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▪ I. deposit, n.|dɪˈpɒzɪt|
Also 7–9 deposite.
[ad. L. dēpositum, that which is put down, anything deposited or committed for safe keeping, a deposit, n. use of neuter of dēpositus, pa. pple. of dēpōnĕre: see depone, depose.]
1. a. Something laid up in a place, or committed to the charge of a person, for safe keeping. Also fig.
a1660Hammond Wks. II. i. 677 (R.) It seems your church is not so faithful a guardian of her deposit. 1759Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. v. 332 To bring him this precious deposite [the casket containing Q. Mary's letters]. 1806A. Duncan Nelson's Fun. 22 The..barge contained the sacred deposit of the body. 1865Seeley Ecce Homo ii. (ed. 8) 12 He declines to use for his own convenience what he regards as a sacred deposit committed to him for the good of others.
b. spec. A sum of money deposited in a bank usually at interest.
1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. i. vii. 35 No coin or specie..is paid out again, unless in cases of deposites. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 493 The bank of Saint George..had begun to receive deposits and to make loans before Columbus had crossed the Atlantic. 1887Spectator 3 Sept. 1177 The increase of 40 per cent. in Savings-Banks' deposits.
c. Something, usually a sum of money, committed to another person's charge as a pledge for the performance of some contract, in part payment of a thing purchased, etc.
1737Common Sense (1738) I. 151 What is not subject to Chance is foreign to a Lottery; it is a mere useless Deposite. 1766Entick London IV. 262 The conditions of insurance are 2s. per cent. premium, and 10s. deposit on brick houses. 1771Cumberland West Ind. iii. iii, Not..necessary to place a deposit in my hands for so trifling a sum. 1818M. Birkbeck Journ. Amer. 37 With this they may pay the first deposit on farms of eighty or a hundred acres. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law vii. 42 Where the deposit is considerable, and it is probable that the purchase may not be completed for a long time.
2. The state of being deposited or placed in safe keeping; in phr. on, upon († in) deposit.
1624Bacon Consid. war with Spain, They had the other day the Valtoline, and now have put it in deposite. 1701C. Lyttelton in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 220 The king's body is here at the English Benedictines in deposit, there to be kept..till they can have an opportunity to send him to Westminster to be buried. 1866Crump Banking i. 19 No interest being allowed by [the Bank of England] for money that is placed there upon deposit. 1883Times 10 July 4 The sum to be paid into Court, and invested or placed on deposit for the benefit of the infant.
3. Something deposited, laid or thrown down; a mass or layer of matter that has subsided or been precipitated from a fluid medium, or has collected in one place by any natural process.
In Geol., any mass of material deposited by aqueous agency, or precipitated from solution by chemical action. In Mining, an accumulation of ore, esp. of a somewhat casual character, as when occurring in ‘pockets’. In Electro-plating & Electro-typing, the film of metal deposited by galvanic action upon the exposed ground or surface.
1781Cowper Charity 249 The swell of pity..throws the golden sands, A rich deposit, on the bordering lands. 1794Kirwan Min. I. 469 We now recur to the dried deposite. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. vi. 80 Covered with recent deposites of sandstone, clay, and gypsum. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 32 A membrane laden with deposits of fat. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 39 The rich brown deposit of the Nile. Mod. Rich deposits of gold found in South Africa.
4. The act of depositing, laying down, placing in safe keeping, etc.: cf. prec. senses, and various senses of deposit v.
a1773Chesterfield Wks. (1779) IV. App. 50 My solemn deposit of the truth. 1794Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 273 For the deposit of all kinds of..merchandise and effects. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 151 A deposit of white powder soon takes place. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) I. xii. 89 This cemetery or place of deposite for the dead. 1848Wharton Law Lex., Deposit..a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailor without recompence, and to be returned when the bailor shall require it. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot., Depositation or Deposit; is a contract, by which a subject, belonging to one person, is intrusted to the gratuitous custody of another, to be re-delivered on demand.
