deperdits

English

Etymology

Late Latin deperditum, from Latin deperditus, past participle of deperdere.

Noun

deperdits pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete) Things lost or destroyed.
    • Paley, Natural Theology, chapter 5, objection #4
      […] we might have nations of human beings without nails upon their fingers, with more or fewer fingers and toes than ten... No reason can be given why, if these deperdits ever existed, they have now disappeared.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deperdits in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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