dilapidationn.
/dɪˌlapɪˈdeɪʃən/ 1. The action of dilapidating or expending wastefully; wasteful expenditure, squandering.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun]
overflowingnessOE
wastinga1300
prodigality1340
misdispendingc1390
misspendingc1390
fool-largessec1405
wantonness1448
fool-largec1450
dilapidationc1460
lavish1483
consuminga1538
profusion1545
sumptuosity1550
wastefulness1551
lashing1556
lavishing1574
profuseness1584
lavishness1590
misspense1591
wastening1604
outlashing1611
duck and drake1614
largesse1614
lavishment1630
squandering1632
prodigence1634
dissipation1639
wastry1645
profusiveness1655
high living1656
nepotation1656
extravagancy1666
extravagance1727
profligacy1792
squander1806
profligateness1817
wastrife1818
spendthriftism1862
wasterfulness1884
high-rolling1890
prodigalism1896
spendthriftiness1950
squanderbugging1966
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) x Sellynge off a kynges livelod, is propirly callid delapidacion off his crowne.
1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Dilapidation, wastefull, spending, or suffering to goe to decay.
1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) Pref. 24 Against the Dilapidations of the Revenues of the Church.
1817 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 5) III. iv. vii. 170 The dilapidation of the national resources.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 369 The dilapidation which had taken place in the royal demesnes.
2. The action of bringing (a building, etc.) into ruin, decay, or disrepair.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > dilapidated or ruinous condition > bringing into
dilapidation1820
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 272 Subject to the dilapidations of time and the caprice of fashion.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 29. §1 (3) The crofter shall not..persistently injure the holding by the dilapidation of buildings.
3. attributive.1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 145 His Lordship..will lay out the dilapidation sum..in building a house for the see.
a. Law. The action of pulling down, allowing to fall into a state of disrepair, or in any way impairing ecclesiastical property belonging to an incumbency.
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [noun] > impairing property belonging to incumbency
dilapidationc1425
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xx. 116 Ane auld abbote swa put downe For opyn dilapidatioune.
?1530 tr. J. Colet Serm. Conuocacion Paulis i. sig. Avij Suynge for tithes, for offrynge, for mortuaries, for delapidations, by the right and title of the churche.
1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. Mv A Churchman shee dare not venture vpon; for shee hath heard Widowes complaine of dilapidations.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 91 Dilapidations..are a kind of ecclesiastical waste, either voluntary, by pulling down; or permissive, by suffering the chancel, parsonage-house, and other buildings..to decay.
1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 237 Experience in the valuation of dilapidations.
b. loosely. The sums charged against an incumbent or his representatives to make good such damage incurred during his incumbency.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > other charges or payments
wood-hire1361
poll penny1489
dilapidation1553
soilage1593
admittyc1600
mortcloth1636
table money1659
treaty-money1763
carrying charge1834
handling charge1858
loosing1889
1553 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 263 I thinke my successors cannot..requyer any dylapidacions ffor Sefton.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 317 Considerable sums as dilapidations for the repair of the body of the church.
4. The action of falling into decay; the condition of being in ruins or in disrepair. (literal and figurative.)
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > dilapidated or ruinous condition
ruina1393
ruinosity1453
ruinousness1574
dilapidation1638
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 219 The Calyph pittied her delapidations, and..begun to reare her up againe, and builded [etc.].
1684 J. Goodman Winter-evening Conf. i. 32 By keeping a strict account of Incomes and Expences, a man might easily preserve an Estate from dilapidation.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 507 The works..are in such a state of delapidation.
1860 A. J. Harvey Our Cruise Claymore xi. 303 In striking contrast to the wretched delapidation of the Holy Sepulchre.
1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 14 An edifice now lying in littered dilapidation.
5.
a. The falling of stones or masses of rock from mountains or cliffs by natural agency.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > rock fragments or debris > falling of
dilapidation1794
bergfall1856
stone-fall1868
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 165 In the course of time they shall be exposed from the dilapidations of the mountain.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 61 The dilapidation taking place on the east, has caused an opening..into the heart of the mountain.
1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) I. ii. xv. 356 The rocks have been suffering from dilapidation.
b. concrete. A mass or collection of stone which has fallen from a mountain or height; debris.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > rock fragments or debris
debris1802
fault-stuff1811
dilapidation1816
rock waste1849
fault-rock1877
slide-rock1901
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 68 Masses of dilapidation of various sizes.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 48 The whole tract is covered with reduced dilapidation, either hornstone, trapp, or basalt.
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