> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Goiser [mailto:squeak at wattle.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:57 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu; Bob Arning
> Subject: Re: On Removing Methods
> 
> Deprecate - what a silly word to use in this context.  My 
> Shorter Oxford
> says: "Deprecate ... 1) To pray against (evil); to seek to 
> avert by prayer;
> to pray for deliverance from 2) To plead earnestly against; to express
> earnest disapproval of 3) To beseech 4) To invoke (evil)."

According the online version of the good old Cambridge International
Dictionary of English (http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/dictionary/)

	deprecate (DISAPPROVE) verb [T] FORMAL 
	to (say that you do) not approve of (something) 
	We deprecate this use of company funds for political purposes.

I think this is definition (2) in your list above.  I suppose that the other
uses of deprecate are deprecated.  :-)

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken