deperdits
English
Noun
deperdits pl (plural only)
- (obsolete) Things lost or destroyed.
- 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, chapter 5, objection #4:
- […] we might have nations of human beings without nails upon their fingers, with more or fewer fingers and toes than ten... No reason can be given why, if these deperdits ever existed, they have now disappeared.
References
- “deperdit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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