3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.
De*prive" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deprived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private.] 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.]
'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life.
Shak.
2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
God hath deprived her of wisdom.
Job xxxix. 17.
It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself.
Macaulay.
3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
A minister deprived for inconformity.
Bacon.
Syn. -- To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.