1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 42 If you haue anie new infringement to destitute the inditement of forgerie that I bring against you.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. ii. §1. 8 Lest..he be needlesly offended, when his expectation is destituted.

Derivatives

ˈdestituted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > suffering loss > deprived

forlornc1150

bereaved?a1200

destitute14..

private?a1425

devoidedc1430

disgarnished1484

destituted1550

deprived1552

deprivate1575

berapt1581

bereft1586

bereaven1592

dispossessed1599

ungraced1602

privated1656

viduated1660

disfurnished1670

the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > deserted

manlessOE

willc1330

void1338

desolatec1374

destitute1382

blouta1522

destituted1550

unmanned1609

lifeless1615

deserted1629

vaked1638

vacant1791

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone

outcasta1325

desolatec1386

lornc1475

destitute1530

widoweda1586

destituteda1680

marooned1883

waif-like1924

waifish1936

1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs sig. G.vi^v Thou seest thy brother or thy sister naked, and destituted of daily fode.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1027/2 This monasterie for sundrie yeares was left destituted.

a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. lv. 95 He was a destituted young lad, out of all conversation.

ˈdestituting n.

ΚΠ

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Destitution & delaissement, Destituting or disappointing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	destitute
释义	destituteadj.n. /ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/ Forms: Also Middle English destitut, destituyt, destitud, distytute, 1500s destytude, distitute. Etymology: < Latin dēstitūtus abandoned, forsaken, past participle of dēstituĕre to forsake, abandon, desert, < de- prefix 1a, 1b + statuĕre to set up, place. A. adj. †1. a. Abandoned, forsaken, deserted. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > deserted manlessOE willc1330 void1338 desolatec1374 destitute1382 blouta1522 destituted1550 unmanned1609 lifeless1615 deserted1629 vaked1638 vacant1791 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xviii. 17 For in oon hour so many richessis ben destitute [L. destitutæ sunt]. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 233 Long large and wyde clothes destytut and desert from al old honeste and good vsage. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3^v Left their round turrets destitute and pale. View more context for this quotation 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. I Great houses long since built, Lye destitute, and wast because inhabited, by No-body. b. Of persons: Forsaken, left friendless or helpless, forlorn. (Blending at length with sense A. 3) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone outcasta1325 desolatec1386 lornc1475 destitute1530 widoweda1586 destituteda1680 marooned1883 waif-like1924 waifish1936 the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > very poor or destitute (as) poor as JobOE nakedOE voidc1374 naisa1400 vacant1430 (as) drunk, (also mad, poor, rank, weak, etc.) as a rat?1548 Hungarian1608 pauper1690 destitute1735 farthingless1834 pebble-beached1890 piss-poor1945 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 310/1 Destytut forsaken, destitue. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 36/2 If deuision and discencion of their frendes, hadde not vnarmed them, and lefte them destitute. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) To leaue destitute, destituer, abandonner en detresse. 1704 Cocker's Eng. Dict. Destitute, left forsaken. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Destitute, deprived, bereaved, forsaken, forlorn. 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Destitute, helpless, forlorn, forsaken, in Want and Misery. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Destitute..2. Abject, friendless. 2. †a. Deprived or bereft of (something formerly possessed). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > suffering loss > deprived forlornc1150 bereaved?a1200 destitute14.. private?a1425 devoidedc1430 disgarnished1484 destituted1550 deprived1552 deprivate1575 berapt1581 bereft1586 bereaven1592 dispossessed1599 ungraced1602 privated1656 viduated1660 disfurnished1670 14.. Why I can't be a Nun 97 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 140 I am alle desolate, And of gode cownesayle destitute. 1413 Pylg. Sowle iv. xx. (Caxton, 1483) 67 Thou art of comforte destytuyt I see And so am I. O careful now ben we. 1455 Dk. of York in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 125 Ye stande destitut and unpourveyed of a Marshall within the town of Calyis. 1491–2 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 102 I am distytute of money. b. Devoid of, wanting or entirely lacking in (something desirable). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without wane971 quit?c1225 helpless1362 desolatec1386 wantsomea1400 ungirtc1412 voidc1420 wantinga1475 destitutea1500 unfurnished1541 defect1543 bankrupt1567 frustrate1576 wanting1580 wanting1592 sterile1642 minus1807 lacking1838 to be stuck up for1860 short1873 wanting1874 quits1885 light1936 a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1178 Shortly to conclud, Our folk of help had ben al destitud. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) James ii. 15 If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of dayly food. c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne A ij b Not destytude of such commodyties. