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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Depauperat, p.p. and ppl. adj. [ME. (1460), L. dēpauperātus.] Reduced to poverty; impoverished. (In common use c 1560–1650.)(1)1555 Peebles B. Rec. 223.
Quhairthrow ... our said burgh [is] depauperat and heriit1561 Reg. Privy C. I. 191.
Sik exorbitant derth … is resin … that the pouer servandis … and utheris leigis … wil be thairby alluterlie depauperat 1576 Comp. Zetl. MS. 28 b.
We ar altogidder depauperat and hes not to sustene our expensis 1583 Reg. Privy C. III. 591.
William Moffett [etc.] … tuik away the haill insicht … upoun the samin landis, and thairthrow hes alluterlie depauperat the puir tennentis thairof 1599 Conv. Burghs II. 52.
Thair said brugh was alluterle depauperat be the merkettis … kepit at the unfre clauchan of Menygolff 1608 Stirling Merch. Guild 27.
Seeing it is notourlie known to thame all that thair brother, Donald Vre, is depauperat be brekking of his bouth be limmers and theivis 1656 Family Innes 183.
I find the wholl tenantry much depauperat 1708 Conv. Burghs IV. 453.
Wherby … many people … become depauperat and burdings to the places of their residence(2) 1558-66 Knox I. 404.
Dumbar [etc.] … with the depauperat saullis that this day dwell thairin 1596 Montgomery Mem. 235.
I leve to the pure depauperat houshalders, … ijc merkis 1606 Alford Rec. 81.
John Deins, merchand, ane depauperat man by shipwrack 1635 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 35.
Divers decayed and depauperat persounes 1651 Burnett Fam. P. MS.
The hospitall built … for the … support of old indwelleris, depauperat & decriepit persones 1684 Glamis Bk. of Record 51.
Besyds great losses which I haue sustained by depauperat tenents
