depredate

t. & i. [Latin deprædat us, pa. par. of deprædor to plunder, to pillage: de (intens.), and prædor to plunder; præda = booty, plunder; Fr. dépréder; Sp. depredar; Ital. depre dare.] A. Transitive : 11. To rob, to plunder, to pillage. 2. To waste, to spoil. "It maketh the substance of the body more solid and "Looking up to him deprecatively , he said, P. R. Drummond: Perth shire in Bygone Days (1879), ch. compact, and so le apt to be consumed and depredated xiv., p. 80. prayer. 2. One who earnestly argues or pleads against; one who strongly condemns or disapproves. děp-rě-cā-tör-ỹ, a . & s. [Lat. deprecator i us .] A. As adj .: Serving to or tending to deprecation; having the form of a deprecation; deprecative. "Bishop Fox sent many humble and deprecatory letters to the Scottish king to appease him."- Bacon . "Full of deprecatories and apologetics."-North: Ex- amen , p. 343. ( Davies .) depretiatus , pa. par. of depretio to depreciate: de dě-pre-çl-āte (or çi as shi), v. t. & i. [Lat away, from, and pretium =price; Fr. déprécier , dépriser .] A. Transitive : 1. To lower the value or price of; to bring down in price. ".. depreciated paper, which he had fraudulently substituted for silver."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxxiii. 2. To represent as of le value or merit; to dis- parage, to undervalue, to decry, to underrate. "They both took every method to depreciate the merit of each other." -Goldsmith : On Polite Learning, ch. vii. of le worth.. [DEPRECIATE.] dě-pre-çi-at-ing (or çi as shi), pr. par., a. & s. [DEPRECIATE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of lowering in value, price, or estimation; depreciation. I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of depreciating, lowering, or le ening in value or price. "In consequence of an artificial depreciation of the currency."-Rogers: Political Economy , p. 300. 2. The act or state of becoming depreciated or lowered in value or price. 3. The act of depreciating, disparaging, underrating, or decrying. II. Comm., Finance, .: The diminution or falling off in value of coins, bullion, or of a paper currency. " Depreciation is often confounded with debase . ment , especially when used with reference to the coinage. But debasement is the willful act of a dis honest government, or of dishonest persons: while depreciation, whether of coin, bullion, or commodi. the price, value, of a thing is the ratio in by the spirits."- Bacon. *3. To eat up, to consume. *B. In trans.: To rob, plunder, pillage. †děp-re-dat-ěd, pa . par . or a. [DEPREDATE.] děp'-re-dat-ing, pr . par ., a . & s. [DEPREDATE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of plundering or pillaging: depredation.