depone
See also: deponé
English
Etymology
From Latin depono (“lay down, deposit, entrust”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊn
Verb
depone (third-person singular simple present depones, present participle deponing, simple past and past participle deponed)
- (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
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- (transitive, law) To take the deposition of; to depose.
- (transitive, rare, obsolete) To lay, as a stake; to wager.
- (transitive, obsolete) To lay down; to place
- c. 1829?, Robert Southey, Inscription at Fort Augustus
- the obedient element / Lifts or depones its burthen
- c. 1829?, Robert Southey, Inscription at Fort Augustus
Anagrams
- Pedone, opened
Italian
Verb
depone
- third-person singular present indicative of deporre
Anagrams
- Pedone, pedone
Latin
Verb
dēpōne
- second-person singular present active imperative of dēpōnō
Spanish
Verb
depone
- third-person singular present indicative of deponer