Definition of Dilapedation
Di*lap`i*da"tion (?), n. [L.
dilapidatio: cf. F. dilapidation.] 1.
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.
Burke.
2. 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.
Strype.
3. (Law) The pulling down of a
building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.
Burrill.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
- Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
- The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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