depone

From Latin depono (“lay down, deposit, entrust”).

• Rhymes: -əʊn

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

1. (intransitive, law) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LIV, in Barnaby Rudge:

     These two females did afterwards depone that Mr. Willet in his consternation uttered but one word

2. (transitive, law) To take the deposition of; to depose.
3. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To lay, as a stake; to wager.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To lay down; to place
   • c. 1829?, Robert Southey, Inscription at Fort Augustus

     the obedient element / Lifts or depones its burthen

• Pedone, opened

depone

1. third-person singular present indicative of deporre

• Pedone, pedone

dēpōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēpōnō

depone

1. third-person singular present indicative of deponer