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1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries., London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee, →OCLC:
without loss or dissipation of the matter
a.1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery,, published 1677, →OCLC:
the famous dissipation of mankind
A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
18th century, Patrick Henry in a parliamentary debate
to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.
He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad, →OL:
This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia,
An oil lamp burned upon a high, old-fashioned mantel, casting its dim rays over a dozen repulsive figures. All but one were men. The other was a woman of about thirty. Her face, marked by low passions and dissipation, might once have been lovely.
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