Word Meanings - DEPUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

destine, allot; de- + putare to clean, prune, clear up, set in order, 1. 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

Additional info about word: DEPUTE

destine, allot; de- + putare to clean, prune, clear up, set in order, 1. 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. To appoint; to assign; to choose. The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. Barrow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPUTE)

• Accredit
• Believe
• trust
• entrust
• delegate
• depute
• commission
• authorize
• Constitute
• Form
• make
• compose
• appoint
• organize
• institute
• Delegate
• Appoint
• Devolve upon
• Impose
• place
• charge
• accrue
• attach
• befall
• fall
• Substitute
• Exchange
• commute
• represent
• replace
• supply

Related words: (words related to DEPUTE)

• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• BEFALL
  To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
• ACCREDIT
  1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. To send with letters credential, as an
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• ACCREDITATION
  The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• DEVOLVEMENT
  The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• ACCRUE
  Etym: 1. To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser. 2. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• SUBDELEGATE
  A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.