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fuch are the ideas fignified by the words triangle, gra¬ 
titude, murder. Lccke. 
DEPEND'ANT, adj. Hanging down. Relating to 
fomething previous. In the power of another.—On God, 
as the mod: high, all inferior caufes in the world are de¬ 
fendant. Hooker. 
DEPEN D' ANT, f. One who lives in fubjedljon, or 
at the difcretion of another ; a retainer.—A great abate¬ 
ment of kindnefs appears as well in the general defend¬ 
ants, as in the duke biinfelf alio, and your daughter. 
Shahefpeare .■—For a fix-clerk a perfon recommended a de¬ 
pend antupyon him, who paid fix thoufand pounds ready 
money. Clarendon. —His dependants Hi all quickly become 
his profelytes. South. 
DEPEND'ENCE, or Dependency, f [from dependo, 
Lat. This word, with many others of the fame termina¬ 
tion, are indifferently written with ance crence, ancyox ency, 
as the authors intended to derive them from the Latin or 
French.] A thing or perfon at the difpofal or difcretion 
of another.—We invade the rights of our neighbours, 
not upon account of covetoufnefs, but of dominion, that 
we may create dependencies. Collier. —State of being fubor- 
dinate, or fubjedt in fome degree to the difcretion of ano¬ 
ther ; the contrary to fovereignty : 
Let me report to him 
Your fweet dependency, and you (hall find 
A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindnefs, 
Where he for grace is kneel’dto. Shakefpeare. 
That which is not principal; that which is fubordinate. 
—We fpeak of the fublunary worlds, this earth, and its 
dependencies, which rofe out of a chaos about fix thoufand 
years ago. Burnet's Theory. —Concatenation; connexion; 
rife of confequents from premifes : 
Her madnefs hath the oddeft frame of fenfe ; 
§uch a dependency of thing on thing, 
As ne’er I heard in madnefs. Shakefpeare. 
Relation of any thing to another, as of an effedl to its 
caufe.—I took pleafure to trace out the caufe of effects, 
and the dependence of one thing upon another in the vifi- 
ble creation. Burnet. —Truft ; reliance; confidence.— 
The expedfation of the performance of our defire, is that 
we call dependence upon him for help and afllftance. Stil¬ 
ling feet. 
DEPEND'ENT, adj. [dependens, Lat.] This, as many 
other words of like termination, are written with ent or 
ant, as they are luppofed to flow from the Latin or 
French.] Hanging down.—In the time of Charles the 
Great, and long fince, the whole furs in the tails were 
dependent ; but now that fafhion is left, and the fpots only 
worn, without the tails. Peacham. 
DEPEND'ENT,yi [from dependens, Lat.] One fubor¬ 
dinate ; one at the difcretion or difpofal-of another.—We 
are indigent, defencelefs, beings; the creatures of his 
power, and the dependents of his providence. Rogers. 
DEPEND'ER,/! A dependent; one that repofes on 
the kindnefs or power of another : 
What flialt thou expedfc, 
To be depender on a thing that leans ? Shakefpeare. 
DEPERDI'TION, f. [from deperditus, Lat.] I.ofs ; 
deftrudtion.—It may be unjuft to place all efficacy of 
gold in the non-omiflion of weights, or deperdition of any 
ponderous particles. Brown. 
DEPHLEGMA'TION,/. An operation which takes 
away from the phlegm any fpirituous fluid by repeated 
diftillation, till it is at length left all behind. Quincy.— 
In divers cafes it is not enough to feparate the aqueous 
parts by dephlegmation ; for fome liquors contain alfo an 
unfufpedted quantity of fmall corpufcles, of fomewhat 
an earthy nature, which, being affociated with the faline 
ones, do clog and blunt them, and thereby weaken their 
activity. Boyle. 
To DEPHLE'GM, or To Defh leg mate, v. \_de- 
phlegmo, low Lat.] To clear from phlegm, or aqueous 
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infipid matter.—We have fometimes taken fpirit of fait, 
and carefully dephlegmed it. Boyle. 
