depositn.

/dɪˈpɒzɪt/

Forms: Also 1600s–1800s deposite.

Etymology: < Latin dēpositum, that which is put down, anything deposited or committed for safe keeping, a deposit, noun use of neuter of dēpositus , past participle of dēpōnĕre : see depone v., depose n.

a. Something laid up in a place, or committed to the charge of a person, for safe keeping. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > person or thing in another's care > something in safe-keeping

depostc1384

deposition1592

depositum1592

deposita1660

depot1835

a1660 H. Hammond Wks. (1684) II. i. 677 (R.) It seems your church is not so faithful a guardian of her deposit.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. v. 332 To bring him this precious deposite [the casket containing Q. Mary's letters].

1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 22 The..barge contained the sacred deposit of the body.

1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (ed. 8) ii. 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > depositing money > a deposit of money

deposit1753

depositum1756

deposition1817

time deposit1846

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank-account > bank-deposit

deposit1753

bank deposit1807

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlvi. 306 No coin or specie..is paid out again, unless in cases of deposites.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 493 The bank of Saint George..had begun to receive deposits and to make loans before Columbus had crossed the Atlantic.

1887 Spectator 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > payment by instalment or part-payment > an instalment > earnest money

earnest money1349

earnest1424

earnest penny1454

arles1487

bargain-penny1490

handsel1569

impress-money1617

depositum1623

fasting penny1650

deposit1737

arrha1754

handsale1766

fastening penny1811

sign-on1922

1737 Common Sense (1738) I. 151 What is not subject to Chance is foreign to a Lottery; it is a mere useless Deposite.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 262 The conditions of insurance are 2s. per cent. premium, and 10s. deposit on brick houses.

1771 R. Cumberland West Indian iii. iii Not..necessary to place a deposit in my hands for so trifling a sum.

1818 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. 37 With this they may pay the first deposit on farms of eighty or a hundred acres.

1858 Ld. 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 on, upon (†in) deposit.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > storage > in store [phrase] > placed in safe-keeping

on, upon (in) deposit1624

1624 F. Bacon Considerations War with Spain They had the other day the Valtoline, and now have put it in deposite.

1701 C. Lyttelton in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. 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.

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 19 No interest being allowed by [the Bank of England] for money that is placed there upon deposit.

1883 Times 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 Geology, 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 Electroplating and Electrotyping, the film of metal deposited by galvanic action upon the exposed ground or surface.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid

drega1300

groundsa1340

upon the lee1390

foundersc1450

residence1539

sediment1547

resident1558

precipitate1594

settling1594

precipitation1605

crassament1615

subsistence1622

subsidence1646

sedimen1655

crassamentum1657

deposit1781

sludge1839

ppt1864

1781 W. Cowper Charity 249 The swell of pity..throws the golden sands, A rich deposit, on the bordering lands.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 469 We now recur to the dried deposite.

1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt vi. 80 Covered with recent deposites of sandstone, clay, and gypsum.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 32 A membrane laden with deposits of fat.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 39 The rich brown deposit of the Nile.

1895 N.E.D. at Deposit Mod. Rich deposits of gold found in South Africa.

4. The act of depositing, laying down, placing in safe keeping, etc.: cf. preceding senses, and various senses of deposit v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > placing in safe-keeping

deposition1592

depositation1622

deposita1773

depositure1884

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > testimony or statement of witness > on oath

saying1443

depositiona1513

deposita1773

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid > fact of depositing

precipitationa1550

precipitating1639

depot1794

deposition1799

depositation1806

deposit1823

a1773 Ld. Chesterfield Wks. (1779) IV. App. 50 My solemn deposit of the truth.

1794 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 273 For the deposit of all kinds of..merchandise and effects.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 151 A deposit of white powder soon takes place.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xii. 89 This cemetery, or place of deposite for the dead.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 176/2 Deposit..a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailor without recompence, and to be returned when the bailor shall require it.

