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▪ I. † ˈdepravate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. dēprāvātus, pa. pple. of dēprāvāre to deprave.]
Depraved, corrupted, demoralized.
152.Barclay Sallust's Jugurth 15 b, A great part of the Senatours were..so deprauat that they contemned and set at nought þe words of Adherball. 1538Hen. VIII in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 137 Thynges..which, nowe beinge deprauate, are lyke..to be the vtter ruine of Christen relygyon. a1555Bradford Wks. 166 Seeing my corruption and depravate nature. 1665G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 15 Contributing to the generation of depravate bloud.
Hence † ˈdepravately adv.
1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. ii. 15 A consumption of the parts of the body, weakly, or depravately, or not at all attracting nutriment.
▪ II. † depravate, v. Obs. or arch.|ˈdɛprəveɪt|
[f. L. dēprāvāt-, ppl. stem of dēprāvāre to deprave.]
trans. = deprave.
1548Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. vii. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 345 To depravate the use of the sacraments otherwise than they be taught in the scripture. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 625 The Pharesies & Saduces, which with their gloses deprauated the Scriptures. 1609J. Davies Holy Roode xxiii, The rest, in depth of scorne and hate, His Diuine Truth with taunts doe deprauate. 1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. i. (1861) 27 The belief that a child's nature is somehow depravated by descent from parents. |
