Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Deprave

Deprave (de*prāv") , transitive verb

[Latin depravare, depravatum; de- + pravus crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked.]

1.
To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. [Obsolete]
And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. — Piers Plowman
2.
To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
Whose pride depraves each other better part. — Spenser