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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1590-1667
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Dilapidat, v. and p.p. [e.m.E. dilapidate (1570). Cf. Delapidat.] tr. a. To dissipate, squander, do away with. b. To break down.a. 1590 Row 408.
All quho have dilapidat benefices … to the preiudice of the Kirk 1626 Wemyss of Bogie MSS.
To sell, annalie, wadset, dilapidat and put away … thair landis 1663 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XIV. 40.
To sett, raise, sell, dispone, dilapidat and away put … the saids lands 1667 Edinburgh Testaments LXXIII. 93 b.
[If] my eldest sone … sall … dilapidat spend or putt away any of his meanes … left to himb. 1665 Melrose R. Rec. II. 130.
[Those who] doeth dilapidat and demolishe the said water wall
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