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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
depend .
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Examples
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How then can the News-Paper replace the Town Crier, when it dependeth on him for its lifeblood?
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Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth, when from heaven the Judge descendeth, on whose sentence all dependeth.
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“My happiness dependeth upon thy entering, and be the sin on the neck of me!”
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Upon Allah (to whom belong Honour and Glory!) dependeth daily bread!
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So that the right of colonies, saving honour and league with their metropolis, dependeth wholly on their license, or letters, by which their sovereign authorized them to plant.
Leviathan 2007
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Concourse of people is an irregular system, the lawfulness or unlawfulness whereof dependeth on the occasion, and on the number of them that are assembled.
Leviathan 2007
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For first, all truth of doctrine dependeth either upon reason or upon Scripture; both which give credit to many, but never receive it from any writer.
Leviathan 2007
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For in the condition of mere nature, where there are no matrimonial laws, it cannot be known who is the father unless it be declared by the mother; and therefore the right of dominion over the child dependeth on her will, and is consequently hers.
Leviathan 2007
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And for the study of philosophy it hath no otherwise place than as a handmaid to the Roman religion: and since the authority of Aristotle is only current there, that study is not properly philosophy (the nature whereof dependeth not on authors), but Aristotelity.
Leviathan 2007
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For it is a thing that dependeth on nature, but on the scope of the writer, and is subservient to every man's proper method.
Leviathan 2007
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