depthless

[Eng. depth; -le .] Having no depth, shallow. "The depthle abstractions of fleeting phenomena."Cole ridge. *dē pū-çe-lāte, v. t. [Fr. dépuceler = to deflower: Lat. de away, from, and Fr. pucelle ; Low Lat. pucella a maid, a virgin.] To deflower, to deprive of virginity. *de-pu-di-cāte, v. t.. [Low Lat. depudicatus , pa. par. of depudico = to deflower: Lat. de = away, from, and pudic us =modest.] To deflower, to deprive of virginity. *de-püd-or-āte, v. t . [Lat. de away; pudor = shame.] To render void of shame, or shamele . "Partly depudorated or become so void of shame."Cudworth: Intell. System, p. 193. *dě-pŭl'se, v. t. [Lat. depulsus , pa. par. of de pello to drive away: de away, and pello = to vation. IMG:content-2203.png:[blocks in formation] "Love is a jewel (some say) inestimable, But, hung at the ear, deprives our own sight." Beaum . & Flet.: Maid in the Mill , iv. 8. 4. To hinder, to debar; to shut out from. "The ghosts rejected, are th' unhappy crew Depriv'd of sepulchers and fun'ral due." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , vi. 445, 446. It is used in this sense by Milton, without the preposition of . "From his face I shall be hid, depriv'd His ble ed countenance." Milton: P. L., xi. 316, 317. *5. To injure, to destroy, to affect. "Melancholy hath deprived their judgments."-Regi nald Scot. *6. To prevent, to avert, to keep off. II. Eng . Eccl . Law : To divest of an ecclesiastical dignity or preferment; to punish by deprivation. "If on the first of February, 1690, he still continued obstinate, he was to be finally deprived ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xi. (1) Crabb thus discriminates between to de prive , to debar , and to abridge : " Deprive conveys the idea of either taking away that which one has, or withholding that which one may have; debar conveys the idea only of withholding; abridge conveys that also of taking away. Depriving is a coercive measure; debar and abridge are merely acts of authority. We are deprived of that which is of the first nece ity; we are debarred of privileges, enjoyments, opportunities, .; we are abridged of comforts, pleasures, conveniences, . Criminals aro deprived of their liberty; their friends are in extraordinary cases debarred the privilege of seeing them; thus men are often abridged of their comforts in consequence of their own faults. De privation and debarring sometimes arise from things as well as persons; abridging is always the I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) Deepne ; the measure of anything from the surface, or highest point, downward. "As for men, they had buildings in many places higher than the depth of the water."- Bacon . (2) The measure of anything from the anterior to the posterior part, or from the front to the rear. [II.2.] (3) A deep place. "A spirit raised from depth of underground." Shakesp.. Henry VI., Pt. II., 1. 2. (4) Specifically : The sea, the ocean (generally used in the plural). "Derkne is weren on the face of dept he."-Wycliffe: Gen. i. 2. 2. Figuratively : *dě-půl's ed, pa. par. or a. [DEPULSE.] *dě půl-ser, *de-poul-sour, s. [English de. puls(e); -er.] One who or that which drives or thrusts away. †dě půl-sion, s. [Lat. depulsio , from depulsus , pa. par. of depello .] A driving or thrusting away. "To puruey for his owne security, and their depulsion ." -Speed: Hen VII ., bk. ix., ch. xx., s. 28.