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Dilapidation n.

The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. "Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate."

Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. "The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York."

(Law) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dilapidation" Quotes from Famous Books

... might have imagined that the passionate plaint was directed at him. If so it passed harmlessly over his broad shoulders. In his immaculate evening dress he looked strangely out of place there. Enid had escaped the prevailing dilapidation, but her gown of grey homespun was severe as the garb of a ...

— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White

... by the sparks emitted from a low chimney, the din of the workman's hammer, and the dull heavy sound of the bellows, is distinguished as the abode of the village Vulcan; while the surrounding yard, with drays in various stages of dilapidation, wheels, poles, axles, and other dismemberments strewing the ground, presents the appearance of a perfect vehicular golgotha. With one or two wool-laden drays drawn up before a public-house, in which the guardians of the tractive ...

— Fern Vale (Volume 1) - or the Queensland Squatter • Colin Munro

... vocation which, if less agreeable, is certainly more profitable to himself. Occasionally one of these professional bookstallers blossoms into a shopkeeper in some court or alley off Holborn; but more generally they are too far gone in drink and dilapidation to get out of ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds. It is not a predilection to mean, sordid, home-bred cares that will avert the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or prevent the shameful dilapidation into which a great empire must fall by mean reparation ...

— The Economist - Volume 1, No. 3 • Various

... they had endured in the time of the Commonwealth. Though the Parliamentary committee appointed to decide the question had happily decided against the demolition of cathedrals, they were allowed to fall into a miserable state of dilapidation ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

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