See also: dépose and déposé

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EtymologyEdit

Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (down) + poser (to put, place). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈpəʊz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /diˈpoʊz/, /dəˈpoʊz/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊz

VerbEdit

depose (third-person singular simple present deposes, present participle deposing, simple past and past participle deposed)

  1. (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
    • 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: [], London: [] Ric[hard] Wilkin [], →OCLC:
      additional mud deposed upon it
  2. (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
    A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
    • 1643, William Prynne, “(please specify |part=1 to 4, or Appendix)”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: [], London: [] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC:
      a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
  3. (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
  4. (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
    After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
  5. (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
  6. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
    • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
      to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

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EtymologyEdit

From depos (since, afterward) +‎ -e (adverb).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /de.ˈpo.se/, /dɛ.ˈpɔ.sɛ/

AdverbEdit

depose

  1. since, from that time, thence, thenceforth

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depose

  1. third-person singular past historic of deporre