
Noah Webster
Deprave
DEPRAVE, verb transitive [Latin Crooked, perverse, wicked.]
1. To make bad or worse; to impair good qualities; to make bad qualities worse; to vitiate; to corrupt; as, to deprave manners, morals, government, laws; to deprave the heart, mind, will, understanding, taste, principles, etc.
2. To defame; to vilify.