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To DEPREHE'ND, v. a. [deprehendo , Lat.] To catch 
one j to take unawares; to take in the fadt.—That 
wretched creature, being dcprehended in that impiety, was 
held in ward. Hooker, —Todifcover; to find out athing; 
to come to the knowledge or underftanding of.—The mo¬ 
tions of 'the minute parts of bodies, which do fo great 
effedfs, ai”e invifible, and incur not to the eye ; but yet 
they are to be dcprehtnded by experience. Bacon. 
DEPREHEN'SIBLE, adj. That may be caught. That 
may be apprehended, or discovered. 
DEPREHEN'SIBLENESS,/ Capablenefs of being 
caught. Intelligiblenefs ; eafinefs to be underftood. 
DEPREHEN'SION, f. [deprehenfo, Lat.] A catching 
or taking unawares. A difeovery. 
To DEPRE'SS, v. a. [from deprejfus , of deprimo, Lat.] 
To prefs or thruft down. To let fall ; to let down.— 
T he fame thing I have tried by letting a globe reft, and 
railing or dcprejjing the eye, or otherwife moving it, to 
make the angle of a juft magnitude. Newton .—To hum¬ 
ble ; todejecl; to fink.—If we confidet how often it breaks 
the gloom, which is apt to deprefs the mind, with tran- 
fient unexpended gleams of joy, one would take care not 
to grow too wife for fo great a pleafure of life. Addifon. 
Pafiion can deprefs or raifc 
The heavenly, as the human mind. Prior, 
DEPRESSION, f. \_deprefio, I.at.] The aft of preff- 
ing down.—Bricks of a rectangular form, if laid one by 
another in a level row, between Supporters fuftaining the 
two ends, all the pieces between will neceffarily fink by 
their own gravity ; and much more, if they fuflfer any de- 
prejjion by other weight above them. Wottcn .—The fink¬ 
ing or falling in of a furface.—The beams of light are 
Such ftibtile bodies, that, in refpeCt of them, even fur- 
faces, that are fenfibly fmooth, are not exactly fo : they 
have their own degree of roughnefs, confiding of little 
protuberances, and deprejjions ; and consequently Such in¬ 
equalities may Suffice to give bodies different colours, as 
we fee in marble, that appears white or black, or red or 
blue, even when mod carefully polifhed. Boyle .—The adt 
of humbling ; abafement.-— Depre/Jion of the nobility may 
make a king more abfolute, but lefs fafe. Bacon. 
DEPRESSION of an Equation, f. in Algebra, is 
the bringing it into lower and more Simple terms by di¬ 
vision. 
DEPRESSION of a Star, f. with aftronomers, is 
the diftance of a ftar from the horizon below, and is mea- 
iured by the arch of the vertical circle or azimuth, pair¬ 
ing through the ftar, intercepted between the ftar and the 
horizon. 
DEPRESSOR, f. [deprejfor , Lat.] He that keeps or 
prefles down. An oppreflor. 
DEPRESSOR, f. [from deprimo, Lat. to prefsdown.] 
In anatomy, a name of Several mufcles wliofe office it is 
to deprefs the parts to which they are faftened. 
DETRIMENT, adj. [from deprimens, of deprimo, Lat. J 
An epithet applied to one of the ftraight mufcles that 
move the globe or ball of the eye, its ufe being to pull 
it downwards.—The exquifite equilibration of all oppo¬ 
site and antagonift mufcles is effected partly by the natu¬ 
ral pofture of the body and the eye, which is the cafe of 
the attollent and depriment mufcles. Derharn. 
DEPRIVATION,/, [c/e and privatio, Lat.] The aft 
of depriving, or taking away from. The ftate of lofing. 
—Fools, whofe end is deftruction, and eternal deprivation 
of being. Bentley, 
DEPRIVATION, f. in law, is a Sentence whereby a 
clergyman is deprived of his parfonage, vicarage, or 
other Spiritual promotion or dignity. And the caufes of 
fuch deprivation arc properly and naturally determinable 
by the ecclefiaftical laws of this realm: but becaufe ge¬ 
nerally there are eftates of freehold dependant upon thefe 
romotions and dignities, and annexed to them infepara. 
