▪ I. deˈpauperate, ppl. a.
Also 5–6 -at.
[ad. L. dēpauperāt-us, pa. pple. of dēpauperāre: see next.]
Made poor; impoverished (obs. in general use); b. Bot., etc. = depauperated.
| 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. 103 Alle tho that were depauperat and spoiled be his predecessoure. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 404 The depauperat saullis that this day dwell thairin. 1670 Lex Talionis 26 It loses much of its vivacity, and becomes depauperate and affect. 1863 A. Gray Lett. (1893) 508 Inclosed are depauperate specimens [of the seeds]. 1883 Syd. Soc. Lex., Depauperate, impoverished; as if starved; diminished in size for want of favourable conditions of nourishment, and such like. Also..having no, or few, flowers. |
▪ II. depauperate, v.
(dɪˈpɔːpəreɪt)
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. dēpauperāre to impoverish, reduce to poverty, f. de- I. 1 + pauperāre to make poor, f. pauper poor.]
trans. To render poor, to impoverish; to reduce in quality, vigour, or capacity.
| 1623 Cockeram, Depauperate, to impouerish. 1647 Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. ii. §7 To represent God in a carved stone, or a painted Table, does depauperate our understanding of God. 1668 Phil. Trans. III. 891 The blood is now..depauperated of the spirituous and finer particles. 1708 Molyneux ibid. XXVI. 59 Liming..doth not so much Depauperate the Ground. 1752 Carte Hist. Eng. III. 728 Bishops..had made shameful depredations on the church and depauperated many of the sees. 1886 Ch. Times 5 Nov. 173/2 By depauperating the national creed. |
Hence deˈpauperating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1770 Monthly Rev. 20 In this depauperating and attenuating course the patient..persevered. |