DEPHLEG'MEDNESS,yi The quality of being freed 
from phlegm or aqueous matter.—The proportion be¬ 
twixt the coralline folution and the' fpirit of wine, de¬ 
pends fo much upon the ftrength of the former liquor, 
and the dcpklegmcdnefs of the latter, that it is fcarcely pof- 
lible to determine generally and exactly what quantity of 
each ought to be taken. Boyle. 
To DEPHLOGIS'TICATE, v. a. [>, priv. and pxo- 
yufio<;, from cp^eyu, to burn.] To deprive of phlogifton, 
or the principle of heat; a term in chemiftry, adopted 
into the fyftems of Stahl and Prieftley ; but which has 
given way to the more appropriate term caloric. See 
Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 152, &c. 
To DEPI'CT, v. a. [ depingo, depitlum, Lat.] To paint; 
to pourtray; to reprefent in colours.—The cowards of 
Lacedemon depicled upon their fltields the mod terrible 
beafts they could imagine. Taylor. —To deferibe ; to re¬ 
prefent an action to the mind.—When the diftraftions of 
a tumult are,fenfibly depiEled, every objedt and every oc¬ 
currence -are fo prefented to your view, that while you 
read, you feem indeed to fee them. Felton. 
To DEPIC'TURE, v. a. \_de, Lat. and picture.'] To re¬ 
prefent in painting.—They craclct apieces the glafs-win- 
dows, wherein the effigies of our blefted Saviour hang¬ 
ing on the erode, or any one of his faints was depidlured. 
Weevir. 
DEPIGNA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and .province of Calabria Citra : three miles 
fouth-foutluweft of Cofenza. 
DEPILA'TION,y. A pulling off the hair. Bailey. 
DEPI'LATORY, adj. [depilatoire, Fr. of dcpilatorius, 
Lat.] Making the hair come off. 
DEPI'LATORY, f. \_de and pilus, Lat.] An applica¬ 
tion 11 fed to take away hair. 
DE'PILOUS, adj. [_de and pilus, Lat.] Without hair. 
—This animal is a kind of lizard, or quadruped corti¬ 
cated and depilous ; that is, without wool, fur, or hair. 
Brown. 
To DE'PLANT, v. a. [deplanter, Fr. of dcplantare t 
Lat.] To tranfplant. 
DEPLANTA'TION, f. [deplanto, Lat.] The aft of 
taking plants up from the bed. 
DEPLE'TION, f \_dcpleo', depletus, Lat.] The a£t of 
emptying.—Abftinence and a (lender diet attenuates, be- 
caufe depletion of the veffels gives room to the fluid to ex¬ 
pand itfelf. Arbuthnot. 
DEPLO'RABLE, adj. [from deploro, Lat.] Lamenta¬ 
ble ; that which demands or caufes lamentation; difmal; 
fad; calamitous; miferable ; hopelefs.—This was the 
deplorable condition to which the king was reduced. Cla¬ 
rendon .—The bill, of all weapons, gives the moft ghaftly 
and deplorable wounds. Temple .—It is fometimes, in a 
more lax and jocular fenfe, ufed for contemptible ; def- 
picable : as, deplorable nonfenfe ; deplorable ftupidity. 
DEPLO'RABLENESS,y. The ftateof being deplor. 
able; mifery; hopeleffnefs. 
DEPLO'RABLY, adv. Lamentably; miferably; hope- 
lefsly: often in a fenfe of contempt.—Notwithftanding 
all their talk of reafon and philofophy, God knows they 
are deplorably ftrangers to them. South. 
DEPLO'RATE, .adj. [deploratus, Lat.] Lamentable; 
hopelefs.—The cafe is then moft dcplorate, when reward 
goes over to the .wrong fide. VEf range. 
DEPLORA'TION,y The act of deploring, or of la¬ 
menting. 
To DEPLO'RE, v. a. \_dcploro, Lat.] To lament; to 
bewail; to mourn ; to bemoan ; to exprefs forrow : 
But chafte Diana, who his death deplor'd. 
With yEfculapian herbs his life reftor’d. Dryden. 
DEPLO'RER,y A lamenter; a mourner; one that 
laments. 
DEPLUMA'TION,/. [deplumatio, Lat.] A pluming, 
or 
