depiction

[Lat. depict us.] The act of depicting; a painting; a representation. dě-pic-ture (as dě-pict-çher), v. t. [Pref. de = down, and Eng. picture (q. v.).] To depict, to represent, to paint. "'Twas paint, 'twas life! and sure to piercing eyes The warrior's face depictured Henry's mien." Shenstone: Love and Honor, 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of deploring or lamenting. "The deploration of her fortune."-Speed: Henry VII ., IMG:content-2177.png:[blocks in formation] Will I my master's tears to you deplore ." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , lii. 1. *3. To despair of, to give over. "Physicians do make a kind of scruple and religion to stay with the patient after the disease is deplored." - Bacon: Adv. of Learning, bk. ii. Crabb thus discriminates between to deplore and to lament: "Deplore is a much stronger ex- pre ion than lament ; the former calls forth tears from the bitterne of the heart; the latter excites a cry from the warmth of feeling. Deplorable in- dicates despair; to lament marks only pain or dis- tre . Among the poor we have deplorable instances of poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedne com- bined; among the higher cla es we have often lamentable instances of extravagance and conse- quent ruin." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) dě-plö'red, pa . par . or a. [DEPLORE.] dě-plör-ěd-ly, adv . [Eng. deplored ; -ly.] Deplorably. "To be deploredly old, and affectedly young, is not only a great folly, but a gro deformity." -Bishop Taylor: Artificial Handsomene , p. 72. *de-plöre-ment, s. [Eng. deplore ; -ment.] The act of deploring. dě-plörer, s. [Eng. deplor (e); -er.] One who deplores or laments; a mourner, a lamenter. dě-plör-ing, pr . par ., a. & 8. [DEPLORE.] away, from, and plum a a feather.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A plucking or stripping off the feathers; a lo of feathers. IMG:content-2178.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2179.png:[blocks in formation] *I. Ord. Lang .: Laying down. II. Technically : IMG:content-2180.png:[blocks in formation] deponer person in the proper sense, but may be applied figuratively to inanimate objects; he declares by word of mouth what he personally knows. Every witne is an evidence at the moment of trial, but every evidence is not a witne ." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) dě-pon-er, *de-pon-ar, s. [Eng. depon (e); -er.] One who makes oath in a court; a deponent. IMG:content-2181.png:[blocks in formation] tors, depravators."-Adams: Works, ii. 481. dě-pört-ěd, pa . par. or a. [DEPORT, v.] "He told us he had been deported to Spain."- Walsh . dě-pört'-ing, pr . par ., a. & 8. [DEPORT, v .] A. & B. As pr. par . & particip . adj.: (See the "Mars answered, O Jove, neither she nor I, With both our aids, can keep depopulacy From off the frogs." Chapman: Homer's Batrachomyomachia. *de-pop-u-lar-ize, v . t . [Pref. de =away, from, and Eng. popularize (q. v.).] To render unpopular. de-pop-u-lāte, v . t . & i. [Lat. depopulatus , pa. par . of depopulor = to depopulate.] (PEOPLE.] A. Transitive : C. As subst.: The act of banishing or carrying away to a foreign land; transportation, banish ment. dě-pört'-ment, 8. [O. Fr. deportment, deport men; Fr. déportement.] 1. Conduct, management. "Touching the duke's own deportment in that island." -Wotton : Remains. 2. Demeanor, carriage, behavior, manners. "But William's deportment soon rea ured his friends." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvi. IMG:content-2182.png:[blocks in formation] LATE.] de-pop-u-lāt-ěd, pa . par . or a . [DEPOPULATE.] de-pop-u-lat-ing, pr . par ., a. & 8. [DEPOPUA. & B. As pr.par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act or proce of depriving of inhabitants; depopulation.