The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depasture \De*pas"ture\ (?; 135), v. t. & i. To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.]
Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds.
--Blackstone.
A right to cut wood upon or departure land.
--Washburn.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (label en archaic) To eat up; consume; strip. 2 (label en archaic) To feed or pasture; to graze.
Usage examples of "depasture".
Folk proclaimed in any house or under any roof, nor even as aforesaid on the tilled acres or the depastured meadows.
The area of the colony was 460,000 square miles, of which area 124,000 square miles were occupied by that singular aristocracy called squatters, men who rent vast tracts of land from Government for the depasturing of their flocks, at an almost nominal sum, subject to a tax of so much a head on their sheep and cattle.
These districts, with the twenty-four counties, contain the stock, which is much larger than that depasturing upon purchased land.
Folk proclaimed in any house or under any roof, nor even as aforesaid on the tilled acres or the depastured meadows.
And all that while, right ouer him she hong,With her false eyes fast fixed in his sight,As seeking medicine, whence she was stong,Or greedily depasturing delight:And oft inclining downe with kisses light,For feare of waking him, his lips bedewd,And through his humid eyes did sucke his spright,Quite molten into lust and pleasure lewd.