Debite

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A deputy; an official. obsolete

    "Jesus stode before the debite, and the debite axed him, saynge: Arte thou the kynge of the iwes?"

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"Jesus stode before the debite, and the debite axed him, saynge: Arte thou the kynge of the iwes?"

Etymology

Alteration of depute.

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