deproperationt (deproperashon)

[L. as if * deproperatio ( n- ), How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style? G. Fletcher. 3. Degradation from office, rank, or position; deposition: now used chiefly of the deposition of a bishop or other clergyman. This is of two kinds: deprivation a beneficio, or deprivation of living or preferment; and deprivation ab officio, or deprivation of order, otherwise called deposition or degradation. Hence haply it was that A uerus would needs make shew of Vashti the Queene in his magnificent feast, which occasioned her deprivation and Esters succe ion. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 374. The deprivation , death, and destruction of the queen's majesty. State Trials , Duke of Norfolk, an. 1571. There had been recent instances of the deprivation of bishops by a sentence of the Witan; and though we have no record of such a step, we may gather that Robert was himself deprived of his see. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 519. They [the civil courts] would enforce the deprivation of a Wesley an minister by the authorities of his own communion for preaching in an Anglican pulpit. H. N. Oxenham , Short Studies, p. 397.