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birds and reptiles. It resembles the human digastric in 
function, lint not in appearance.- Depressor nerve, an 
atlen-nt branch of the vagus, running to the cardiac plexus, 
which when stimulated lowers the vasomotor tone. De- 
pressor palpebrse inferioris, the depressor of the low- 
er eyelid, a muscle which in many animals, but not m man, 
serves to pull down the lower eyelid. 
They [hinged teeth] are, however, depressible in one <li- /Jenreter (dep're-ter), n. [Origin unknown.] 
" '- I-*,- Jhi't., XII. 654. r,f __1 _..:_ . 1 _. ^ j_ i- :_: 
depressed 
plant (one whose growth is lateral rather than 
upward). 4. In her., surmounted or debruised. 
See debruised. [Bare.] 
depressible (de-pres'i-bl), a. [< depress + -ible.~\ 
Capable of being depressed. 
rectioh only. Encyc. 
depressingly (de-pres'ing-li), adv, 
pressing manner. 
depression (de-presh'on), . [< 
siouii, < OF. depression, F. de 
f . ...on = Pg. depressao = It. depression, < L,. . 
depressio(n-), < depressus, pp. of deprimere, press 
down: see depress.] 1. The act of pressing 
Plastering made to imitate tooled ashler-work. 
In a de- It is first pricked up and floated, as for set or stucco, 
and then small stones are forced on dry from a board. 
? rfpiires E - H - Kni 'J ht - 
s. aepres- j__i_ _*/,; 
depth 
He [Robert South) was ordained l>y one of the deprived 
bishops in 1658. Whipple, Ess. and Rev., II. 75. 
4. To hinder from possessing or enjoying ; de- 
bar; withhold. 
God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17. 
The short time that I spent there deprived me of the 
opportunity. Coryat, Crudities, I. 140. 
From his face I shall be hid, deprived 
His blessed countenance. Milton, P. L., xi. 316. 
Svn 2 To dispossess, strip, rob, despoil. 
JSSlon (de-presh on), n. H MX., aepres- depriment (dep'ri-ment),a. [< L.deprimen(t-)s, deprivementt (de-priv'ment), . [< deprive + 
t, < OF. depression, F. depression = Sp. de- * of de ] )r ^ te ,. e S down: see depress.] -ment.] The act of depriving, or the state of 
presion = Pg. depressao = U. depremone,^ U. | rvinc to depress : specifically applied to cer- being deprived ; deprivation. 
. . u 
down, or the state of being pressed down. Spe- 
cifically 2. In astron. : (a) The sinking of the 
polar star toward the horizon, as the observer 
recedes from the pole toward the equator. (6) 
The angular distance of a star below the horizon , 
which is measured by an arc of the vertical cir- 
cle passing through the star and intercepted 
between the star and the horizon. 
And than is the depressioun of the pole antartik : that is 
to seyn, than is the pol antartik bynethe the orisonte the 
same quantite of space, neither mor ne lasse. 
Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. 25. 
3. In gun., the lowering of the muzzle of a gun, _ r _ 
corresponding to the raising of the breech. , . . ._ j/, ron 
4. In surg., a kind of couchiug.-5. In music, depnval ( d ?-P ja 1) 
the lowering or flatting of a tone : denoted in Deprivation. [Rare.] 
printed music by a \>, or, after a f, by a J. 6. 
A hollow ; a sinking or falling in of a surface ; 
a forcing inward : as, roughness consisting in 
pression of the skull. 
pull downward, as the rec- 
draws down the eye- 
Our Levites, undergoing no such law of deprivement, 
can have no right to any such compensation. 
Milton, Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. 
The widower may lament and condole the unhappiness 
of so many deprivements. 
Sir P. Rucrmt, Pres. State of Greek and Armenian 
[Churches, p. 306. 
n. One who or that which 
deprives, takes away, divests, or bereaves. 
Depriver of those solid joys 
Which sack creates. 
Cleveland. Poems, etc., p. 38. 
[L., out of the 
Should he [one born blind ] draw his hand over a picture, 
where all is smooth and uniform, he would never be able 
to imagine how the several prominences and depressions 
of a human body could be shown on a plain piece of can- 
vas, that has in it no unevenness or irregularity. 
Spectator, No. 416. 
7. Figuratively, the act of lowering or abasing : 
as, the depression of pride. 
