اِعْتَمَدْتُ

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اِعْتَمَدْتُVIII I leaned, reclined, bore, or rested, upon the thing; stayed, propped, or supported, myself upon it.
2 And [hence] اعتمدت عَلَيْهِ فِى كَذَا I relied upon him in such a thing, or case; as also اِعْتَمَدْتُهُ. And اعتمدت عَلَى الكِتَابِ [and اعتمدت الكِتَابَ, and perhaps بِالكِتَابِ ,] I relied upon the book, and held to it: a metaphorical phrase, from the first above.
3 [Hence also the phrase, used by grammarians, يَعْتَمِدُ عَلَى مَا قَبْلَهُ It is syntactically dependent upon what is before it; as, for instance, an enunciative upon its inchoative, an epithet upon the subst. which it qualifies, and an objective complement of a verb upon its verb.
4 اعتمد المَطَرُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ, a phrase occurring in the K in art. نكح, app. means The rain rested upon the ground so as to soak into it: see عَمِدَ.]
5 اعتمد عَلَى السَّيْرِ He went, or journeyed, gently; went a gentle pace. (L in art. هود.) And اعتمد لَيْلَتَهُ He rode on journeying during his night.

def.2 See also 1, former half, in three places.
2 [اعتمدهُ بِكَذَا means قَصَدَهُ بِكَذَا i. e. He brought to him such a thing; lit. he directed, or betook, himself to him with such a thing: see two exs. in the first paragraph of art. بى.]

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