deponing

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
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