1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 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.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored

aumbry1356

promptuary?a1425

repository1485

staple1523

magazine1583

reposement1592

repertory1593

rendezvous1608

reserve1612

conservatory1624

reconditory1633

dormerc1640

stowagea1641

depositum1646

repositary1650

magazine storehousea1654

deposit1719

reservoir1739

battery1748

depository1750

storage1775

depot1795

depositary1797

repertorium1797

rua1831

stowaway1913

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 194 After I had thus secur'd one Part of my little living Stock, I went about..searching for another private Place, to make such another Deposit.

1783 J. Huntington in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 27 A safe deposit where every military article may be kept in good order and repair.

a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) x. 207 It is the great magazine or deposit for the goods which they bring from those parts.

1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 61 The advantages of Alexandria, as the principal deposit of the fur trade.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 60 The Church of Santa Croce, the great monumental deposit of Florentine worthies.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as deposit account, deposit-house, deposit-money, deposit-warrant (see quots.); (sense 3) deposit bed, deposit gold, deposit mine.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > storehouse

houseOE

storehouse1348

penuary1607

store1667

deposit-house1797

supply house1864

garnerage1880

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank-account

account1615

bank account1671

a/c1736

drawing account1737

private account1772

banking account1792

embankment1813

current account1846

savings account1850

deposit account1851

checking account1923

demand deposit1930

ghost account1933

numbered account1963

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts

calends of exchangec1374

scorea1400

pipe1455

mensalc1475

profit and loss1553

stock1588

bank account1671

lump-account1699

revenue account1703

profit and loss account1721

sundry1736

drawing account1737

stock account?1768

private account1772

trading account1780

Flemish account1785

capital account1813

embankment1813

cost account1817

cash-credit1832

current account1846

savings account1850

deposit account1851

suspense account1869

control account1908

checking account1923

ghost account1933

numbered account1963

budget account1969

ISA1975

MSA1993

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxix. 532 The bodies soon after death are placed in a deposit-house.

1822 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 129 (note) The losing party also being obliged, beside the payment of other charges, to restore the deposit-money to his adversary.

1833 H. Barnard in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) 13 346 I..hired a horse for 50 cents to go down to see the deposite mines, which are spread over the whole country.

1849 C. Lanman Lett. Alleghany Mts. i. 11 Heretofore the gold ore of Lumpkin county has been obtained from what is called the deposit beds.

1849 C. Lanman Lett. Alleghany Mts. i. 17 The deposit gold is extracted from the gravel by means of a simple machine called a rocker.

1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 89 Their average deposit account during that period was about eight hundred thousand dollars.

1893 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. (rev. ed.) 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.

C2.

deposit receipt n. 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.

ΚΠ

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iii. 77 Deposit accounts..are sums placed at stated rates of interest with a bank, for which receipts are given, called deposit receipts.

a1895 Mod. The deposit-receipt was returned for re-enfacement.

Draft additions 1993

U.K. Politics. 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > sum deposited by parliamentary candidate

deposit1917

1875 Act 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.]

1917 G. Cave in Hansard 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.

1918 Act 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.

1955 Times 9 May 6/1 In 1951 no Liberals ran—they probably needed to convalesce after losing deposits.

1967 D. Potter Nigel Barton Plays 124 Well it might even make you lose your deposit. And you have got to get elected somewhere.

1986 Ann. Reg. 1985 405 The Representation of the People Act..increased to £500 the deposit at parliamentary elections while reducing the forfeiture threshold from one-eighth to one-twentieth of votes cast.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

depositv.

/dɪˈpɒzɪt/

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s deposite.

Etymology: < obsolete French depositer ‘to lay downe as a gage..to commit vnto the keeping or trust of’ (Cotgrave); < medieval Latin dēpositāre to deposit, frequentative of Latin dēpōnĕre, used in medieval Latin to represent Old French deposer.

a. transitive. To lay, put, or set down; to place in a more or less permanent position of rest.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > put or lay down

allayOE

seta1000

to lay downc1275

to put downa1382

to set downa1400

deposec1420

to sit down1600

depositate1618

deposit1749

ground1751

plank1859

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. x. 271 He deposited his Reckoning..mounted, and set forwards towards Coventry.

