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Depict (d�pĭkt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depicting.] 1. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
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His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.
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2. To represent in words; to describe vividly.
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Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley.
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depicted adj. represented graphically by sketch or design or lines.
Syn. -- pictured, portrayed.
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Depiction (?), n. [L. depictio.] A painting or depicting; a representation.
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Depicture (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depictured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Depicturing.] To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.
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Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
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Depilate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Depilating.] [L. depilatus, p. p. of depilare to depilate; de- + pilare to put forth hairs, pilus hair.] To strip of hair; to husk. Venner.
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Depilation (?), n. [Cf. F. dépilation.] Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing. Dryden.
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Depilatory (?), a. [Cf. F. dépilatoire.] Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n. An application used to take off hair.
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Depilous (?), a. [Pref. de- + pilous: cf. L. depilis.] Hairless. Sir t. Browne.
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Deplanate (?), a. [L. deplanetus, p. p. of deplanare to make level. See , v. t.] (Bot.) Flattened; made level or even.
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Deplant (?), v. t. [Pref. de- + plan: cf. F. déplanter, L. deplantare to take off a twig. See , v. t.] To take up (plants); to transplant. [R.]
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Deplantation (?), n. [Cf. F. déplantation.] Act of taking up plants from beds.
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Deplete (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depleting.] [From L. deplere to empty out; de- + plere to fill. Forined like replete, complete. See , , a.] 1. (Med.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.
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2. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.
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depleted adj. 1. no longer sufficient; as, our funds are depleted.
Syn. -- low.
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2. having resources completely depleted.
Syn. -- drained.
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Depletion (?), n. [Cf. F. déplétion.] 1. The act of depleting or emptying.
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2. (Med.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
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Depletive (?), a. [Cf. F. déplétif.] Able or fitted to deplete. -- n. A substance used to deplete.
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Depletory (?), a. Serving to deplete.
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Deplication (?), n. [LL. deplicare to unfold; L. de- + plicare to fold.] An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. [Obs.] W. Montagu.
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Deploitation (?), n. [Cf. , .] Same as Exploitation.
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Deplorability (?), n. Deplorableness. Stormonth.
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Deplorable (?), a. [Cf. F. déplorable.] Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
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Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.
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Deplorableness, n. State of being deplorable.
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Deplorably, adv. In a deplorable manner.
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Deplorate (?), a. [L. deploratus, p. p. of deplorare. See .] Deplorable. [Obs.]
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A more deplorate estate. Baker.
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Deploration (?), n. [L. deploratio: cf. F. déploration.] The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. Speed.
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Deplore (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deplored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deploring.] [L. deplorare; de- + plorare to cry out, wail, lament; prob. akin to pluere to rain, and to E. flow: cf. F. déplorer. Cf. Flow.] 1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
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To find her, or forever to deplore
Her loss. Milton.
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As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope.
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2. To complain of. [Obs.] Shak.
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3. To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.] Bacon.

Syn. -- To , , , , . Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children.
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Deplore, v. i. To lament. Gray.
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Deploredly (?), adv. Lamentably.
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Deploredness, n. The state of being deplored or deplorable. [R.] Bp. Hail.
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Deplorement (?), n. Deploration. [Obs.]
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Deplorer (?), n. One who deplores.
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Deploringly, adv. In a deploring manner.
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Deploy (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Deployed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deploying.] [F. déployer; pref. dé� = dés (L. dis) + ployer, equiv. to plier to fold, fr. L. plicare. See , and cf. .] (Mil.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.
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deploy (?), v. t. To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use.
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{ Deploy (?), Deployment (?), } n. (Mil.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. Wilhelm.
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Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war. H. L. Scott.
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deployment n. the arrangement or distribution (of resources such as people or equipment), in preparation for battle or work.
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Deplumate (?), a. [LL. diplumatus, p. p. of deplumare. See .] (Zoöl.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
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Deplumation (?), n. [See .] 1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet
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2. (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.
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Deplume (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deplumed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Depluming.] [LL. deplumare; L. de- + plumare to cover with feathers, pluma feather: cf. deplumis featherless, and F. déplumer.] 1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
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On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.
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2. To lay bare; to expose.
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The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.
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Depolarization (?), n. [Cf. F. dépolarisation.] The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
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Coloq. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition.
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Depolarize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depolarized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Depolarizing.] [Pref. de- + polarize: cf. F. dépolarizer.] 1. (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
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☞ This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer.
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2. (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
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Depolarizer (?), n. (Elec.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
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Depolish (d�pŏlĭsh), v. t. To remove the polish or glaze from.
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Depolishing (d�pŏlĭshĭng), n. (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain. Knight.
