depectiblet (depektibl)

[L. depect-ere, comb off ( It may be also that some bodies are of a more de pectible nature than oil,. for a small quantity of saffron will tinct more than a very great quantity of brasil or wine. Bacon, Nat. Hist. depeculationt (dē-pek-ū-lā'shon), n. [L. de peculatus , pp. of depeculari , embezzle, de- + peculari , embezzle public money: see peculate .] A robbing or embezzling. Also robbery and depeculation of the public treasure or revenues is a greater crime than the robbing or defrauding of a private man. Hobbes, Commonwealth, xxvii. depeinctt, depeintt, v. t. See depaint . depellere , drive away, de , depelt, v. t. [ depellere , away, + pellere , drive. Cf. dispel and depulse .] To drive away; remove; dispel. Because through hunger the faults of the stomacke which haue beene taken eyther by much drinking or sur fetting, or by any other meanes, may be depelled and remoued. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 258. depellert, n . One who or that which removes IMG:content-2393.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2394.jpg:[blocks in formation] If 40 sheep yield 80 lbs. of wool, and are depastured in one parish for a whole year, the parson shall have 8 lbs. Ayliffe , Parergon. Visions of countle flocks to be depastured , and wide estates to be carved out of the bountiful land. Contemporary Rev. , LIII. 7. II. in trans. To feed or pasture; graze. If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment. Black stone , Com. After a given day the temporary fences were removed, and the cattle of all the clansmen were allowed to depas . ture on the stubble. W. E. Hearn, Aryan Household, p. 225.