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▪ 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. díepan, dýpan, to make deep, to submerge.]
1. To immerse as a religious rite, to baptize.
c960Rushw. 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. c1315Shoreham 11 Olepi me mot hym depe ine the water. 1340Ayenb. 107 Vor depe and cristni is al on.
2. To immerse, submerge, plunge deeply, dip. See also deep v. 4.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 23 Se ðe depeð mec mið hond in disc. 1340Ayenb. 83 Efterward he depþ ine blod. 1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 69 Othere bisshopis that ben not so depid in errour. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 34 Protestants are now a days so deped in darcknes. [a1608Sir 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. |
单词 depravement 释义 depravement arch.|dprevmnt|[f. deprave v. + -ment.]Depravation, perv......