Word of the Day for Friday, February 10, 2012
depone \dih-POHN\, verb:
To testify under oath; depose.
These two females did afterwards depone that Mr. Willet in his consternation uttered but one word, and called that up the stairs in a stentorian voice, six distinct times.
-- Charles Dickens, "Barnaby Rudge"
I cannot depone positively to the exact proportion of his waking or of his sleeping dreams that was of their weaving.
-- Edmund Quincy, "The Haunted Adjutant"
In Latin, dēpōnere meant "to put aside." In Medieval Latin it came to mean "to testify" and came directly into English. Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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