Dependencies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dependency \De*pend"en*cy\, n.; pl. {Dependencies}.
     1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being
        subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection;
        reliance; trust.
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              Any long series of action, the parts of which have
              very much dependency each on the other. --Sir J.
                                                    Reynolds.
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              So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the
              crown of England.                     --Bacon.
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     2. A thing hanging down; a dependence.
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     3. That which is attached to something else as its
        consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.
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              This earth and its dependencies.      --T. Burnet.
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              Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are
              considered as dependencies on or affections of
              substances.                           --Locke.
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     4. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it
        belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great
        Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.
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     Note: Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency
           in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in
           meaning to 3 and 4.
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