depute

See also: députe and député

English

depute (third-person singular simple present deputes, present participle deputing, simple past and past participle deputed)

(obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 229:
  Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.
To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Samuel 15:3:
  
  There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
- 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:
  Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
- 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian‎:
  Viewing the forces arrayed against him at the G20, President Vladimir Putin deputed Lavrov to attend the two-day event in his stead, and for a brief moment it appeared to have been too much.
To appoint; to assign; to choose.
- c. 1675, Isaac Barrow, The Duty of Thanksgiving
  The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.

depute (plural deputes)

depute

inflection of deputar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

depute

inflection of deputar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

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