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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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
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
I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
These two females did afterwards depone that Mr Willet in his consternation uttered but one word, and called that up the stairs in a stentorian voice, six distinct times.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens
"In great force, you say, serjeant?" added Stubbs; "in overwhelming force—madness to attack them—you can depone on oath before a court-martial?"
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 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 Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley
I deponed that same thing to Peter the other day.
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
"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've deponed that many a time to this crowd of mavericks!
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
"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
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