1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 196 We deposit our person in the stern of a little boat.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 4 At Folkestone, we were deposited at a railway-station.

1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 27 June 120/1 The defendants..damaged the plaintiff's land by depositing thereon dredgings from the river.

b. To lay (eggs).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > lay (eggs)

layc1000

warpa1340

cast1587

spawna1616

spawna1617

deposit1692

oviposit1847

spit1847

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 29 He..observed, that no other Species were produced, but of such as he saw go in and..deposit their Eggs there.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 322 She flies to some neighbouring pool, where she deposites her eggs.

1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 105 The Cuckoo contrives to deposit her egg among the rest, leaving the future care of it entirely to the Hedge-sparrow.

1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > solid rather than fluid [verb (transitive)] > deposit (sediment)

precipitate1644

deposit1672

throw1731

depose1759

depositate1782

sediment1859

vacuum-deposit1982

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 35 The greater and grosser part of the Sap may be..deposited into those [leaves].

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 54 The vapours..depositing..a slimy substance mixed with sulphur and salts.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 53 The evaporation of any dew that may have been deposited.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 143 [The water] deposits more or less of the matter which it holds in suspension.

figurative.1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. vii. 302 Society, as it refines, deposits this [grossness] among its other impurities.1877 L. Tollemache in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 855 A myth [may be] deposited from a misunderstood text.

d. intransitive. To be laid down or precipitated, to settle. rare.[In its origin apparently like ‘the house is building’ (for a-building) = ‘being built’.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > solid rather than fluid [verb (intransitive)] > sink to the bottom as sediment

settlec1420

precipitatea1626

deposit1832

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic vi. 155 Moisture might be depositing in a stratum of one density.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vi. 127 When the great calcareous formation was depositing beneath the surrounding sea.

1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts I. 198/2 When no more silver deposits on the copper, the operation is completed.

†2. figurative (transitive) To lay aside, put away, give up; to lay down (one's life, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)]

to let awaya1000

forcast?c1225

to lay downc1275

forthrow1340

flita1375

removea1382

to cast away1382

understrewc1384

castc1390

to lay awaya1400

to lay asidec1440

slingc1440

warpiss1444

to lay from, offc1480

way-put1496

depose1526

to lay apart1526

to put off1526

to set apart1530

to turn up1541

abandonate?1561

devest1566

dispatch1569

decarta1572

discard1578

to make away1580

to fling away1587

to cast off1597

doff1599

cashier1603

to set by1603

moult1604

excuss1607

retorta1616

divest1639

deposit1646

disentail1667

dismiss1675

slough1845

shed1856

jettison1869

shake1872

offload1900

junk1911

dump1919

sluff1934

bin1940

to put down1944

shitcan1973

1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. 14 Animosities..seemed now to be quite deposited and buried in a firm conglutination of their affections.

1682 Address from Barnstaple in London 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.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. x. 56 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.

1804 Miniature No. 21. ⁋3 When stripped of the buskin, he necessarily deposits his dignity.

a. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > for safe-keeping

depose1583

depositate1618

dispositate1650

deposit1659

dispose1662

safety-deposit1891

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > deposit (money)

to pay in1623

deposit1735

bank1792

1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. xv. 277 [He] had..deposited his wife in the hands of that most vertuous Princesse, the Cardinall Infanta.

1735 G. Berkeley Querist §44 The silver supposed to be deposited in the bank.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 365 Into this island, in times of danger, the inhabitants deposited their most valuable effects, to secure them from plunder.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 190 The Egyptian stone relic deposited in the British Museum.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxiii. 14 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > lay down money

to lay down1560

lay1572

to tell down1600

consign1633

deposita1640

post1821

the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > pledge or deposit as security [verb (transitive)]

setc1000

plight?c1225

lay1297

wagec1330

to lay to borrowc1405

pledgea1475

impledge1548

pawn1570

impawn1598

deposita1640

a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. i. 83 Lett vs to a notarie, Draw the conditions, see the crownes deposited.

