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Webster 1913 Edition

Depasture

De-pas′ture

(?; 135)
,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.
[R.]
Cattle, to graze and
departure
in his grounds.
Blackstone.
A right to cut wood upon or
departure
land.
Washburn.

Webster 1828 Edition

Depasture

DEPASTURE

,
Verb.
T.
To eat up; to consume.

DEPASTURE

,
Verb.
I.
To feed; to graze.
If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment-

Definition 2024

depasture

depasture

English

Verb

depasture ‎(third-person singular simple present depastures, present participle depasturing, simple past and past participle depastured)

  1. (archaic) To eat up; consume; strip.
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, lxxix:
      Earth like the patient was whose lively blood / Hath overcome at last some sickness strong, / Whose feeble limbs had been the bait and food / Whereon his strange disease depastur'd long.
  2. (archaic) To feed or pasture; to graze.
    • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 18, page 184)
      The butter, rich and yellow as the gowaned bank on which the milky mother has depastured, is probably taken directly from the churn.

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

dēpāstūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of dēpāstūrus

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