单词 | depositary |
释义 | depositaryn. 1. A person with whom anything is lodged in trust; a trustee; one to whom anything (material or immaterial) is committed or confided. In Law, a bailee of personal property, to be kept by him for the bailor without recompense. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > one to whom a thing is entrusted repository1592 depositor1604 depositary1608 depository1656 depositee1676 reposure1682 consignatarya1685 custodee1739 a person of confidence1777 repositary1866 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 410 I gaue you all..Made you my guardians, my depositaries. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 495. ¶10 They [sc. Jews]..are the Depositaries of these..Prophecies. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Ded. p. ii I am the sole depositary of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders Introd. p. xvii The Evangelists and Apostles are still enthroned as the depositaries of truth. 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xix. 49 I have never been the depositary of her plans and secrets. 1864 W. H. Ainsworth John Law I. i. iv. 202 Voisin was induced..to deliver up the codicil to the king's will, of which he was the depositary. 2. A place or receptacle in which something is deposited; = depository n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored aumbry1356 promptuary?a1425 repository1485 staple1523 magazine1583 reposement1592 repertory1593 rendezvous1608 reserve1612 conservatory1624 reconditory1633 dormerc1640 stowagea1641 depositum1646 repositary1650 magazine storehousea1654 deposit1719 reservoir1739 battery1748 depository1750 storage1775 depot1795 depositary1797 repertorium1797 rua1831 stowaway1913 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. v. 31 Books are the depositary of every thing that is most honourable to man. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) §466 The ocean then is the great depositary of everything that water can dissolve and carry down from the surface of the continents. 1871 W. H. Ainsworth Tower Hill ii. x Used..as a depositary for State records. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021). depositaryadj. rare. 1. Geology. Belonging to or of the nature of a deposit. [Cf. sedimentary adj. ] ΚΠ 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xx. 259 Before the beds entirely recover their natural depositary characters. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxv. 468 The other trap rocks of this district, instead of having a depositary character, have all been intruded. 2. Receiving deposits: said of a bank. ΚΠ 1886 Rept. Sec. of Treasury 88 (Cent. Dict.) A number of failures have taken place among the depositary banks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1608adj.1839 |
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