1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c23 Oct. (1965) I. 232 It will be the best way to deposite a certain Sumn in some freind's hands, and buy some little Cornish Burrough.

1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 70 In making agreement for hire of cattle the money was required to be deposited.

1831 in W. Scott Peveril (new ed.) I. xi. 210 (note) Euery person that puts in either horse, mair, or gelding, shall..depositt the sume of fiue shill. apiece.

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

1634 M. Wilson Mercy & Truth i. ii. 71 The Apostles haue..deposited in her [the Church], as in a rich Storehowse, all things belonging to truth.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 429 To violate the sacred trust of silence Deposited within thee.

1739 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before Soc. Propagation of Gospel 12 Christianity is..a Trust, deposited with us in Behalf of Others..as well as for our own Instruction.

1837 J. H. Newman Parochial 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). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > hand over to another > for custody

consign1528

entrusta1586

deposit1733

1733 J. Swift Advice to Freemen Dublin Some employments are still deposited to persons born here.

4. absol. To make or pay a deposit. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay a deposit or part-payment

deposit1799

1799 Piece of Fam. Biog. III. 102 He bid, 'twas knock'd down to him, he deposited, and it was sent home.

Derivatives

deˈposited adj.

ΚΠ

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiv. 285 That deposited Box.

1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 420 Based upon a deposited substratum of rock.

deˈpositing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun]

everting1568

deposition1577

discarding1600

excussion1607

dispatch1608

reposition1617

absolution1655

depositing1667

discardment1713

discardurea1762

cashiering1826

dropping1859

discard1906

junking1911

shedding1945

load-shedding1947

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xix. 411 The greater difficulty will be, to perswade the depositing of those lusts.

1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone xiv. 301 The transporting and depositing agents.

