depone

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.
   • These two females did afterwards depone that Mr. Willet in his consternation uttered but one word1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LIV, in Barnaby Rudge
   • 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...1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240
2. (transitive) To take the deposition of; to depose.
3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To lay, as a stake; to wager.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To lay down; to place
   • c. 1829?, Robert Southey, Inscription at Fort Augustus
     the obedient element / Lifts or depones its burthen