▪ I. † depe, v. Obs.
[OE. (Anglian) dépan = OFris. dépa, OS. dópian (MDu. dôpen, Du. doopen, LG. döpen, whence Sc. döpa, Da. döbe), OHG. toufen, touffan (:—toufjan, MHG. töufen, toufen, Ger. taufen), Goth. daupjan, ‘to baptize’; in MHG., MDu. (and Goth. ufdaupjan) with the wider sense ‘to immerse, to dip’; OTeut. *daupjan causal of *deupan, daup, dupan- to be deep, *deupoz, Goth. diups, deep. But in ME. this verb ran together with the cognate depe, deep, OE. d{iacu}epan, d{yacu}pan, to make deep, to submerge.]
1. To immerse as a religious rite, to baptize.
| c 960 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. iii. 11 Ic eowic depu vel dyppe wættre. Ibid. 13 Þætte he wære depid. Ibid. 14 Ic sceal fram þe beon vel wesa deped vel fullwihted. c 1315 Shoreham 11 Olepi me mot hym depe ine the water. 1340 Ayenb. 107 Vor depe and cristni is al on. |
2. To immerse, submerge, plunge deeply, dip. See also deep v. 4.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 23 Se ðe depeð mec mið hond in disc. 1340 Ayenb. 83 Efterward he depþ ine blod. 1395 Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 69 Othere bisshopis that ben not so depid in errour. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 34 Protestants are now a days so deped in darcknes. [a 1608 Sir F. Vere Comment. (1657) 34 The measure and time..which they were to observe in the deeping of their oares.] |
▪ II. depe
Obs. form of deep a. and v.