单词 | dilapidation |
释义 | dilapidationn. 1. The action of dilapidating or expending wastefully; wasteful expenditure, squandering. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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