(verb) : dē-pŭto, āvi, ātum, 1
* In agriculture, to cut off, prune: vineam,Cato R. R. 49, 1; 50, 1: arbores,Col. 11, 2, 32: palmites falce,id. 4, 7, 1: malleolum,id. 3, 10, 19.—Poet.: umbras (i. e. ramos), Ov. de Nuce, 63.
* Ante- and post-class., to esteem, consider, count as; and alicui or ad aliquid, in late Lat., to destine, allot to any one or any thing: operam alicujus parvi preti,Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 1: cum iniquis deputari,to be classed among,Vulg. Luc. 22, 37; cf.: aliquid delicto,to impute,Tert. de Poenit. 3: omne id esse in lucro,Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 16 and 21: si hoc in rem deputas,Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 20: me omnes esse dignum deputant,id. Amph. 1, 1, 6; cf. Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 83; Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: tun' virum me deputas esse?Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 9; cf. Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 65: vaccas steriles aratro,Pall. Mart. 11, 6; id. Sept. 10, 1: deputata sibi a natura sedes,Macr. S. 7, 14 al.: servos ad gladium ludi, to condemn, Capit. Macr. 12.

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