DEPRECIATE Copy link • DEPRECIATETo lessen the price, levare pretia alicujus rei: to depreciate corn, annonam laxare or levare; ☞ depretiare late; Paullus, Dig., 9, 2, 22. To undervalue, detrabere de aliqua re, or de aliquo (to depreciate or detract from the value of anything, or anybody): to speak of anybody in order to depreciate his character, de aliquo detrahendi causa dicere: to depreciate anybody’s actions, elevare res gestas; elevare alicujus praeclare acta (Liv.); anybody’s credit or authority, elevare aliquem or alicujus auctoritatem; levare alicujus auctoritatem: to depreciate or speak against anybody, or anything, obtrectare alicui, and alicui rei, or (seldomer) aliquid; alicujus laudibus and alicujus laudes: every one extols himself and depreciates his neighbor, ita se quisque extollit, ut deprimat alium (Liv.).