depositumn.
/dɪˈpɒzɪtəm/ Obsolete.
1. Something placed in a person's charge or laid up in a place for safe keeping; = deposit n. 1.
a. literal.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > person or thing in another's care > something in safe-keeping
depostc1384
deposition1592
depositum1592
deposita1660
depot1835
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > depositing money > a deposit of money
deposit1753
depositum1756
deposition1817
time deposit1846
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §16 B The thing left is called Receptum, Commendatum or depositum.
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. 81 Two depositums of like nature.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. 272 She..had foretold of a certain Depositum, that was to be reserved in that place; and the event following declared her meaning concerning her Body.
1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. §1 ⁋2. 57 Testaments and other depositums of the greatest trust were usually committed to their custody.
1756 A. Butler Lives Saints II. 195 She was to give to God an account of the least farthing of what was entrusted as a depositum in her hands.
b. figurative of immaterial things: esp. of the faith or doctrine committed to the keeping of the Church.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > entrusted by God
depositum1582
1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Tim. vi. 20 O Timothee, keepe the depositum [L. custodi depositum].
1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. xxi. 569 Affected novelties of terms, such as neither English nor Christian ears ever heard in the English tongue: Scandal, prepuce, neophyte, depositum, gratis, parasceve, paraclete.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman To Rdr. sig. B3v Into whose hands the great depositum of Truth is put.
1656 H. Hammond Disarmers Dexterities Examined vii. 241 That depositum..that the Apostles thus deposited in all Churches, the several articles of the Apostolick faith or Creed.
a1711 T. Ken Ded. in Wks. (1721) I. sig. A8 And rather dye glad Martyrs at the Stake, Than the Depositum he left, forsake.
1732 T. Stackhouse New Hist. Bible (1767) III. v. iii. 348 His life was a sacred depositum of God's.
2. Something given as a pledge; = deposit n. 1c.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Depositum, a pledge.
1711 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 704 To pay down..half of that as a depositum for the remaining parts.
3. A place where things are deposited or stored; a depot, depository, ‘storehouse’ (literal and figurative).
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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
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 78 It is a fit depositum of knowledge.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 221 By means of these famous fairs, Leipsic is the depositum of a great part of the merchandize of Europe and the Indies.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. iv The..most complete depositum of facts relating to the history of America, to be found in the United States.
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