5. A place where things are deposited or stored; a depository, a depot. (Chiefly U.S.)
1719De Foe Crusoe i. xii. (1840) I. 194 After I had thus secured one part of my little living stock, I went about..searching for another private place, to make such another deposit. 1783J. Huntington in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) IV. 27 A safe deposit where every military article may be kept in good order and repair. 1786T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 61 The advantages of Alexandria, as the principal deposit of the fur trade. 1808A. Parsons Trav. x. 207 It is the great magazine or deposit for the goods which they bring from those parts. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 60 The Church of Santa Croce, the great monumental deposit of Florentine worthies.
6. attrib. and Comb., as deposit account, deposit-house, deposit-money, deposit-warrant (see quots.); (sense 3) deposit bed, deposit gold, deposit mine; deposit-receipt, a receipt for anything deposited, spec. one given by a banker for money deposited with him at a specified rate of interest for a fixed time.
1795Southey Lett. fr. Spain (1808) II. 216 The bodies soon after death are placed in a deposit-house. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. II. 129 The losing party also being obliged, beside the payment of other charges, to restore the deposit-money to his adversary. 1833H. Barnard in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) XIII. 346, I..hired a horse for 50 cents to go down to see the deposite mines, which are spread over the whole country. 1849C. Lanman Lett. from Alleghany Mts. i. 11 Heretofore the gold ore of Lumpkin county has been obtained from what is called the deposit beds. Ibid. 17 The deposit gold is extracted from the gravel by means of a simple machine called a rocker. 1851C. Cist Cincinnati 89 Their average deposit account during that period was about eight hundred thousand dollars. 1866Crump Banking iii. 77 Deposit accounts..are sums placed at stated rates of interest with a bank, for which receipts are given, called deposit receipts. 1893Bithell Counting-house Dict., Deposit Warrant, an acknowledgement, receipt, or certificate showing that certain commodities have been deposited in a certain place for safe keeping, as security for a loan, or some other defined purpose. a1895Mod. The deposit-receipt was returned for re-enfacement.
Add:[1.] d. U.K. Pol. A sum of money legally required to be deposited with the returning officer by a parliamentary candidate upon nomination, and forfeited by any candidate receiving less than a certain percentage of the votes cast.
[1875Act 38 & 39 Vict. c. 84 §3 (6) The balance (if any) of a deposit beyond the amount to which the returning officer is entitled in respect of any candidate shall be repaid to the person or persons by whom the deposit was made.] 1917G. Cave in Parl. Deb. (Commons) 22 May 2141 We..propose that a candidate shall make a deposit, which will be returnable to him if he has not less than one-eighth of the votes. That is intended to prevent mere freak candidates. 1918Act 7 & 8 Geo. V c. 64 §27 If a candidate who has made the required deposit is not elected, and the number of votes polled by him does not exceed..one-eighth of the total number of votes polled..the amount deposited shall be forfeited to His Majesty. 1955Times 9 May 6/1 In 1951 no Liberals ran—they probably needed to convalesce after losing deposits. 1967D. Potter Nigel Barton Plays 124 Well it might even make you lose your deposit. And you have got to get elected somewhere. 1986Ann. Reg. 1985 405 The Representation of the People Act..increased to {pstlg}500 the deposit at parliamentary elections while reducing the forfeiture threshold from one-eighth to one-twentieth of votes cast.
▪ II. deposit, v.|dɪˈpɒzɪt|
Also 7 deposite.
[a. obs. F. depositer ‘to lay downe as a gage..to commit vnto the keeping or trust of’ (Cotgr.); ad. med.L. dēpositāre to deposit, freq. of L. dēpōnĕre, used in med.L. to represent OF. deposer.]
1. trans. To lay, put, or set down; to place in a more or less permanent position of rest.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xii. x, He deposited his reckoning..mounted, and set forwards towards Coventry. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 196 We deposit our person in the stern of a little boat. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 2 At Folkestone we were deposited at a railway station. 1891Law Reports Weekly Notes 120/1 The defendants..damaged the plaintiff's land by depositing thereon dredgings from the river.
b. To lay (eggs).
1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iv, He..observed that no other species were produced, but of such as he saw go in and deposit their eggs there. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 322 She flies to some neighbouring pool, where she deposites her eggs. 1797–1804T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 268 The author could never find the egg of the Cuckoo deposited in any nest but in that of a Lark. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 334 These Insects..deposit in the ground a great number of eggs.
c. Said of the laying down of substances held in solution, and of similar operations wrought by natural agencies: to form as a natural deposit.
