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Dilapidate v. t. (past & past part. dilapidated; pres. part. dilapidating)

To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; said of a building. "If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony."

To impair by waste and abuse; to squander. "The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated."

Dilapidate v. i. To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.

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"Dilapidate" Quotes from Famous Books

... poet Satchells's father) "had Southinrigg for his service" to Buccleuch, says Sir William Fraser, in his Memoirs of the House of Buccleuch. (See Satchells, 1892, pp. vii., viii.) But the "fathers" of Satchells "having dilapidate and engaged their Estate by Cautionary," poor Satchells was brought up as a cowherd, till he went to the wars, and never learned to write, or even, it seems, to read; as he says in the Dedication of his book to ...

— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang

... mathematician. The Abbot of Aghabo (Queen's County) was canonized by Gregory IX, in 1233. The story of the second, or scapegoat, Virgil would be much damaged by the character given to the real bishop, if there were anything in it to dilapidate.—A. De M. ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan