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Cut me oft'the heads 
Of all the fav’rites that the abfent king 
In deputation left behind him here, 
When he was perfonal in the Irifli war. S/ialufpcare. 
To DEPU' I if, v. a. [ deputer , Fr.] To fend witli a fpe- 
cial commiffion; to impower one to tranfaft inftead of 
another.—And Abfalom faid unto him, See thy matters 
are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the 
king to hear. 2 Sam. 
And Linus thus, deputed by the red, 
The heroes welcome and their thanks exprefs’d. Rofcom. 
DE'PUTY, /. [1 depute , Pr. from deputatus, Lat.] A 
heuenant; a viceroy; one that is appointed by a fpe- 
cial commidion to govern or aft indead of another.— 
Man was Vouched his immediate deputy upon earth, and 
viceroy of the creation, and lord-lieutenant of the world. 
South. —Any one that tranfafts btidnefs for another.—A 
man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place ; 
but where friendlhip is, all offices of life are, as it were, 
granted to him and his deputy ; for he may exercife them 
by hi,s friend. Bacon. 
DE’PUTY, J'. in law, is one who exercifes an office in 
another man's right; whofe forfeiture or mifdemeanor 
•fliall caufe him, whofe deputy he is, to lofe his office. 
The common law takes notice of deputies in many cafes, 
but it never takes notice of under-deputies ; for a deputy 
is generally but a perfon authorifed, who cannot autho¬ 
rise another. 1 till, Abr. 446. A man cannot make his 
deputy in all cafes, except the grant of the office judify 
him in it, and where it is to one to execute by depaty, 
&c. And there is a great difference between a deputy 
and adignee of an office ; for an affignee hath an intereft 
in the office itfelf, and doth all things in his own name ; 
for whom his grantor Avail not anfwer, unlefs in fpecial 
cafes. But a deputy hath not any intered in the office, 
but is only the fhadow of the officer, in whofe name lie 
doth all things. And wdiere an officer hath power to 
.make afiigns, he may implicitly make deputies. And a 
fheriff may make a deputy, or under-dieriff, although he 
have not fuch exprefs words in his patent. 9 Rep. 49. 
A deputy cannot make a deputy, becaufe it implies an 
affignment of his whole power, which he cannot affign 
over; but he may impower another to do a particular 
add. 1 Salk. 96. Judges cannot aft by deputy, but are to 
hold their courts in perfon ; for they may not transfer 
their power over to others. 2 Hawk. P. C. c. 1. But it 
has been adjudged, that recorders may hold their courts 
by deputy. 1 Lev. 76. The office of cujlos brevium and 
chirographer, in the court of common-pleas, cannot be 
executed by deputy. 1 NelJ'. Abr. 644. A Reward of a 
court may make a deputy ; and aids of an under-fteward’s 
• deputy have been held good in fome cafes. Cro. Eliz. 534. 
A coroner ought not to execute his office by deputy, 
it being a judicial office of truft ; and judicial offices are 
annexed to the perfon. 1 Lil. 446. If the office of parker- 
fhip be granted to one, he may not grant this to auother; 
becaufe it is an office of trull and confidence. Terms de 
Ley. A bailiff of a liberty may make a deputy. Cro. Jac. 
240. And a conftable may make a deputy, who may ex¬ 
ecute the warrant dire died to the conftable, &c. 2 Danv, 
482, When an office defeends to an infant, ideot, &c. 
iuch may make a deputy of courfe. 9 Rep. 47. Where 
an office is granted to a man and his heirs, lie may make 
an affignee of that office ; and by confequence a deputy. 
To DEQUAN'TITATE, v. a. [from de and quantitas , 
Lat.] To diminifti the quantity of.—This we affirm of 
pure gold; for that which is current, and paffeth in (lamp 
amongft 11s, by reafon of its allay, isadtually dequantilated 
by fire, and poffibly by frequent extinction. Brown. 
DER, a term ufed in the beginning of names of places. 
•It is generally to he derived from beop, a wild beaft, un- 
-lefs the place ftands upon a river; for then it may ra- 
.ther be fetched from the Britifh dur, i. e. water. Gibfon. 
■DER, a town of Egypt: eleven miles fouth of Sint. 
DER-DOTNG, adj. [Teems to be a word made by 
Spenfer (to fuit his metre) from derring (which fee) and 
do. ] Adventurous: 
Me ill befits, that in der-doing armes 
And honour’s fuit my wonted daies do fpend, 
Unto thy bounteous baits and pleafing charmes, 
With which weak men thou witcheft, to attend. Spenf. 
To DERA'CINATE, v. a. [deraciner , Fr.] To pluck 
or tear up by the roots: 
Her fallow lees 
The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory, 
Doth root upon ; while that the culter rufts 
That fliould deracinate fuch favagery. Shakefpeare. 
To abolifh ; to deftroy ; to extirpate. 
To DERA'IGN, cr Derain, v. a. \_difrationare , or di- 
rationarc, Lat.] To prove; to juftify. Todiforder; to 
turn out of courfe. 
To. DERA'IGN, in law, is ufed diverfely ; but gene¬ 
rally to prove, viz. to deraign that right, deraign the 
warranty, & c. Glanv. lib. 2. c. 6. If a man hath an eftate 
in fee with warranty, and enfeoffs a ftranger with war¬ 
ranty, and dies ; and the feoffee vouches the heir, the 
heir ffiall deraign the firft warranty, &c. Plowd. 7. And 
joint-tenants and tenants in common fliall have aid, to 
the intent to deraign the warranty paramount. 31 Hen. 
VIII. c. 1. Britton applies this word to a funmions that 
they be challenged as defective, or not lawfully made, 
cap. 21. And Skene confounds it with our waging and 
making of law. 
DER AIGN'MENY, or Derainment,/. The aft of 
deraigning or proving. A difordering or turning out of 
courfe. A difeharge of profeffion ; a departure out of 
religion.—-In fome places the fubftantive deraignment is 
ufed in the very literal fignification with the French dif¬ 
ray er, or difranger ; that is, turning out of courfe, dis¬ 
placing, or fetting out of order ; as, deraignment or depar¬ 
ture out of religion, and deraignment or difeharge of their 
profeffion, which is fpoken of thofe religious men who 
forfook their orders and profeffions. Blount. 
To DERAN'GE, v. a. [from de, Lat. and range. To 
put out of order.—A deranged intelleft, and deranged cir- 
cumftances, are common expreflions. Mafcn’s Suppl. 
DER AN'GEMENT,y. The ftate of being out of or¬ 
der.—For this noun, any more than the verb, the com¬ 
piler cannot recolleft any written authority. MaJ'on. 
DERAS'NIA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : fixty-eight miles north-weft of Braclaw. 
DERAZI'NA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lucko : twenty-eight miles north-eaft of Lucko. 
DERA'Y, /. [from defrayer , Fr. to turn out of the 
right way.] Tumult; diforder; noife. Merriment; jol¬ 
lity ; folemnity : not in ufe. Douglafs. 
DER'BE, a town of Piedmont, in the duchy of Aofta: 
ten miles weft of Aofta. 
DER'BE, a city of Lycaonia, where St. Paul and Bar¬ 
nabas preached the gofpel, and where Paul firft became 
acquainted with Timothy. Atfs, xiv. 6. 
DERBE'ND, or Derbent, a city of Perfia, in the 
province of Schirvan, fituated on the weft coaft of the 
Cafpian fea, with a good harbour, faid to have been 
founded by Alexander; the refidence of a khan, and 
many Armenian merchants. Czar Peter became mafter 
of it during the civil wars of Perfia; and the emprefs 
Catharine II. took it in the year 1780. Dr. Gmelin vi- 
fited the city a few years before, and deferibes it as fitu¬ 
ated on the fide of a mountain, extending almoft to the 
fea, where, to the weft, an ancient wall with towers ap¬ 
pears to have paffed to the Euxine. The grapes here 
are excellent, as are moft kinds of European fruits. Lat. 
42. 8. N. Ion. 67. 35. E. Ferro. 
DERBE'ND, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Romania: twenty miles north of Adrianople. 
DER'BENT, a town of Perfia, in the province of Cho- 
rafan : 110 miles north-eaft of Herat. 
DER'BENT, 