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Pref. To further the studies of them who..are destitute of sufficient masters. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 46 That..we may prouision haue, wherein we are not destitute for want, but wearie for the stalenesse. View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 242 If you were not destitute of an honest heart, you could not do as you have done. View more context for this quotation 1718 Free-thinker No. 27. 1 The Age we live in is not wholly destitute of Manly refined Spirits. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 24 A species of fashionable dialect, devoid of sense, and destitute of..wit. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 518 A barren waste destitute of trees and verdure. †c. Bereft of power to do something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > incapable of doing something unablec1380 void1578 uncapable1600 incapablea1616 destitute1645 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 60 If any therefore demand, which is now most perfection..I am not destitute to say which is most perfection. 3. Bereft of resources, resourceless, ‘in want and misery’; now, without the very necessaries of life or means of bare subsistence, in absolute want.The 16th cent. quotations from the Bible have perhaps properly the sense ‘forlorn’ ( A. 1b); but they appear to have led the way to the modern sense, which is not recognized by Johnson, and is only approached in other 18th cent. Dictionaries. ΚΠ 1539 Bible (Great) Heb. xi. 37 Other..walked vp and downe in shepes skynnes, and goates skynnes, beyng destitute [so 1611, other versions in need], troubled, and vexed. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cii. 17 He turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore destitute [1611 He will regard the prayer of the destitute].] 1735 [see sense A. 1b]. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 455 Did pity of their sufferings..tempt him into sin For their support, so destitute. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 32 The deep curses which the destitute Mutter in secret. 1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds viii. 101 He had left his companions in a destitute state. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 6 I, who was then so poor and destitute. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 92 There is one class which has enormous wealth, the other is entirely destitute. 1895 N.E.D. at Destitute Mod. Help for the destitute poor. in extended use.1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. §6. 109 These ideas look pitifully naked and destitute. †4. Civil Law. Of a will: Rendered of no effect by reason of the refusal or incapacity of the heirs therein instituted to take up the inheritance (testamentum destitutum); abandoned. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) 58 If a Testator..had given freedom to slaves, and the Testament afterwards became destitute, the slaves lost their freedom. B. n. One who is destitute, without friends, resources, or the means of subsistence. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > lack of friends > person relict1584 derelict1728 destitute1737 lonely-heart1931 the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person armeOE goodlessa1350 pauper1516 bankrupt?1563 gnaw-bone1607 gnaw-crust1611 have-nothing1755 bone-grubber1817 bone-picker1825 lack-all1850 destitute1863 stiff1899 down and out1901 down-and-outer1906 1737 P. St. John Fourteen Serm. vii. 224 O my friends, have pity on this poor destitute, for the hand of God hath touched her. 1784 Unfortunate Sensibility II. 12 Considering them as two poor destitutes. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 7 Ask the thousands of ragged destitutes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). destitutev. /ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/ Forms: past tense -ed; in 1500s sometimes destitute. Etymology: Partly < destitute adj., partly taken as English representation of Latin dēstituĕre (participial stem dēstitūt- ) to put away from oneself, forsake, abandon: see destitute adj. Compare French destituer, < Latin dēstituĕre. Now rare. †1. transitive. To forsake, desert, abandon, leave to neglect. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > forsake forlet971 beleavec1175 letc1175 forleavec1225 forsakea1300 waivec1330 forgoa1400 forhowa1400 sakea1400 forloinc1400 forlesec1460 abandonc1475 destitute1530 aband1587 bandon1587 leese1590 linquish1591 desert1603 derelicta1631 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 514/1 I destytute, I forsake or leave a thyng or persone, je destitue. 1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Bi^v Oppressed on the one side and destituted on the other. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 204 It is the sinfullest Thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a Plantation, once in Forwardnesse. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. §1 ⁋16. 62 God, who permits not even the brutes to destitute their young ones. 2. To deprive, bereave, divest of (anything possessed); to render destitute, reduce to destitution. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) benimc890 to do of ——eOE bedealc1000 disturbc1230 bereavec1275 reave?a1300 acquitc1300 benemec1300 deprivec1330 privea1382 subvertc1384 oppressc1395 abridgea1400 to bate of, from1399 lessa1400 nakena1400 dischargea1425 privatec1425 to bring outa1450 abatec1450 sever?1507 spulyie?1507 denude1513 disable1529 distrain1530 destituec1540 destitutec1540 defalk1541 to turn out of ——1545 discomfit1548 wipe1549 nude1551 disannul?a1556 bereft1557 diminish1559 benoom1563 joint1573 uncase1583 rid1585 disarm1590 visitc1592 ease1600 dispatch1604 unfurnisha1616 rig1629 retrench1640 unbecomea1641 disentail1641 cashier1690 twin1722 mulct1748 fordo1764 to do out of ——1796 to cut out1815 bate1823 deprivate1832 devoid1878 c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne A ij b Yf he be destytuted of any of the pryncipalles. