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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.

To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

e substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc. There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king. 1 Kings xxii. 4…

t; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.

In destitution.

Destitution. [R.] Ash.

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

One who marries the second time.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

The writer of Deuteronomy.

The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.

ond sight. I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye. Sir W. Scott.

imary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

Same as Deutohydroguret.

ed the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi- or di-, although little used.

A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical. [Obs.]