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depositary


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Depositary  \De*pos"i*ta*ry\,  n.;  pl  {Depositaries}.  [L. 
  depositarius,  fr  deponere  See  {Deposit}.] 
  1.  One  with  whom  anything  is  lodged  in  the  trust;  one  who 
  receives  a  deposit;  --  the  correlative  of  depositor. 
 
  I  .  .  .  made  you  my  guardians,  my  depositaries. 
  --Shak. 
 
  The  depositaries  of  power,  who  are  mere  delegates  of 
  the  people.  --J.  S.  Mill. 
 
  2.  A  storehouse;  a  depository.  --Bp.  Hurd. 
 
  3.  (Law)  One  to  whom  goods  are  bailed,  to  be  kept  for  the 
  bailor  without  a  recompense.  --Kent.