Definition of depend

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Depend (v. i.) To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.

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Contingent :: Contingent (n.) An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency..
System :: System (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military sys
Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..
Wankle :: Wankle (a.) Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.
Depend :: Depend (v. i.) To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court..
Treaty :: Treaty (n.) An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance..
Patripassian :: Patripassian (n.) One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian..
Arbitrary :: Arbitrary (a.) Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment..
Stimulism :: Stimulism (n.) The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation..
Elective :: Elective (a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office..
Independent :: Independent (a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property..
Coherency :: Coherency (n.) Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness..
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause..
Lithography :: Lithography (n.) The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic..
Self-existent :: Self-existent (a.) Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being..
Meritmonger :: Meritmonger (n.) One who depends on merit for salvation.
Proglottis :: Proglottis (n.) One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence..
Free :: Free (superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty..
Testimony :: Testimony (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians..
Voter :: Voter (n.) One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter..
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