| 释义 |
depeditate depeditate/dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with "decapitate"]Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using somecomputer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of textblocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-offletter descenders. Such letters are said to have beendepeditated. |