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Quotation dates: 1709-1732, 1816-1910
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‡DEPONE, v.
1. intr. To testify; to give evidence upon oath, to depose.Sc. 1712 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1885) 75:
As they are hereby obliged to depone before the said magistrats.Sc. 1816 Scott B. Dwarf iv.:
I canna depone to having ever seen ane mysell.
Hence deponer, -ar, one who depones, Eng. deponent.Sc. 1732 J. Louthian Process (1752) 107:
That the Pannel's Presence may over-aw the Deponer.Lnk. 1709 J.P.s Lnk. (S.H.S. 1931) 70:
James Howesone . . . depones that Walter Carmichaell . . . came to deponar and complained.
2. tr. To declare upon oath .Sc. 1834 H. Miller Scenes and Leg. (1850) xxi.:
Any thing they could have to depone anent the spulzie.Sc. 1910 W. Roughead Trial O. Slater Intro. lix.:
For the defence, Dr W. G. Aitchison Robertson deponed that . . . he considered the hammer produced a very unlikely weapon.m.Lth. 1844 J. Ballantine Miller 276:
I have a witness to produce, who will depone that he saw these identical notes.Rxb. 1868 Hawick Advertiser (18 April) 3 /3:
John Angus, stockingmaker, having been sworn . . . deponed. . . .
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