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单词 depositary
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depositaryn.

/dɪˈpɒzɪtəri/
Etymology: < Latin dēpositārius one who receives or makes a deposit, French dépositaire (14–15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter); < Latin dēposit- participial stem of dēpōnere (depone v., depose n.): see -ary suffix1. Often confounded with depository n., when that is used of a person, or this of a thing.
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.
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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.
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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.

Etymology: < deposit n. + -ary suffix1.
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.
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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).
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