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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deputy \Dep"u*ty\, n.; pl {Deputies}. [F. d['e]put['e], fr LL deputatus See {Depute}.] 1. One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king. --1 Kings xxii. 47. God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight. --Shak. Note: Deputy is used in combination with the names of various executive officers, to denote an assistant empowered to act in their name as deputy collector, deputy marshal, deputy sheriff. 2. A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France] {Chamber of Deputies}, one of the two branches of the French legislative assembly; -- formerly called {Corps L['e]gislatif}. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts. Syn: Substitute; representative; legate; delegate; envoy; agent; factor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: deputy adj : acting as substitute for another [syn: {deputy(a)}, {proxy(a)}] n 1: someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies [syn: {deputy sheriff}] 2: an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent [syn: {lieutenant}] 3: a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France) 4: a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others [syn: {surrogate}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Deputy, IN Zip code(s): 47230 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Deputy in 1 Kings 22:47, means a prefect; one set over others The same Hebrew word is rendered "officer;" i.e., chief of the commissariat appointed by Solomon (1 Kings 4:5, etc.). In Esther 8:9; 9:3 (R.V., "governor") it denotes a Persian prefect "on this side" i.e., in the region west of the Euphrates. It is the modern word _pasha_. In Acts 13:7, 8, 12; 18:12, it denotes a proconsul; i.e., the governor of a Roman province holding his appointment from the senate. The Roman provinces were of two kinds, (1) senatorial and (2) imperial. The appointment of a governor to the former was in the hands of the senate, and he bore the title of proconsul (Gr. anthupatos). The appointment of a governor to the latter was in the hands of the emperor, and he bore the title of propraetor (Gr. antistrategos). From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay But now the time demands, at last That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom
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