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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depend.

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depend +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • How then can the News-Paper replace the Town Crier, when it dependeth on him for its lifeblood?

    Keith Blanchard: Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Why the Town Crier Shall Perish Not, E'en Though the News-Paper Be Heere 2009

  • Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth, when from heaven the Judge descendeth, on whose sentence all dependeth.

    Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009

  • “My happiness dependeth upon thy entering, and be the sin on the neck of me!”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Upon Allah (to whom belong Honour and Glory!) dependeth daily bread!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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