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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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
"He's up on the shoulder of Lost Chief, I depone," said Johnny.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
"But you depone that he charged you to tell only the truth?"
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
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 Morrow, Honoré
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
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
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
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
"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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