Another very important moral result to which asceticism 
largely contributed was the depression and sometimes al- 
most the extinction of the civic virtues. 
Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 148. 
8. A sinking of the spirits ; dejection ; a state 
of sadness; want of courage or animation: as, 
depression of the mind. 
Lambert, in great depression of spirit, twice pray'd him 
to let him escape, but when he saw he could not prevail, 
submitted. Baker, Charles II., an. 1660. 
9. A low state of strength; physical exhaus- 
tion. . 
It tends to reduce the patient's strength very much, and, 
if persistent for any considerable time, almost invariably 
occasions fatal depression. 
West, Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, xxv. 
10. A state of dullness or inactivity: as, de- 
pression of trade ; commercial depression An- 
gle of depression, the angle by which a straight line 
[< F. depriser, un- 
~ize), + -ure.] Low esteem ; 
contempt; disdain. 
5ra$^S$fA 4ostS, o + r -Driver (de-pri'ver) 
deposed. 
Upon surmise . . . they gather that the persons that 
enjoy them [certain grants and tolerations] possess them 
wrongfully, and are deprivable at all hours ! 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 81. fle profundlS (de pro-fun'dis). 
Or else make kings as resistable, censurable, deprivable, depths: de, of; profundis, abl. pi. of proflmdum. 
,nd liable to all kinds of punishments. Prynne. depth: see profound, .] Out of the depths : 
the first two words of the Latin version of the 
130th Psalm, which in the Roman Catholic and 
Anglican churches is one of the seven peni- 
tential psalms: often used (with capitals) as a 
name for this psalm. 
deproperationt (de-prop-e-ra'shon), n. [< L. as 
if *deproperatio(n-), < deproperare, make haste, 
< de- + properare, hasten: see properate.] A 
leprostratet (de-pros'trat), a. [< de- + pros- 
trate.] Extremely prostrate ; very low; mean. 
How may weak mortal ever hope to file 
[< deprive + -al.] 
The deprival of 's sight does render him incapable 
Of future sovereignty. 
Chapman, Revenge for Honour, la, 2. 
(dep-ri-va'shon), n. 
v n-), <. deprivare, deprive : sf 
1. The act of depriving ; a taking away. 
Deprivation of civil rights is a species of penal inflic- 
tion. Sir G. C. Lewis, Authority in Matters of Opinion. 
2. The state of being deprived; loss; want; 
bereavement. 
His unsmooth tongue, and his rieprostrate style? 
0. Fletcher. 
Fools whose end is destruction and eternal deprivation 
f bei "8- Bentley. fleprovincialize (de-pro-vin'shal-lz), v. t. ; pret. 
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 : deprivntion a benejicio, or deprivation of living or 
preferment ; and deprivation ab oficio, or deprivation of 
order, otherwise called deposition or degradation. 
Hence haply it was that Assuerus would needs make 
shew of Vashti the Queene in his magnificent feast, which 
occasioned her depriuation and Esters succession. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 374. 
The deprivation, death, and destruction of the queen's 
majesty. State Trials, Duke of Norfolk, an. 1571. 
and pp. deprovincialize'd, ppr. depropincializing . 
[< de- priv. + provincialize.] To divest of pro- 
vincial characteristics ; expand the views or in- 
terests of. 
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 Wesleyan minister by the authorities of his own 
communion for preaching in an Anglican pulpit. 
H. N. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 397. 
^-v.-^^v^.^^^,,^..-,.^.. ,..__ deprivative (dep'ri-va-tiv), a. [< deprive + 
of the barometer, due to diminished atmospheric pressure, -ative. Cf. privative.] Depriving or tending to 
and pp. deprived, 
depressive (df-pres'iv), a. [== OF? depressif, < 'ML. 'deprivare, '"deprive of office, depose, < L. 
' Able or tend- de- + privare, deprive, pp. privatus, separate, 
private : see private, privation.] If. To take 
F. depressif; as depress + -ive.] 
ing to depress or cast down. 
May Liberty, . . . 
Even where the keen depressive North descends, 
Still spread, exalt, and actuate your powers. Thomson. 
depressiyeness (de-pres'iv-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being depressive ; tendency to depress. 
To all his ... troubles, moreover, must be added this 
continual one of ill-health, and its concomitant depressive- 
ness. Carlyle, Misc., IV. 224. 
depressor (de-pres'or), n. [= Sp. depresor = 
Pg. depressor, [ < NL. 'depressor, < L. depressus, pp. 
of deprimere, press down: see depress.] 1. 
