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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



... 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 ...
— The Federalist Papers
... in its government no more wisdom or virtue than he possessed, or at least no more than he could appreciate. And under his government France was made responsible for many deeds that the nation would never have sanctioned, if it bad been recognized as the depositary of the national sovereignty, or as the French state, and answerable to God for the use it made of political power, or the conduct ...
— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson
... companies? you ask. Some are owned jointly by the three great insurance corporations and their directors, others by the directors alone. The men who control the Big Three organize these flexible depositary institutions, allotting half or more of their stocks to themselves, the balance to the insurance companies, or keeping all the stock themselves, for the purpose of manipulating the stupendous sums in the treasuries of the insurance companies. ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... just, fair depositary of your adopted uncle's secrets. Your descriptions of character are admirable, refined in their conception, and bold in their execution—very bold indeed. This last specimen shall remain engraved in my ...
— Ellen Middleton--A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... deposit money with a third, one a single manah and the other two hundred, and both afterward appear and claim the larger sum, the depositary should give each depositor one manah only, and leave the rest undivided till the ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various


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