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DEPONE
swear, depose, depone
(verb) make a deposition; declare under oath
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
depone (third-person singular simple present depones, present participle deponing, simple past and past participle deponed)
(intransitive, legal) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.
(transitive, legal) To take the deposition of; to depose.
(transitive) To lay, as a stake; to wager.
(transitive) To lay down.
Anagrams
• Pedone, opened
Source: Wiktionary
De*pone", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deponed; p. pr. & vb. n. Deponing.] Etym: [L. deponere, depositum, to put down, in LL., to assert under oath; de- + ponere to put, place. See Position, and cf. Deposit.]
1. To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] Hudibras.
2. To lay down. [R.] Southey.
3. To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).
De*pone", v. i.
Definition: To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism] The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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