depone
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of depone
1525–35; < Latin dēpōnere to put away, down, aside ( Medieval Latin: to testify), equivalent to dē- de- + pōnere to put
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"But you depone that he charged you to tell only the truth?"
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
She did indeed depone to a line being left for me at her house, which said line miscarried.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 by Robert Chambers
Hill, in his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost sheep; ...
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
It would have seemed utterly impossible, but "El Hombre propone y el Deos depone" as the Mexicans say.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson
John Moncrieff deponed that Gowrie said nothing of Henderson’s message, but sat at dinner, feigning to have no knowledge of the King’s approach, till the Master arrived, a few minutes before the King.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
Craigengelt, Gowrie’s steward, who was tortured, tried, convicted, and hanged, deponed that, going up the staircase, just after the King’s arrival, he met the Master, booted, and asked ‘where he had been.’
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
But what she deponed to might have happened when she was behind?-Yes;
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
I guess if the truth be deponed he's fonder of me than he is of anybody—excepting maybe Judith.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
I was not aware of it until I heard it deponed to yesterday.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
"I deponed I'd come, didn't I?" repeated the old fellow, and he was still deponing when Douglas started homeward.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
"I heard Jimmy Day deponing at the post-office to-day that Charleton was still off on a trip."
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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