depone

American  

[dih-pohn] / dɪˈpoʊn /

verb (used with or without object)

deponed, deponing

1. to testify under oath; depose.

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depone British  

/ dɪˈpəʊn /

verb

1. law Scots law to declare (something) under oath; testify; depose

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Etymology

Origin of depone

1525–35; < Latin dēpōnere to put away, down, aside ( Medieval Latin: to testify), equivalent to dē- de- + pōnere to put

Example Sentences

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depone deponed deponing

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 Thomson, James Pringle

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 Sabatini, Rafael

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 MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

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 Trollope, Anthony

I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré

But what she deponed to might have happened when she was behind?-Yes;

From Second Shetland Truck System Report by Guthrie, William

And she hath deponed that on other nights, too, this has happened, that the Queen's Highness, when she hath come late to bed, hath equally done the same thing.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox

Hislop deponed, in the first place, that Lorimer, not Wotherspoon, was the actual forger of the bill, and that he had seen him write it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Lang, Andrew

"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 Morrow, Honoré

"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 Morrow, Honoré