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noun

Depute n. A person deputed; a deputy. (Scot.)

verb

Depute v. t. (past & past part. deputed; pres. part. deputing)

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." "Some persons, deputed by a meeting."

To appoint; to assign; to choose. (R.) "The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... glad to make friends when there is a chance that the friendship will be a real one. He does not care very much for the working men of the towns, the ouvriers, with their fantastic theories of universal brotherhood and peace, and he hates the depute whom the working man elects as he hates a vine fungus. A needless timidity, some fear of showing himself off as a simpleton, has kept him from having his just influence in French politics; but the war is freeing him ...

— A Volunteer Poilu • Henry Sheahan

... doubt, the contention of the United States as to England's pretensions to a Right of Visit was technically correct. Nevertheless, it was clear that if the slave-trade was to be suppressed, each nation must either zealously keep her flag from fraudulent use, or, as a labor-saving device, depute to others this duty for limited places and under special circumstances. A failure of any one nation to do one of these two things meant that the efforts of all other nations were to be fruitless. The United States had invited the world ...

— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois

... scene is, by the common people, supposed to have been the castle of Newark, upon Yarrow. This is highly improbable, because Newark was always a royal fortress. Indeed, the late excellent antiquarian Mr. Plummer, sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire, has assured the editor, that he remembered the insignia of the unicorns, &c. so often mentioned in the ballad, in existence upon the old tower at Hangingshaw, the seat of the Philiphaugh family; although, upon first perusing a copy of the ballad, ...

— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

... I envy you; and if you don't feel like performing the rest of your mission, you can depute it to me. I don't know anything at this moment that would give me so ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... Chapelier was above-stairs with friends. The waiter desired to serve the gentleman, but hesitated to break in upon the assembly in which M. le Depute ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

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