depositary

How to use depositary in a sentence

• Among the Maories and their Polynesian kinsmen the priests are the great depositaries of tradition.

  The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland

• He sought for another topic, and hit upon sport as one more congenial to the tastes of the depositaries of public trust.

  The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 | Armando Palacio Valds

• You would say he is a stanch republican, and that the people are to be his depositaries of power.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 | Various

• By their descent, the Nestorians had become the depositaries of the old Greek medical science.

  History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) | John William Draper

• Lands of the same age contain different fossils, just as depositaries very far distant from each other enclose similar ones.

  Bouvard and Pcuchet | Gustave Flaubert