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To deprive of spiritually. South.

Deprived of a spleen.

To deprive of state or dignity. [R.] High-battled Cæsar will unstate his happiness. Shak.

To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast.

Deprived of stockings.

To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.

To deprive of a taste for a thing. [R.] Daniel.

To deprive of temper, or of the proper degree of temper; to make soft.

To deprive of ligaments; to loose the ligaments of. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints. Milton.

To deprive of a tongue, or of voice. [Obs.] Fuller.

Deprived of treasure. [Obs.] Shak.

To deprive of the position or office a vicar. [R.] Strype.

Deprived of the faculty of will or volition. Mrs. Browning.

To deprive of wit. [Obs.] Shak.

To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. [R.] R. Browning.

To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room. Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. Shak. Being of those virtues vacant. Shak. There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Longfellow.

To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause. That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. Eikon Basilike. The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of…

To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Neh. vi. 9.…