0 past simple and past participle of deputize
1 to act or speak for another person, especially at work:
Take first what is on his view the less significant of the two : deputized discourse.
So, however, we read their pronouncements, it is hard to take them as deputized discourse in any simple sense.
There are two modes of such double discourse within the merely human sphere, deputized and appropriated discourse.
Over the three days, the cowboys engaged onlookers in showdowns and deputized locals with sheriffs badges featuring tune-in information for the film.
Therefore, local citizens were deputized, armed, and positioned in the streets for defense.
Five hundred men were deputized to maintain order in the town.
Striking workers were evicted from company housing, and growers were deputized.
He has attempted to have his police officers deputized as immigration officers.