One who presses down ; an oppressor. 
The greatest depressors of God's grace, and the advancers 
of men's abilities, were Pelagius and Celestius. 
Abp. Ifssher, Religion of the Anc. Irish, ii. 
2. PI. depressores (dep-re-so'rez). In anat., 
a muscle that depresses or draws down: as, 
the depressor anguli oris (the muscle which 
draws down the corner of the mouth). 3. In 
surg., an instrument like a curved spatula used 
for reducing or pushing a protruding part into 
place. Depressor alaenasi, a muscle of the face which 
draws down the nostrils. Depressor anguli oris, or 
triangularis menti, a muscle of the face which draws down 
the corner of the mouth. Depressor labii inferioris, 
or qitadratus menti, a muscle of the face which draws down 
the lower lip. Depressor mandibulas, the depressor of 
the mandible, a muscle which depresses the lower jaw and 
thus assists in opening the mouth in many vertebrates, as 
The camp is deprooincializing us very fast. 
0. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 10. 
The country had grown rich, its commerce was large, 
and wealth did its natural work in making life softer and 
more worldly, commerce in deprovincializing the minds 
of those engaged in it. 
Loieell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 237. 
There had been recent instances of the deprivation of dept. A contraction of department. 
bishops by a sentence of the Witan ; and though we have depth (depth), n. [< ME. depthe (not in AS.) 
= D. diepte = Icel. dypt = Dan. dybde = Goth. 
diupitha, depth: with formative -th, < ME. dep, 
E. deep : see deep, a., and cf. deep, n.] 1. Deep- 
ness; distance or extension, as measured (a) 
From the surface or top downward : opposed to 
height: as, the depth of the ocean, of a mine, a 
ditch, etc. 
As for men, they had buildings in many places higher 
than the depth of the water. Bacon. 
Her (the ship's] Depth from the Breadth is 19 Feet and 
four Inches. Han-ell, Letters, I. vi. 33. 
(6) Upward or forward from the point of view: 
as, the depth of the sky. (c) From without 
inward, or from the front to the rear : as, the 
depth of a wound ; the depth of a building. 
2. A deep place, literally or figuratively; an 
abyss; the sea. 
The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. 
away ; end ; injure or destroy. 
'Tis honour to deprive dishonour'd life. 
Shall., Lucrece, 1. 1186. 
Melancholy hath deprived their judgments. 
Reginald Scot. 
2. To digest ; strip ; bereave : as, to deprive 
one of pain, of sight, of property, of children, 
etc. 
In his [William I.'s] Time, Stigand, Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, was for divers Causes deprived of his Dignity, 
and kept private all his Life after in the Castle of Win- 
chester. Baker, Chronicles, p. 28. 
Most happy he 
Whose least delight sumceth to deprive 
Remembrance of all pains which him opprest. 
Spenser. 
As he [the prime minister] comes into power without 
any formal election or nomination, so he can be deprived 
of power without any formal deposition. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 194. 
Hence 3. To divest of office ; degrade. See 
deprivation, 3. 
A minister, deprived for inconformity, said that if they 
deprived him, it should cost an hundred men's lives. 
Bacon. 
He [Heath of Worcester] was called before the council 
February 8, and after a month committed to the Fleet, 
where he remained to the end of the reign ; and before 
the reign came to an end he was deprived. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Bug., xvii. 
Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, 
And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour. 
Shalt., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 
The false tides skim o'er the cover'd land, 
And seamen with dissembled depths betray. 
Dri/den. 
3. The deepest, innermost, or most central part 
of anything; the part most remote from the 
boundary or outer limits: as, the depth of win- 
ter or of night ; in the depths of a jungle or a 
forest. 
The Earl of Newcastle, in the depth of winter, rescued 
the city of York from the rebels. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
4. Abstruseness ; obscurity ; that which is not 
easily explored : as, the depth of a science. 
There are greater depths and obscurities in an elaborate 
and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most ab- 
struse tract of school divinity. Additon, Whig Examiner. 
5. Immensity; infinity; intensity. 
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and know- 
ledge of God ! Rom. xi. 33. 
Tears from the depth of some divine despair. 
Tennyson, PrinoeM, IT. 
