Definition of "depasture" in English

verb

1. (archaic) To eat up, consume; to strip.

   • Earth like the patient was whose lively blood / Hath overcome at last some sickness strong, / Whose feeble limbs had been the bait and food / Whereon his strange disease depastur'd long.

2. (archaic) To feed or pasture; to graze.

   • The butter, rich and yellow as the gowaned bank on which the milky mother has depastured, is probably taken directly from the churn.