c1865 G. Gore in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 215/2 The depositing vessels [in electro-plating] are made of various materials.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	deposit
释义	depositn. /dɪˈpɒzɪt/ Forms: Also 1600s–1800s deposite. Etymology: < Latin dēpositum, that which is put down, anything deposited or committed for safe keeping, a deposit, noun use of neuter of dēpositus , past participle of dēpōnĕre : see depone v., depose n. 1. a. Something laid up in a place, or committed to the charge of a person, for safe keeping. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > person or thing in another's care > something in safe-keeping depostc1384 deposition1592 depositum1592 deposita1660 depot1835 a1660 H. Hammond Wks. (1684) II. i. 677 (R.) It seems your church is not so faithful a guardian of her deposit. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. v. 332 To bring him this precious deposite [the casket containing Q. Mary's letters]. 1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 22 The..barge contained the sacred deposit of the body. 1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (ed. 8) ii. 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. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > depositing money > a deposit of money deposit1753 depositum1756 deposition1817 time deposit1846 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank-account > bank-deposit deposit1753 bank deposit1807 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlvi. 306 No coin or specie..is paid out again, unless in cases of deposites. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 493 The bank of Saint George..had begun to receive deposits and to make loans before Columbus had crossed the Atlantic. 1887 Spectator 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. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > payment by instalment or part-payment > an instalment > earnest money earnest money1349 earnest1424 earnest penny1454 arles1487 bargain-penny1490 handsel1569 impress-money1617 depositum1623 fasting penny1650 deposit1737 arrha1754 handsale1766 fastening penny1811 sign-on1922 1737 Common Sense (1738) I. 151 What is not subject to Chance is foreign to a Lottery; it is a mere useless Deposite. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 262 The conditions of insurance are 2s. per cent. premium, and 10s. deposit on brick houses. 1771 R. Cumberland West Indian iii. iii Not..necessary to place a deposit in my hands for so trifling a sum. 1818 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. 37 With this they may pay the first deposit on farms of eighty or a hundred acres. 1858 Ld. 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 on, upon (†in) deposit. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > in store [phrase] > placed in safe-keeping on, upon (in) deposit1624 1624 F. Bacon Considerations War with Spain They had the other day the Valtoline, and now have put it in deposite. 1701 C. Lyttelton in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. 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. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 19 No interest being allowed by [the Bank of England] for money that is placed there upon deposit. 1883 Times 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 Geology, 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 Electroplating and Electrotyping, the film of metal deposited by galvanic action upon the exposed ground or surface. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid drega1300 groundsa1340 upon the lee1390 foundersc1450 residence1539 sediment1547 resident1558 precipitate1594 settling1594 precipitation1605 crassament1615 subsistence1622 subsidence1646 sedimen1655 crassamentum1657 deposit1781 sludge1839 ppt1864 1781 W. Cowper Charity 249 The swell of pity..throws the golden sands, A rich deposit, on the bordering lands. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 469 We now recur to the dried deposite. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt vi. 80 Covered with recent deposites of sandstone, clay, and gypsum. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 32 A membrane laden with deposits of fat. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 39 The rich brown deposit of the Nile. 1895 N.E.D. at Deposit Mod. Rich deposits of gold found in South Africa. 4. The act of depositing, laying down, placing in safe keeping, etc.: cf. preceding senses, and various senses of deposit v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > placing in safe-keeping deposition1592 depositation1622 deposita1773 depositure1884 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > testimony or statement of witness > on oath saying1443 depositiona1513 deposita1773 the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid > fact of depositing precipitationa1550 precipitating1639 depot1794 deposition1799 depositation1806 deposit1823 a1773 Ld. Chesterfield Wks. (1779) IV. App. 50 My solemn deposit of the truth. 1794 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 273 For the deposit of all kinds of..merchandise and effects. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 151 A deposit of white powder soon takes place. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xii. 89 This cemetery, or place of deposite for the dead. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 176/2 Deposit..a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailor without recompence, and to be returned when the bailor shall require it. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 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.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored aumbry1356 promptuary?a1425 repository1485 staple1523 magazine1583 reposement1592 repertory1593 rendezvous1608 reserve1612 conservatory1624 reconditory1633 dormerc1640 stowagea1641 depositum1646 repositary1650 magazine storehousea1654 deposit1719 reservoir1739 battery1748 depository1750 storage1775 depot1795 depositary1797 repertorium1797 rua1831 stowaway1913 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 194 After I had thus secur'd one Part of my little living Stock, I went about..searching for another private Place, to make such another Deposit. 