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ˈdissipated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. vb. + -ed1.]
1. Dispersed, scattered, dispelled, wasted, frittered away.
1609Bible (Douay) Isa. xxxiii. 8 The wayes are dissipated, the passenger by the path hath ceased. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 521 So did they think a resurrection of corrupted, dissolved, and dissipated bodies, to be..impossible. 1683Howe Let. to Lady Russell in H. Rogers Life viii. (1863) 201 To recollect ourselves, and recover our dissipated spirits. a1711Ken Hymns Festiv. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 387 At the great Day of all the Just, You shall collect the dissipated Dust. 1738Johnson London 20 Of dissipated wealth the small remains. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest (1806) III. xix. 195 Adeline..had now recollected her dissipated thoughts. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 58 Freedom of thinking was only an empty watchword, the name for a dissipated fashion.
†b. Devoid of concentration.
1748Chesterfield Lett. (1792) II. clxxv. 150 Many young people are so light, so dissipated, and so incurious, that they can hardly be said to see what they see.
2. Given to or characterized by dissipation; dissolute.
1744Johnson L.P., Savage Wks. 1796 X. 400 An irregular and dissipated manner of life had made him the slave of every passion. 1784Cowper Task iii. 376 Who seeks A social, not a dissipated life. 1788Wesley Serm. lxxix. Dissipation, King Charles the second, one of the most dissipated mortals that ever breathed. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre x, A dissipated young man. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 183 Augustine passed his restless youth in dissipated pleasures and desultory studies. 1865Alford in Life (1873) 384 We are making out a dissipated week at the Macnaughten's. |