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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Depone

De-pōne', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. DEPONED; p. pr. & vb. n. DEPONING.] [Lat. deponere, from de and ponere, to put, place; Pr. & Sp. deponer, Pg. depor, It. deporre, diporre.]

Sense 1. To lay down as a pledge or security; to wager. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Sense 2. To assert under oath; to make deposition of; to depose.

Sprat deponeth that he entered thereafter in conference. State Trials.

☞ In the latter sense, the word is a Scotticism, and is rarely employed by good English writers.

De-pōne', v. i.

verbintransitive
  1. To testify under oath; to depose.
  2. To make an assertion; to give testimony.

The fairy Glorianda, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.