dilapidation (dior dilapidashon)

[Formerly also del api dat i on; = F. dilapidation Sp. dilapidacion = Pg. dilapidação = It. dilapi dazione, Whom shall their [the bishops'] succe ors sue for the dilapidations which they make of that credit? Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. 24. By keeping a strict account of incomes and expenditures, a man might easily preserve an estate from dilapidation. J. Goodman, Winter Evening Conferences, i. Specifically-2. In Eng. eccles. law, the pulling down, suffering to go to decay, or ruin of any building or other property in po e ion of an incumbent.