depone

1. (intransitive, law) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.Examples: "These two females did afterwards depone that Mr. Willet in his consternation uttered but one word"; "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 of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this."intransitive

2. (transitive, law) To take the deposition of; to depose.transitive

3. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To lay, as a stake; to wager.obsoleteraretransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To lay down; to placeExamples: "c. 1829?, Robert Southey, Inscription at Fort Augustus the obedient element / Lifts or depones its burthen"obsoletetransitive