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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I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
Mr Melmotte had been asked to depone the title-deeds, and had promised to do so as soon as the day of the wedding should have been fixed with the consent of all the parties.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
One of the hands speaking in vulgar English accent was heard to depone, 'By George if I could only get that prize I'd be a happy man, and would go back to old h-England.'
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
It was not in his quality as confessor that Fra Gervasio heard the dying man depone.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini
"He's up on the shoulder of Lost Chief, I depone," said Johnny.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
"Ay, wha kens that but herself?" said Saddletree; "she deponed farther, and declined to answer that interrogatory."
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
He deponed that, on the night of August 4, Gowrie bade him and Andrew Ruthven ride early to Falkland with the Master, and return, if the Master ordered him so to do, with a message.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
It had been deponed to me offeecially that no a tradesman - no the Deacon here himsel' - could have made a cleaner job wi' Andra Simpson's shutters.
From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley
I was not aware of it until I heard it deponed to yesterday.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
‘All these are deponed, not to be given till farther orders.’
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
"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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