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Depone (d�pōn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deponed (-pōnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Deponing.] [L. deponere, depositum, to put down, in LL., to assert under oath; de- + ponere to put, place. See , and cf. .] 1. To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] Hudibras.
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2. To lay down. [R.] Southey.
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3. To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism]
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Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).
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Depone, v. i. To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism]
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The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.
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Deponent (?), n. [L. deponenes, -entis, laying down. See , v. t.] 1. (Law) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.
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2. (Gr. & Lat. Gram.) A deponent verb.

Syn. -- , . These are legal terms describing a person who makes a written declaration under oath, with a view to establish certain facts. An affiant is one who makes an affidavit, or declaration under oath, in order to establish the truth of what he says. A deponenet is one who makes a deposition, or gives written testimony under oath, to be used in the trial of some case before a court of justice. See under .
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Deponent, a. [L. deponens, -entis, laying down (its proper passive meaning), p. pr. of deponere: cf. F. déponent. See .] (Gram.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.
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Depopulacy (?), n. Depopulation; destruction of population. [R.] Chapman.
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Depopulate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depopulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Depopulating (?).] [L. depopulatus, p. p. of depopulari to ravage; de- + populari to ravage, fr. populus people: cf. OF. depopuler, F. dépeupler. See .] To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
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Where is this viper,
That would depopulate the city? Shak.
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☞ It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers; as, the deluge depopulated the earth.
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Depopulate, v. i. To become dispeopled. [R.]
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Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.
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Depopulation (?), n. [L. depopulatio pillaging: cf. F. dépopulation depopulation.] The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
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The desolation and depopulation [of St.Quentin] were now complete. Motley.
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Depopulator (?), n. [L., pillager.] One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
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Deport (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deported; p. pr. & vb. n. Deporting.] [F. déporter to transport for life, OF., to divert, amuse, from L. deportare to carry away; de- + portare to carry. See demeanor.] 1. To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment; to expel (from a region or country).
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He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.
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2. To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
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Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince. Pope.
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Deport (?), n. Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment. [Obs.] “Goddesslike deport.” Milton.
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Deportation (?), n. [L. depotatio: cf. F. déportation.] The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
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In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.
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deportee n. a person who was expelled from home or country by governmental authority; one who has been deported.
Syn. -- exile.
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Deportment (?), n. [F. déportement misconduct, OF., demeanor. See .] Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
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The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties. Swift.
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Deporture (?), n. Deportment. [Obs.]
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Stately port and majestical deporture. Speed.
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Deposable (?), a. Capable of being deposed or deprived of office. Howell.
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Deposal (?), n. The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne. Fox.
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Depose (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deposed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deposing.][FF. déposer, in the sense of L. deponere to put down; but from pref. dé- (L. de) + poser to place. See , .] 1. To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside. [Obs.]
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Thus when the state one Edward did depose,
A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden.
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2. To let fall; to deposit. [Obs.]
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Additional mud deposed upon it. Woodward.
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3. To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
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A tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed. Prynne.
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4. To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use. Abbott.
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To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands. Bacon.
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5. To put under oath. [Obs.]
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Depose him in the justice of his cause. Shak.
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Depose, v. i. To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
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Then, seeing't was he that made you to despose,
Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. Shak.
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Deposer (?), n. 1. One who deposes or degrades from office.
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2. One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.
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Deposit (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deposited; p. pr. & vb. n. Depositing.] [L. depositus, p. p. of deponere. See , and cf. , n.] 1. To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.
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The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor.
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2. To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.
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3. To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.
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4. To lay aside; to rid one's self of. [Obs.]
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If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which I can not but deem an error. Hammond.
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☞ Both this verb and the noun following were formerly written deposite.
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Deposit, n. [L. depositum, fr. depositus, p. p. of deponere: cf. F. dépôt, OF. depost. See , v. t., and cf. .] 1. That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river).
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The deposit already formed affording to the succeeding portion of the charged fluid a basis. Kirwan.
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2. (Mining) A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation. Raymond.
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3. That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.
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4. (Law) (a) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor. (b) Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.
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5. A place of deposit; a depository. [R.]
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Coloq. Bank of deposit . See under . -- Coloq. In deposit , or Coloq. On deposit , in trust or safe keeping as a deposit; as, coins were received on deposit.
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Depositary (?), n.; pl. Depositaries (#). [L. depositarius, fr. deponere. See .] 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor.
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I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak.
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The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people. J. S. Mill.
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2. A storehouse; a depository. Bp. Hurd.
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3. (Law) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent.
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Deposition (?), n. [L. depositio, fr. deponere: cf. F. déposition. See .] 1. The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
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The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.
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2. The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
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The influence of princes upon the dispositions of their courts needs not the deposition of their examples, since it hath the authority of a known principle. W. Montagu.
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