1671Grew Anat. Plants i. i. §48 (1682) 10 The greater and grosser part of the Sap may be..deposited into those [leaves]. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 54 The vapours..depositing..a slimy substance mixed with sulphur and salts. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 53 The evaporation of any dew that may have been deposited. Ibid. 143 [The water] deposits more or less of the matter which it holds in suspension.
fig.1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. vii. 302 Society, as it refines, deposits this [grossness] among its other impurities. 1877L. Tollemache in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 855 A myth [may be] deposited from a misunderstood text.
d. intr. To be laid down or precipitated, to settle. rare.[In its origin app. like ‘the house is building’ (for a-building) = ‘being built’.] 1831Brewster Nat. Magic vi. (1833) 155 Moisture might be depositing in a stratum of one density. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. vi. (1873) 109 When the great calcareous formation was depositing beneath the surrounding sea. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts I. 198/2 When no more silver deposits on the copper, the operation is completed.
†2. fig. (trans.) To lay aside, put away, give up; to lay down (one's life, etc.). Obs.
1646J. Temple Irish Rebell. 14 Animosities..seemed now to be quite deposited and buried in a firm conglutination of their affections. 1682Address from Barnstaple in Lond. Gaz. No. 1712/4 We are so far from any thought of..impairing..the Grandeur of this..Monarchy, that we will rather deposite our Lives in aggrandizing it. 1749Fielding Tom Jones i. x, Though..his countenance, as well as his air and voice, had much of roughness in it, yet he could at any time deposite this, and appear all gentleness and good-humour. 1804Miniature No. 21 ⁋3 When stripped of the buskin, he necessarily deposits his dignity.
3. To place in some repository, to commit to the charge of any one, for safe keeping; spec. to place (money) in a bank at interest.
1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 277 [He] had..deposited his wife in the hands of that most vertuous Princesse, the Cardinall Infanta. 1735Berkeley Querist §44 The silver supposed to be deposited in the bank. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 365 Into this island, in times of danger, the inhabitants deposited their most valuable effects, to secure them from plunder. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 190 The Egyptian stone relic deposited in the British Museum. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxiii, Fred had taken the wise step of depositing the eighty pounds with his mother.
b. To place in the hands of another as a pledge for the performance of some contract, in part payment of a purchase, etc.
1624Massinger Parl. Love ii. i, Let us to a notary, Draw the conditions, see the crowns deposited. 1687in Scott Peveril xi. note, Euery person that puts in either horse, mair, or gelding, shall..depositt the sume of fiue shill. apiece. 1714Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. to W. Montagu (1887) I. 89 The best way, to deposit a certain sum in some friend's hands, and buy some little Cornish borough. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) II. 70 In making agreement for hire of cattle the money was required to be deposited.
c. fig.
1634‘E. Knott’ Charity Maintained ii. §24 The Apostles have..deposited in her [the Church], as in a rich storehouse, all things belonging to truth. 1671Milton Samson 429 To violate the sacred trust of silence Deposited within thee. 1739Butler Serm. Matt. xxiv. 14 Christianity is..a trust, deposited with us in behalf of others..as well as for our own instruction. 1837J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (ed. 3) I. ix. 136 You will be depositing your good feelings into your heart, and they will spring up into fruit.
†d. To commit, entrust (to a person). Obs. rare.
1733Swift Advice Freemen Dublin, Some employments are still deposited to persons born here.
4. absol. To make or pay a deposit. rare.
1799Piece of Fam. Biog. III. 102 He bid, 'twas knock'd down to him, he deposited, and it was sent home.
Hence deˈposited ppl. a., deˈpositing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1667Decay Chr. Piety xix. ⁋3 The greater difficulty will be, to perswade the depositing of those lusts. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxiv. 285 That deposited Box. 1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. xiv. 301 The transporting and depositing agents. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 420 Based upon a deposited substratum of rock. c1865G. Gore in Circ. Sc. I. 215/2 The depositing vessels [in electro-plating] are made of various materials.
▪ III. deposit
obs. Sc. form of deposed (depose v.). |