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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
depute .
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Examples
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Les elections ne ce sont pas passees d'une maniere convenable et certains prefets, deputes ont intimider la population de voter leur maitre Sassou.
Global Voices in English » Congo Brazzaville: Disappointment at Presidential election 2009
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I don't think there should be any deputes in Florida.
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Jail actually didn't get a whole lot of water in it, which was sort of surprising to some of the deputes that we've been talking to.
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The general, at length opening his eyes to the fault which he had committed, deputes the principal officers of his army to the incensed hero, with commission to make compensation for the injury, and to tender magnificent presents.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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To this, I reply, the people shall be judge; for who shall be judge whether the trustee or deputy acts with and according to the trust that is reposed in him, but he who deputes him, and must, by having deputed him, have still a power to discard him when he fails in his trust.
A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father William Cooper
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Their defence is, that they are insulted and overpowered if they attend the popular meetings, and by electing _ "les gueux et les scelerats pour deputes," _* they send them to
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Unluckily however, the Vidhushaka, whilst setting her swing in motion, has tumbled her out of it and the fall has sprained her ankle, so that she cannot perform the ceremony herself: she therefore deputes Malavika to do it for her, who accordingly comes to the spot attired in royal habiliments, and accompanied by her friend Vakulavali.
Tales from the Hindu Dramatists R. N. Dutta
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Their defence is, that they are insulted and overpowered if they attend the popular meetings, and by electing _ "les gueux et les scelerats pour deputes," _* they send them to
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When He specially deputes us to kill for Him, we are as innocent in the agency, notwithstanding the general law, "thou shalt not kill," as is the earthquake or thunderbolt, when commissioned to destroy.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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The Palatine, or any of the Lords Proprietors, shall have power under hand and seal, to be registered in the grand council, to make a deputy, who shall have the same power to all intents and purposes as he himself who deputes him; except in confirming acts of parliament, as in
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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