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shamefaced (medicine) and depascent (iou)


shamefaced (medicine)


shamefaced


Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. "Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise." (Dryden)

Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face, have brought it to its present orthography. Shame"faced, Shame"facedness.

Origin: For shamefast; AS. Scamfst. See Shame, and Fast firm.

Source: Websters Dictionary


depascent (iou)



depascent adjective. rare. M17.
[Latin depascent- pres. ppl stem of depascere eat up, consume, from de- DE- 1 + pascere feed, pasture: see -ENT.]
Consuming.