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depository|dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ|
[f. (or on the same type as) med.L. dēpositōrium, f. ppl. stem dēposit- or agent-n. dēpositōr-em: see -ory.]
1. A place or receptacle in which things are deposited or placed for safe keeping; a storehouse, a repository.
1750Beawes Lex Mercat. (1752) 5 Alexandria..the depository of all merchandizes from the East and West. 1840H. Ainsworth Tower of London ii. x, The Jewel Tower..the depository of the Regalia. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xx. 158 The Act..directs that convenient depositories shall be provided..for all such wills..as shall be deposited therein for safe custody.
fig.1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §1. 2 [The Bible] is..a Providential Depository of certain Revelations of truth and duty which have been made at sundry times.
2. A person (a body of persons, or a thing personified) to whom something is committed for safe keeping; usually fig. (with reference to immaterial things); = depositary n. 1.
1656Hammond Answ. to Schism disarmed vii. ii. ⁋3 If we hold these doctrines deposited in the Church..we must hold..that the depository is so trusty, as it cannot deceive us. 1779Johnson Lett. Mrs. Thrale 8 Nov., I think well of her judgment in chusing you to be the depository of her troubles. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. liv. 456 The pretensions advanced..for the Roman Church..to be the sole depository of all moral principles and practice. 1878S. Cox Salv. Mundi viii. (ed. 3) 174 Even in those early days when one man, one family, one nation were successively chosen to be the depositories of Divine Truth. |