Dictionary

deperdition en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle French deperdition (French déperdition).

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Synonym of loss or destruction.
   • For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaſter the reſiſtance of the patient, there will enſue no deperdition. 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:
   • 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. 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
   • deperdition of water from the organism 1882, James Compton Burnett, Essays:

Forms

Synonyms

loss or destruction