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Definition of Dilapidation
1. Noun. A state of deterioration due to old age or long use.
2. Noun. The process of becoming dilapidated.
Definition of Dilapidation
1. n. The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
Definition of Dilapidation
1. Noun. The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention. ¹
3. Noun. (British legal) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dilapidation
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilapidation
Literary usage of Dilapidation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Architectural Jurisprudence: In which the by James Elmes (1827)
"Lord Coke (a) says, that dilapidation of ecclesiastical palaces, houses and
buildings, ... Definition of | I- — dilapidation, in architectural jurispru- ..."
2. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1901)
"on British and Foreign Railways, 9 dilapidation Bill, 6 n 12 e—27 nId •Gibraltar,
... 5 n Sá 24 n 4 / Grimthorpe (Lord) on the dilapidation Bills, ..."
3. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"SECTION V. Judicial Inquiry into dilapidation of Ihe Delphian ... by the Phocian
government, concerning the dilapidation of the Delphian treasury, ..."
4. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1878)
"Spoliation, dilapidation, and Neglect to Repair the Church. ... dilapidation is
a kind of ecclesiastical waste committed by the incumbent, either voluntary, ..."
5. Handbook of House Property: A Popular and Practical Guide to the Purchase by Edward Lance Tarbuck (1880)
"Wherever accident has taken place, not only the accident itself is a dilapidation,
but all injuries arising to the building therefrom. ..."
6. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"dilapidation and peculation, which even Ferdinand's incessant vigilance could
not prevent, were the source of constant loss. ..."
7. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 by Robert Walsh (1831)
"Theatre visited with & Judgment for sacrilegious dilapidation of Church. ...
This sacrilegious dilapidation of a church, to finish a theatre, shocked, ..."
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