ly, which reft at the foie determination of the common 
Saw ; the courts of common law do Sometimes infpedt 
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and regulate the proceedings of the ecclefiaftical courts; 
and where they proceed againft the rules of law, they 
frequently prohibit them : elpecially where fuch Sentence 
for any offence is inflidted by act of parliament. In all 
caufes of deprivation of a perfon actually polfefifed of a 
benefice, thefe things mud concur: i. A monition or ci¬ 
tation of'the party to appear. 2. A charge given him, 
to which he is to anfwer, called a libel. 3. A competent 
time affigned for the proofs and anfwers. 4. A liberty 
for counfel to defend his caufe, and to except againft 
the proofs and witneffes. 5. A folemn fentence, after 
hearing all five proofs and anfwers. Thefe are the fun¬ 
damentals of all judicial proceedings in the ecclefiaftical 
courts, in order to a deprivation. And if thefe things 
be not obferved, the party hath juft caufe of appeal, and 
may have a remedy by a Superior court. And thefe pro¬ 
ceedings are agreeable to the common juftice and reafon 
of mankind ; becaufe the party accufed hath the liberty 
of defence, and the right of appeal, x Still. 333. Ayl. 
Parerg. 309. By Can. 122. Sentence againft a minifter, 
of deprivation from his living, lhall be pronounced by 
the bifhop only, with the affiftance of his chancellor and 
dean (if they may conveniently be had), and fome of 
the prebendaries, if the court be kept near the cathedra) 
church ; or of the archdeacon, if he may be had conve¬ 
niently, and two other, at leaft,'grave minifters and preai It¬ 
ers to be called by the bifhop, when the court is kept in 
other places. 
The caufes of deprivation maybe clafled under two 
heads : x. Such as have been allowed by the common 
law, or created by ftatute. Thefe are as follow : r.Want 
of orders, before 13 & i4Car. II. c. 4. if a layman was 
prefented, inftituted, and indudled, he was parfon defatlo „ 
and acts done by him, while parfon, fuch as marriages, 
leafes, &c. were valid. Cro. Eliz. 775. But he might 
(till be deprived. Hob. 149. Cro.Car.65. Now the above- 
mentioned ftatute enacts, that no one fttall be capable to 
be admitted to any benefice who is not ordained prieft. 
2. Illiteracy, which lord Hobart fays, fubjedts a per¬ 
fon to deprivation, being malum in fe. Hob. 149.. 3. Want 
of age, now regulated by i3Eliz. c. 12. which declares 
admiffions, inftitutions, and inductions, contrary to the 
adt, void. Gib. Cod. 1068. 4. Simony, was a crime at 
the common law, Cro. Eliz. 686,789. and is now regu¬ 
lated by 31 Eliz. c.6. which declares the prefentation, 
inftitution, and induction, fo obtained, utterly void. 5. 
Plurality, by arHen.VIII. c.13. But before the fta¬ 
tute the firft benefice was void by ceflion, if the parfon 
took a feccnd without difpenfation. Yet though the pa¬ 
tron might prefent thereto if he would, he was not com¬ 
pellable to take notice till deprivation. Cro. Car. 357. 
Plurality was forbidden by the ancient canon law, and 
by the confutations of Othobon and archbifhop Pecham. 
Gib. Cod. 903. 6. Convidtion of treafon, murder, or fe¬ 
lony, by the temporal courts, on which convidtion the 
ecclefiaftical courts may build a fentence of deprivation. 
Hob. 121. But they cannot hold a plea of the crown. 
The power of degrading clerks, convidt of certain of 
thefe offences, is referved to the ecclefiaftical court by 
23 Hen. VIII. c. 1. 7. Incumbent refufing to ufe the 
Book of Common Prayer, or fpeaking or preaching any 
thing in derogation thereof, or ufing any other rite or 
ceremony, being'thereof twice convidted, Hi all ipfo faEta 
be deprived. 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 1, and 1 Eliz. c. 2. 8, 
Not publicly reading the thirty-nine articles of religion 
in the church whereof he has cure, in the time of com¬ 
mon prayer, with declaration of his unfeigned aflent 
thereunto within two months after indudtion, ffiall he 
ipfo facto immediately deprived. 13 Eliz. c. J2. 9. Not 
being admitted to adminifter the facraments within one 
year after indudlion, if not admitted before, fhal! be 
ipfo faElo immediately deprived. 15 Eliz. c.i3. which 
is conformable with the ancient law of the qlnuvh. 
Lind. 64, 10. Advifedly maintaining or affirming any 
dodtrine contrary to the thirty-nine 'articles, and when 
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