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Dilapidation n.

The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. "Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate."

Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. "The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York."

(Law) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.

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Etymology of 'Dilapidation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dilapidation" Quotes from Famous Books

... dilapidation, which you will observe includes the total loss of the date, signature and stamp, I am forced to the reluctant conclusion that your bankers will show a marked disinclination to honour what ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... was in the year 1797, in a small workshop and smithy situated in Wells Street, Oxford Street. It was in an awful state of dirt and dilapidation when he became its tenant. He entered the place on a Friday, but by the Saturday evening, with the help of his excellent wife, he had the shop thoroughly cleaned, whitewashed, and put in readiness for beginning ...

— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... engraved above, and it will be seen that it has suffered some little dilapidation since the last published engraving of it. The legs have been cut down to suit the height of one of his successors in the ministry!! With regard to the pulpit, an old resident in Bedford says—The celebrated John Howard presented a ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... it. In all probability, the change produced in the art of warfare, by the introduction of cannon, caused it silently to pass into insignificance, and then gradually to sink into its present wretched state of dilapidation. Towards the close of the seventeenth century, an hospital was established within its walls; and the same still subsists, but in great poverty, in consequence of the funds having been alienated, ...

— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman

... visions that had come to her the first day she and her father had come to the farm, and through all its dilapidation and neglect, she had seen that it could be made into a home of comfort and prosperity, and now the dream had come true. The Watson family were thriving; their farm had not failed them; comforts, and even a few luxuries were theirs, and Pearl's ...

— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

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