Crossword clues for deputing
deputing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depute \De*pute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deputed; p. pr. & vb. n. Deputing.] [F. d['e]puter, fr. L. deputare to esteem, consider, in LL., to destine, allot; de- + putare to clean, prune, clear up, set in order, reckon, think. See Pure.]
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To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. --
Sam. xv.
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Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
--Macaulay.2. To appoint; to assign; to choose. [R.]
The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.
--Barrow.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of depute English)
Usage examples of "deputing".
After the council broke up he was heard outside accosting this and that deputing chief, and speaking in a loud, gratified tone of the Rajah's property being protected in the Rajah's absence.
To the left Brown saw a darkness as though he had been looking at the back of the deputing night.
The white men, deputing with the consent of all the chiefs, were to be allowed to pass down the river.
The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his speciality from his youth, he wisely refrained from deputing the task of tending them at this season to a hireling or a novice.
Breakfast was served on her return in a parlour at the back of the house, and such was the esteem in which she was held in the household that it was Worting’s practice to wait on her himself, instead of deputing this office to the under-butler.