deperdition

See also: déperdition

English

Noun

deperdition (countable and uncountable, plural deperditions)

1. (archaic) Loss; destruction
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:

     For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaſter the reſiſtance of the patient, there will enſue no deperdition.

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:

     After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

Translations

loss, destruction

• French: déperdition (fr) f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deperdition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• diterpenoid