DEP 
DerarrmMent, in wht edediged figoifies diftribution, 
divifion, or allotment of certai ents amon = 
“veral_perfo Thus the great “alien of ftate, &c. 
bee their feveral departments: and the bufinefs of the on 
taries of ftate in particular, is generally divided into two 
partitions; the one officiating for the fouthern, the other 
for the northern ‘apa mee ; though ia another is 
added on particular occafi : 
DEPARTURE, or Dee n Law ro= 
perly a eae to a perfon, si ‘ir lie Site thing i in bar 
of an aio that being replied S waves it, and infifts 
on fomething diene from his firft plea 
y be applied toa lai who, in his repli- 
cation, fhews a new matter different from that in his declara- 
tion. Sieve 7, 8. 2 Int. 147.) Soif 
ba 
fhall be eaaened a departure in pleadin efe 
ant hereupon demurreth, becaule it was a serene from the 
ag ta 
award; for fuch rejoinder would be an entire departure 
from his sie plea, ens oa pee that no fuch award 
was made; therefore o other choice but to 
traverle oe fa of the replication, or alfo to demur upon 
the = of it. 
ain ie 
_him, a ap 
pear at the day, but make This is a departure in in 
defpite of the os court 3 and therefore he fhall be condemned. 
EFAU 
nate 
3 andi its 
fared or  welting of 
a fhip, with refpe& to the meridian from which it departed 
or failed. eee it is the difference of longitude, either eaft 
er welt, between the prefent meridian the fhip is under, 
and that where the laft reckoning or obfervation was made. 
This ioe e; a where 
be ac 
Ay, in Antiquity, a wine veffel oieeh ie oe 
bines, on any feftival day, fet on the table of their gods. 
DEPHLEGMATION, in Chemifiry. This term is 
applied to the abftraGtion of = phlegm, or mercly water 
part of any eens and may be performed in feveral 
ways. Thus, {pirit of wine is dephlegmated k by difillation, 
agd the phlegm remains in the alembic. Sulphuric acid, on 
the other hand, i ephl 
egmated by boiling, and the ple egm 
dis diffipated in vapour. 
PHLOGISTICATED Air. See Oxye 
DeEPHLOGISTICATED Nitrous dir. See Nieees Ouse: 
Depurogisticatren Nitrous Acid. See Nitrous cid. 
DEPILATORY, in Medicine, a plaifter, or medicine, 
applied on any hairy place, in order to bring off the hair. The 
word is formed of the particle de, and pilus, hair. 
epilatories are pri mtg pean of lime and orpi- 
ment, which is uftic anyerous minera 
very cauttic 
DEPI ZNANO, in re le a oon of Naples, in the 
DEP 
pocne of Calabria Citra; three miles 8.5. W.of Co- 
a. 
“DEPLOY, in Military asl means the cama = 
a body of troops, previcufly compa&ied in colum 
fo as to offer a larger front ; generally for the purpofe. of 
performing fome evolution, or of arranging a line, or of di- 
reGting an attack, in fome direCtion leaft expected by the 
enemy. is deception is molt!y carried into eff-@ by al- 
lowing the front to k its pofiti or to continue 
vancing, while the rear divilions open "abruptly, (or, if the 
firuation demands, gradually,) fo that the enemy remain in 
a flate of incertitude as to the extent and direGtion of the 
Shien. ot it has aa ae completed, and its igten- 
tion has bee de rtly effe 
ere an army moves in feveral columns, it is often 
expedient to caufe their feveral fub-divifions to deploy, fo 
ring the whole into line, either to the front, 
In performing this evolution, fixed points muft be 
afcertained to dire&t the march of the feveral fub-divifions s 
fo that they may all proceed direGtly to hued Bi aie fae 
tions, een ae any circuitous mo 
Jy 
he t “¢ deploy’? is derived fem Ge Tes word 
apg, hich firnifes unfold, to open, to scene or 
o difclofe. ‘The military penne will ie that the 
i. extremely appropriate to the change which takes ae 
from t column to the formation in line 
NENT, Deponens, in the TA tin Grammar, a 
term spplied to verbs which have aétive fignifications, tie 
paffive wee sas or conjugations, and want one of their 
participles pa 
ch is minor, ‘7 pisier which has for participles mix 
minaturus, and m s, but no minandus, which fhould 
be ine participle p sie, 
They are oi deponents, as having. depofited, or laid afide 
their Uo fignification. 
ENT, in a legal oe a perfon who makesa depa- 
i ‘ion « or Be ig which fee 
DE ULATION, act of wafting, deftroying, 
defolating,, or poe | a ns Coke,, Inftit. part. i. 
fol. 20 
fe 
DEPOPULATORES Acrorum, in our Statutes, {uch 
as depopulate or difpeople lands. 
It appears by the ttatute 4 Hen. [V. c. 2. that thefe were 
great offenders by the ancient law, lew that the appeal or 
indictment ame them ought not to be in a general, but 
in a {pecial manner, 
ecau 
DEPORT. ATION, from deporta, F carry. away, a fort 
of banifhment in vfe amon Romans, whereby fome: 
ifland, or other place, was allotted to a criminal for the- 
place of his abode, with a prohibition from ftirring out of 
the fame upon pain of deat 
Ipian rare this difference between er capees and relg- 
gation; that rmer confined the party 
ace for ever; ee ee relegation was frequently revoked, 
and allowed the exile a little more liber 
By deportation a perfon loft the hes of a Roman: 
citizen. 
DEPOSIT, Derosirum,.a thing put into the hands of 
another, to be kept gratis 
The — divide dep off tum into lf and judiciary... 
EPOSIT, Fudiciary, 1s that whofe property is contefted! 
between meyers perfons, and depofited 1 : the hands of fame: 
third perfon, by decree of a judge.. 
Derosiry 
