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depone

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See also: deponé

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From Latin depono (lay down, deposit, entrust).

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depone (third-person singular simple present depones, present participle deponing, simple past and past participle deponed)

  1. (intransitive, law) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.
    • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LIV, in Barnaby Rudge:
      These two females did afterwards depone that Mr. Willet in his consternation uttered but one word
    • 1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:
      The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.
  2. (transitive, law) To take the deposition of; to depose.
  3. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To lay, as a stake; to wager.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To lay down; to place
    • c. 1829?, Robert Southey, Inscription at Fort Augustus
      the obedient element / Lifts or depones its burthen

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depone

  1. third-person singular present indicative of deporre

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dēpōne

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēpōnō

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depone

  1. third-person singular present indicative of deponer