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Depositary   /dəpˈɑzɪtˌɛri/  /dɪpˈɑzɪtˌɛri/   Listen
noun
Depositary  n.  (pl. depositaries)  
1.
One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; the correlative of depositor. "I... made you my guardians, my depositaries." "The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people."
2.
A storehouse; a depository.
3.
(Law) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense.





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"Depositary" Quotes from Famous Books



... perform the part of your legatee," said he, "till to-morrow; then I will find some other depositary. Here you must know that heirship is rapid, and that the will is executed before the ink is dry." He turned away to hide a tear. "I have not known you long, sir," said he; "but in this place we must be expeditious ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844 • Various
... its work. The principle of power was entirely displaced: royalty had ended by believing that it was the exclusive depositary of power. It had demanded of religion to consummate this robbery in the eyes of the people, by telling them that tyranny came from God, and was responsible to God only. The long heirship of throned races had made it believed that there was a right of ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... commensurate to it appears to be demonstrable. It is not a great deal larger than Germany, where a diet representing the whole empire is continually assembled; or than Poland before the late dismemberment, where another national diet was the depositary of the supreme power. Passing by France and Spain, we find that in Great Britain, inferior as it may be in size, the representatives of the northern extremity of the island have as far to travel to the national council as will be required of those of the most remote parts ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
... their marriage, hardly a thought had passed through her mind which she had not shared with her husband. But now all this had come upon her so suddenly, that she was unable to think whether it would be well that she should become the depositary of such a secret—not to be mentioned to Lucy's brother, not to be mentioned to her own husband. But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... than the popular passions and national sins which have brought that instability in close proximity to his own times. This sensitive and foreboding disposition was much increased by the death of his daughter—a charming child of fourteen, the companion of his wanderings, the depositary of his thoughts, the darling of his affections—who was snatched away in the spring of life, when in health and joy, by one of the malignant fevers incident to the pestilential plains ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various


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