deprivative (deprivativ)

[ ML. deprivare , deprive of office, depose, L. de- + privare , deprive, pp. privatus , separate, private: see private , privation .] 1. To take away; end; injure or destroy. 'Tis honour to deprive dishonour'd life. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1186. Melancholy hath deprived their judgments. Reginald Scot . 2. To divest; strip; bereave: as, to deprive one of pain, of sight, of property, of children, etc. IMG:content-2417.png:[blocks in formation] As he [the prime minister) comes into power without any formal election or nomination, so he can be deprived of power without any formal deposition. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 194. Hence-3. To divest of office; degrade. See deprivation, 3. A minister, deprived for inconformity, said that if they deprived him, it should cost an hundred men's lives. Bacon . He [Heath of Worcester) was called before the council February 8, and after a month committed to the Fleet, where he remained to the end of the reign; and before the reign came to an end he was deprived. R. W. Dizon , Hist, Church of Eng., xvii. terests of. The camp is deprovincializing us very fast. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 10. The country had grown rich, its commerce was large, and wealth did its natural work in making life softer and more worldly, commerce in deprovincializing the minds of those engaged in it. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 237. dept. A contraction of department. depth (depth), n. [ As for men, they had buildings in many places higher than the depth of the water. Bacon . Her (the ship's] Depth from the Breadth is 19 Feet and four Inches. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 33. (b) Upward or forward from the point of view: as, the depth of the sky. (c) From without inward, or from the front to the rear: as, the depth of a wound; the depth of a building.2. A deep place, literally or figuratively; an aby ; the sea. IMG:content-2418.png:[blocks in formation] 3. The deepest, innermost, or most central part of anything; the part most remote from the boundary or outer limits: as, the depth of winter or of night; in the depths of a jungle or a forest. The Earl of Newcastle, in the depth of winter, rescued the city of York from the rebels. Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 4. Abstrusene ; obscurity; that which is not easily explored: as, the depth of a science. There are greater depths and obscurities in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse tract of school divinity. Add is on , Whig Examiner. 5. Immensity; infinity; intensity. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! Rom. xi. 33. Tears from the depth of some divine despair. Tennyson, Prince , iv. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary depth 6. Profoundne ; profundity; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating: as, depth of understanding; depth of skill. He was a man that God endued with a clear and wonderful depth : a discerner of others' spirits, and very much a master of his own. Penn, Rise and Progre of Quakers, v. The splendid colouring of the Flemish artists covers but does not conceal the entire want of depth , of imagination, of spiritual vision. F. T. Palgrave, Nineteenth Century, XXIII. 84. 7. In painting , darkne and richne of tone: as, great depth of color.-8. In logic , the quantity of comprehension; the totality of those attributes which an idea involves in itself, and which cannot be taken away from it without destroying it. This use of the word was borrowed by Hamilton from certain late Greek writers. By the informed depth of a term, I mean all the real characters (in contradiction to mere names) which can be predicated of it (with logical truth on the whole) in a supposed state of information; no character being count ed twice over knowingly in the supposed state of in for mation. the breadth, may be certain or doubtful, actual or potential. By the e ential depth of a term, I mean the really conceivable qualities predicated of it in its definition. Substantial depth is the real concrete form which belongs to everything of which a term is predicable with absolute truth. Beyond one's depth, in water too deep for safety; hence, one's ability or means. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth. Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. Be sure yourself and your own reach to know; How far your genius, taste, and learning go; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet. Pope, E ay on Criticism, 1. 50. Depth of a sail, the size of a sail between the head and the foot-rope. It is also called the drop or hoist.- Depth of the hold, in ship - building, the depth from the upper side of the lower deck-beams to the upper side of the floor timbers. Focal depth, the penetrating power of a lens -that is, the vertical range through which the parts of an object, a scene, etc., viewed by the lens are seen with satisfactory distinctne .