What is "depositories"

Usage examples of "depositories".

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

The French members of the Legislature, being the majority in both Houses, lately passed an act declaring that the civil, or French laws, should be the laws of their land, and enumerated about 50 folio volumes, in Latin, as the depositories of these laws.

Dictionaries are but the depositories of words already legitimated by usage.

Things were looking up, thought Sam as he scrutinized the finished product, replete with its blank lines for investors, depositories, amounts.

There are twelve publicly known Depositories, each having books and records pertaining to a par­ticular subject, or to related subjects.

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the Guardian of the Public Weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern.

The committee proposed "that the system of using certain banks as United States depositories be abolished, and in place of said system, establish in every county in each of the States that offers for sale during the one year $500,000 worth of farm products--including wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, rice, tobacco, cotton, wool, and sugar, all together--a sub-treasury office.

I tell you, books are the depositories of the human spirit, which is the only thing in this world that endures.