1783 J. Huntington in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 27 A safe deposit where every military article may be kept in good order and repair. a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) x. 207 It is the great magazine or deposit for the goods which they bring from those parts. 1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 61 The advantages of Alexandria, as the principal deposit of the fur trade. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 60 The Church of Santa Croce, the great monumental deposit of Florentine worthies. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as deposit account, deposit-house, deposit-money, deposit-warrant (see quots.); (sense 3) deposit bed, deposit gold, deposit mine. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > storehouse houseOE storehouse1348 penuary1607 store1667 deposit-house1797 supply house1864 garnerage1880 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank-account account1615 bank account1671 a/c1736 drawing account1737 private account1772 banking account1792 embankment1813 current account1846 savings account1850 deposit account1851 checking account1923 demand deposit1930 ghost account1933 numbered account1963 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts calends of exchangec1374 scorea1400 pipe1455 mensalc1475 profit and loss1553 stock1588 bank account1671 lump-account1699 revenue account1703 profit and loss account1721 sundry1736 drawing account1737 stock account?1768 private account1772 trading account1780 Flemish account1785 capital account1813 embankment1813 cost account1817 cash-credit1832 current account1846 savings account1850 deposit account1851 suspense account1869 control account1908 checking account1923 ghost account1933 numbered account1963 budget account1969 ISA1975 MSA1993 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxix. 532 The bodies soon after death are placed in a deposit-house. 1822 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 129 (note) The losing party also being obliged, beside the payment of other charges, to restore the deposit-money to his adversary. 1833 H. Barnard in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) 13 346 I..hired a horse for 50 cents to go down to see the deposite mines, which are spread over the whole country. 1849 C. Lanman Lett. Alleghany Mts. i. 11 Heretofore the gold ore of Lumpkin county has been obtained from what is called the deposit beds. 1849 C. Lanman Lett. Alleghany Mts. i. 17 The deposit gold is extracted from the gravel by means of a simple machine called a rocker. 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 89 Their average deposit account during that period was about eight hundred thousand dollars. 1893 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. (rev. ed.) 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. C2. deposit receipt n. 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. ΚΠ 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iii. 77 Deposit accounts..are sums placed at stated rates of interest with a bank, for which receipts are given, called deposit receipts. a1895 Mod. The deposit-receipt was returned for re-enfacement. Draft additions 1993 U.K. Politics. 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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > sum deposited by parliamentary candidate deposit1917 1875 Act 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.] 1917 G. Cave in Hansard 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. 1918 Act 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. 1955 Times 9 May 6/1 In 1951 no Liberals ran—they probably needed to convalesce after losing deposits. 1967 D. Potter Nigel Barton Plays 124 Well it might even make you lose your deposit. And you have got to get elected somewhere. 1986 Ann. Reg. 1985 405 The Representation of the People Act..increased to £500 the deposit at parliamentary elections while reducing the forfeiture threshold from one-eighth to one-twentieth of votes cast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). depositv. /dɪˈpɒzɪt/ Forms: Also 1600s–1700s deposite. Etymology: < obsolete French depositer ‘to lay downe as a gage..to commit vnto the keeping or trust of’ (Cotgrave); < medieval Latin dēpositāre to deposit, frequentative of Latin dēpōnĕre, used in medieval Latin to represent Old French deposer. 1. a. transitive. To lay, put, or set down; to place in a more or less permanent position of rest. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > put or lay down allayOE seta1000 to lay downc1275 to put downa1382 to set downa1400 deposec1420 to sit down1600 depositate1618 deposit1749 ground1751 plank1859 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. x. 271 He deposited his Reckoning..mounted, and set forwards towards Coventry. View more context for this quotation 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 196 We deposit our person in the stern of a little boat. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 4 At Folkestone, we were deposited at a railway-station. 1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 27 June 120/1 The defendants..damaged the plaintiff's land by depositing thereon dredgings from the river. b. To lay (eggs). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > lay (eggs) layc1000 warpa1340 cast1587 spawna1616 spawna1617 deposit1692 oviposit1847 spit1847 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 29 He..observed, that no other Species were produced, but of such as he saw go in and..deposit their Eggs there. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 322 She flies to some neighbouring pool, where she deposites her eggs. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 105 The Cuckoo contrives to deposit her egg among the rest, leaving the future care of it entirely to the Hedge-sparrow. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > solid rather than fluid [verb (transitive)] > deposit (sediment) precipitate1644 deposit1672 throw1731 depose1759 depositate1782 sediment1859 vacuum-deposit1982 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 35 The greater and grosser part of the Sap may be..deposited into those [leaves]. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 54 The vapours..depositing..a slimy substance mixed with sulphur and salts. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 53 The evaporation of any dew that may have been deposited. