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Deprived of arms.

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.

To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such. Abbott.

To drive from a bench or seat. [R.] Shak.

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

To drive from a camp. [Obs.] Holland.

To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [R.]

To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church. Bp. Hall.

To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive oas, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.

To deprive of a commission or trust. [R.] Laud.

To deprive of the right of common. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]

To deprive if content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. Suckling.

a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States.

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] Jas. II.

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21.…

To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of. An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype.

To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.