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (v.) f. 67 So that the chirches and ciuile ministracion be not destituted lerned men at any tyme. 1561 J. Veron Free-will f. 44^v The mercye of God whereof they be al together destituted. 1605 Short Dial. Ceremonyes 61 That which desti [t] uteth so great a number of whole familes. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 11 Let it take any one part, and destitute it of heate and vitall spirits. 1820 P. B. Shelley Let. 7 Aug. (1964) II. 225 I have given you..the amount of a considerable fortune, & have destituted myself..of nearly four times the amount. 3. spec. To deprive of dignity or office; to depose. [modern French destituer.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] outOE deposec1300 remuec1325 to put out1344 to set downc1369 deprivec1374 outputa1382 removea1382 to throw outa1382 to put downc1384 privea1387 to set adowna1387 to put out of ——?a1400 amovec1425 disappoint1434 unmakec1475 dismiss1477 dispoint1483 voidc1503 to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546 relieve1549 cass1550 displace1553 unauthorize1554 to wring out1560 seclude1572 eject1576 dispost1577 decass1579 overboard1585 cast1587 sequester1587 to put to grass1589 cashier1592 discompose1599 abdicate1610 unseat1611 dismount1612 disoffice1627 to take off1642 unchair1645 destitute1653 lift1659 resign1674 quietus1688 superannuate1692 derange1796 shelve1812 shelf1819 Stellenbosch1900 defenestrate1917 axe1922 retire1961 1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 70 Where are the Cardinals and Bishops communicating with one excommunicated, instituted by one destituted? 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. 131 Let not the Patriarch think..to destitute or depose me. 1889 B. M. Gardiner in Academy 16 Nov. 314/3 He was destituted by the General Council of the Commune. 4. To leave destitute or waste, to lay waste. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) harryc893 fordoc900 awesteeOE westeeOE losec950 harrowc1000 destroyc1230 wastec1275 ravishc1325 to lie waste1338 exilea1382 to-wastea1382 unronea1400 desolatea1425 vast1434 fruster?a1513 to lay waste1535 wipe1535 devast1537 depopulate1548 populate1552 forwaste1563 ruinate1564 havoc1575 scourge1576 dispopulate1588 destitute1593 ravage1602 harassa1618 devastate1638 execute1679 to make stroy of1682 to lay in ashes1711 untown1783 hell-rake1830 uncity1850 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 20 By none shall the Sanctuary be defended, but those that wold haue none destitute it or defloure it but themselues. 1890 A. Rimmer Summer Rambles Manch. p. v He would have thought that his country had been overrun by foreign foes and destituted. †5. To make void, frustrate, defeat, disappoint. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > disappoint, frustrate [verb (transitive)] > frustrate, thwart discomfitc1230 blenk?a1400 mispoint1480 fruster1490 frustrate?a1513 disappoint1545 destitutea1563 foila1564 deceive1571 thwart1581 balka1593 discomfort1596 unwont1629 fail1634 the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid wanea889 voida1340 avoidc1375 abolishc1475 disnull1509 disannula1513 annihilate1525 evacuate1526 aniente1528 extinct1530 disable1548 extinguish1548 solute1550 destitutea1563 exinanitea1575 cashier1596 devoid1601 shorta1616 supersede1618 vitiate1627 invalidate1649 out1653 vacate1662 exinanitiate1698 atheticize1701 squasha1777 invalid1827 negate1837 negative1837 unsanction1854 cancel- a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 2607 Examples we haue in Brute, In Catilyne, in Cassius and fayer Absolon, Whome of their purpose God alwayes destytute. 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 42 If you haue anie new infringement to destitute the inditement of forgerie that I bring against you. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. ii. §1. 8 Lest..he be needlesly offended, when his expectation is destituted. Derivatives ˈdestituted adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > suffering loss > deprived forlornc1150 bereaved?a1200 destitute14.. private?a1425 devoidedc1430 disgarnished1484 destituted1550 deprived1552 deprivate1575 berapt1581 bereft1586 bereaven1592 dispossessed1599 ungraced1602 privated1656 viduated1660 disfurnished1670 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > deserted manlessOE willc1330 void1338 desolatec1374 destitute1382 blouta1522 destituted1550 unmanned1609 lifeless1615 deserted1629 vaked1638 vacant1791 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone outcasta1325 desolatec1386 lornc1475 destitute1530 widoweda1586 destituteda1680 marooned1883 waif-like1924 waifish1936 1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs sig. G.vi^v Thou seest thy brother or thy sister naked, and destituted of daily fode. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1027/2 This monasterie for sundrie yeares was left destituted. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. lv. 95 He was a destituted young lad, out of all conversation. ˈdestituting n. ΚΠ 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Destitution & delaissement, Destituting or disappointing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1382v.1530
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