dē-pŭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
I 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.—
II 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. 799: 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. Phorm. 246 and 251: si hoc in rem deputas, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 20: me omnes esse dignum deputant, id. Amph. 1, 1, 6; cf. Ter. Heaut. 135; Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: tun' virum me deputas esse? Ter. Hec. 524; 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.