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
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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
I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
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
"She told me not to go any crazier than I already was, and I deponed to her how Doug felt about me, and she went home."
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
"I deponed I'd come, didn't I?" asked old Johnny.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
"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 Scott, Walter, Sir
I deponed to her that I had to get up there and take care of you.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
Gubbins has deponed to you that he bought those sheep at the fair of Kelso, from a person of the name of Shiells, and that he paid the money for them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
"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
"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
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