DEPUTE

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate. There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. 2. Sam. xv. 3. Some persons, deputed by a meeting. Macaulay.

2.
v.

To appoint; to assign; to choose. [R.] The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. Barrow.

3.
n.

A person deputed; a deputy. [Scot.]


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