Word Meanings - DEPUTIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• STEAD
  OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, stätte, Icel. staedhr, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta, and E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. 1. Place, or spot, in general. Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. Spenser. 2. Place or room
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• STEADING
  The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called
• APPOINTOR
  The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
• STEADFASTNESS
  The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy. "The steadfastness of your faith." Col. ii. 5. To prove her wifehood and her steadfastness. Chaucer.
• APPOINTIVE
  Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
• APPOINT
  To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
• EMPOWER
  1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give
• STEADFAST
  1. Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser. 2. Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. "Steadfast eye." Shak. Abide steadfast unto him in the time of his
• STEADILY
  In a steady manner.
• DEPUTY
  1. One appointed as the 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.
• APPOINTABLE
  Capable of being appointed or constituted.
• STEADINESS
  The quality or state of being steady. Steadiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Constancy; resolution; unchangeableness.
• STEADY
  stedig sterile, barren, stæ, steady , D. stedig, stadig, 1. Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. "The softest, steadiest plume." Keble. Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts
• APPOINTEE
  A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton. (more info) 1. A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives .
• STEADFASTLY
  In a steadfast manner; firmly. Steadfast believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true. Wake.
• 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
• FARMSTEAD
  A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.
• DOORSTEAD
  Entrance or place of a door. Bp. Warburton.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• FARMSTEADING
  A farmstead. Black.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• INSTEAD
  1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii.
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• HOMESTEADER
  One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner.
• LAND OF STEADY HABITS
  Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws of the early period.