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plural debites
(obsolete) A deputy; an official. quotations
Jesus stode before the debite, and the debite axed him, saynge: Arte thou the kynge of the iwes?
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Matthew