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 143 [The water] deposits more or less of the matter which it holds in suspension. figurative.1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. vii. 302 Society, as it refines, deposits this [grossness] among its other impurities.1877 L. Tollemache in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 855 A myth [may be] deposited from a misunderstood text. d. intransitive. To be laid down or precipitated, to settle. rare.[In its origin apparently like ‘the house is building’ (for a-building) = ‘being built’.] ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > solid rather than fluid [verb (intransitive)] > sink to the bottom as sediment settlec1420 precipitatea1626 deposit1832 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic vi. 155 Moisture might be depositing in a stratum of one density. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vi. 127 When the great calcareous formation was depositing beneath the surrounding sea. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts I. 198/2 When no more silver deposits on the copper, the operation is completed. †2. figurative (transitive) To lay aside, put away, give up; to lay down (one's life, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] to let awaya1000 forcast?c1225 to lay downc1275 forthrow1340 flita1375 removea1382 to cast away1382 understrewc1384 castc1390 to lay awaya1400 to lay asidec1440 slingc1440 warpiss1444 to lay from, offc1480 way-put1496 depose1526 to lay apart1526 to put off1526 to set apart1530 to turn up1541 abandonate?1561 devest1566 dispatch1569 decarta1572 discard1578 to make away1580 to fling away1587 to cast off1597 doff1599 cashier1603 to set by1603 moult1604 excuss1607 retorta1616 divest1639 deposit1646 disentail1667 dismiss1675 slough1845 shed1856 jettison1869 shake1872 offload1900 junk1911 dump1919 sluff1934 bin1940 to put down1944 shitcan1973 1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. 14 Animosities..seemed now to be quite deposited and buried in a firm conglutination of their affections. 1682 Address from Barnstaple in London 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. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. x. 56 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. View more context for this quotation 1804 Miniature No. 21. ⁋3 When stripped of the buskin, he necessarily deposits his dignity. 3. a. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > for safe-keeping depose1583 depositate1618 dispositate1650 deposit1659 dispose1662 safety-deposit1891 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > deposit (money) to pay in1623 deposit1735 bank1792 1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. xv. 277 [He] had..deposited his wife in the hands of that most vertuous Princesse, the Cardinall Infanta. 1735 G. Berkeley Querist §44 The silver supposed to be deposited in the bank. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 365 Into this island, in times of danger, the inhabitants deposited their most valuable effects, to secure them from plunder. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 190 The Egyptian stone relic deposited in the British Museum. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxiii. 14 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. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > lay down money to lay down1560 lay1572 to tell down1600 consign1633 deposita1640 post1821 the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > pledge or deposit as security [verb (transitive)] setc1000 plight?c1225 lay1297 wagec1330 to lay to borrowc1405 pledgea1475 impledge1548 pawn1570 impawn1598 deposita1640 a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. i. 83 Lett vs to a notarie, Draw the conditions, see the crownes deposited. 1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c23 Oct. (1965) I. 232 It will be the best way to deposite a certain Sumn in some freind's hands, and buy some little Cornish Burrough. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 70 In making agreement for hire of cattle the money was required to be deposited. 1831 in W. Scott Peveril (new ed.) I. xi. 210 (note) Euery person that puts in either horse, mair, or gelding, shall..depositt the sume of fiue shill. apiece. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1634 M. Wilson Mercy & Truth i. ii. 71 The Apostles haue..deposited in her [the Church], as in a rich Storehowse, all things belonging to truth. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 429 To violate the sacred trust of silence Deposited within thee. View more context for this quotation 1739 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before Soc. Propagation of Gospel 12 Christianity is..a Trust, deposited with us in Behalf of Others..as well as for our own Instruction. 1837 J. H. Newman Parochial 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). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > hand over to another > for custody consign1528 entrusta1586 deposit1733 1733 J. Swift Advice to Freemen Dublin Some employments are still deposited to persons born here. 4. absol. To make or pay a deposit. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay a deposit or part-payment deposit1799 1799 Piece of Fam. Biog. III. 102 He bid, 'twas knock'd down to him, he deposited, and it was sent home. Derivatives deˈposited adj. ΚΠ 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiv. 285 That deposited Box. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 420 Based upon a deposited substratum of rock. deˈpositing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] everting1568 deposition1577 discarding1600 excussion1607 dispatch1608 reposition1617 absolution1655 depositing1667 discardment1713 discardurea1762 cashiering1826 dropping1859 discard1906 junking1911 shedding1945 load-shedding1947 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xix. 411 The greater difficulty will be, to perswade the depositing of those lusts. 1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone xiv. 301 The transporting and depositing agents. c1865 G. Gore in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 215/2 The depositing vessels [in electro-plating] are made of various materials. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1624v.1634
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