deprivement (deprivment)

[ Our Levites, undergoing no such law of deprivement, can have no right to any such compensation. Milton , Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. The widower may lament and condole the unhappine of so many deprivements. Sir P. Rycaut, Pres. State of Greek and Armenian [Churches, p. 306. between the star and the horizon. And than is the depre ioun of the pole antartik: that is to seyn, than is the pol antartik bynethe the orisonte the same quantite of space, neither mor ne la e. Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. 25. 3. In gun., the lowering of the muzzle of a gun, corresponding to the raising of the breech.4. In surg., a kind of couching.-5. In music, the lowering or flatting of a tone: denoted in printed music by ab, or, after a, by a 1.-6. A hollow; a sinking or falling in of a surface; a forcing inward: as, roughne consisting in little protuberances and depre ions; the de pre ion of the skull. Should he [one born blind] draw his hand over a picture, where all is smooth and uniform, he would never be able to imagine how the several prominences and depre ions of a human body could be shown on a plain piece of canvas, that has in it no unevenne or irregularity. Spectator, No. 416. 7. Figuratively, the act of lowering or abasing: as, the depre ion of pride. Another very important moral result to which asceticism largely contributed was the depre ion and sometimes al most the extinction of the civic virtues. Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 148. 8. A sinking of the spirits; dejection; a state of sadne ; want of courage or animation: as, depre ion of the mind. Lambert, in great depre ion of spirit, twice pray'd him to let him escape, but when he saw he could not prevail, submitted. Baker , Charles II., an. 1660. 9. A low state of strength; physical exhaustion. It tends to reduce the patient's strength very much, and, if persistent for any considerable time, almost invariably occasions fatal depre ion . West , Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, xxv. 10. A state of dullne or inactivity: as, depre ion of trade; commercial depre ion . - Angle of depre ion, the angle by which a straight line drawn from the eye to any object dips below the horizon. See dip. - Barometric depre ion, a relatively low state of the barometer, due to diminished atmospheric pre ure. Depre ion of an equation, in alg., the reduction of it to a lower degree, by dividing both sides of it by com mon factor. =Syn. 6. Cavity, indentation, dent. 7. Humiliation, fall.-8. Melancholy, despondency. depre ive (dē-pres'iv), a. [= OF. depre if, F. dépre if; as depre + -ive.] Able or tending to depre or cast down. IMG:content-2415.png:[blocks in formation]