DEPONE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] Hudibras.

2.
v.

To lay down. [R.] Southey.

3.
v.

To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).

4.
v.

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.

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