deperdition

From Middle French deperdition (French déperdition).^[1]

deperdition (countable and uncountable, plural deperditions)

1. (archaic) Synonym of loss or destruction.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:

     For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaſter the reſiſtance of the patient, there will enſue no deperdition.

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:

     After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

   • 1882, James Compton Burnett, Essays:

     deperdition of water from the organism

• “deperdition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• diterpenoid