Destitute, adj. 1) forsaken: “whose ranks of blue veins, as his hand did scale, left their round turrets d. and pale,” Lucr. 441. With of, == stripped, deprived of: “the king himself of his wings d.” Cymb. V, 3, 5.
2) wanting: “wherein we are not d. for want,” Per. V, 1, 57.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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