deputy: locus =a place; tenens

of teneo = to hold.] I. Ord. Lang.: An officer, civil or military, who supplies the place of another temporarily during absence, illne , . "And this taxinge was ye first, and executed when Syrenius was lefte naunt in Siria."- Luke 2 (1551). II. Technically : 1. Mil .: A commi ioned officer ranking next below a captain. 2. Naval : A commi ioned officer ranking next below a Commander in the British Navy, and, relatively, with a captain in the army. Deputy- lieutenant : An officer appointed by the Lord-lieutenant of a county to act, in certain cases, as his deputy. ( Eng .)