Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove from office or power.
- intransitive verb To dethrone.
- intransitive verb Law To take a deposition from.
- intransitive verb To give testimony by affidavit or deposition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lay down; let fall; deposit.
- To lay aside.
- To remove; eject; evict.
- To remove from office, especially from royalty, or from high executive, ecclesiastical, or judicial office; dethrone; divest of office: as, to
depose a king or a bishop. - To take away; strip off (from one); divest (one of).
- To testify to; attest.
- To examine on oath; take the deposition of.
- To bear witness.
- Specifically To give testimony on oath; especially, to give testimony which is embodied in writing in a deposition or an affidavit; give answers to interrogatories intended as evidence in a court: as, he deposed to the following facts; the witness deposes and says that, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
- transitive verb obsolete To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
- transitive verb obsolete To let fall; to deposit.
- transitive verb To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
- transitive verb To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
- transitive verb obsolete To put under oath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb literally (
transitive ) To put down; tolay down ; todeposit ; to lay aside; to put away. - verb transitive To
remove (aleader ) from (high)office , without killing the incumbent. - verb law (
intransitive ) To giveevidence ortestimony , especially in response tointerrogation during adeposition - verb intransitive To take, swear an
oath . - verb law (
transitive ) Tointerrogate andelicit testimony during a deposition, typically by alawyer . - verb To
testify ; tobear witness ; toclaim ; toassert ; toaffirm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb force to leave (an office)
- verb make a deposition; declare under oath
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some years later, Lawrence returns with a new wife, Sapphire, a human this time and it seems that things will return to normal but Lawrence still refuses to open the gate and the Vaethyr villagers grow more and more impatient and angry with him, so only Auberon' trust and support keeps them from trying to "depose" him.
"Elfland" by Freda Warrington (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009
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Clergy and lay deputies to a special convention of the diocese on November 7 voted to invite Bishop Duncan back into leadership of the diocese 50 days after the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church voted to remove ( "depose") him
Anglican Mainstream 2008
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Clergy and lay deputies to a special convention of the diocese on November 7 voted to invite Bishop Duncan back into leadership of the diocese 50 days after the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church voted to remove ( "depose") him.
Stand Firm 2008
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"depose" him; because his oath had the audacity to plot his fall; because his plighted word conspired against him.
Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo 1843
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Impeachment for wrongdoing of lesser gravity involves a legislative usurpation of a power belonging only to the people (the power to choose and "depose"
Submission By Counsel For President Clinton To The Committee ITY National Archives 1998
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They are right that the commencement of proceedings in the Texan court is an attempt by the owners to depose them of their gains so far in English litigation.
Battle for Liverpool goes into extra-time after day in court Owen Gibson 2010
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Her father was hung by the man who went on to depose him.
Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011
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Her father was hung by the man who went on to depose him.
Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011
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This is saying something because normally I depose the life ruining aspects of gaming.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast AP Security forces loyal to the incumbent leader who refuses to give up power opened fire in Ivory Coast on Tuesday killing at least one person, as military chiefs from neighboring nations met to plan a possible armed intervention to depose Laurent Gbagbo.
oroboros commented on the word depose
Contronymic in the sense: overthrow vs. affirm, attest, elicit and record testimony.
January 27, 2007