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▪ I. † deˈpose, n. Obs.
Also 5 depos, Sc. depois.
[f. depose v.]
1. The state of being laid up or committed to some one for safe keeping; custody, keeping, charge; concr. that which is so laid up, a deposit.
1393Gower Conf. I. 218 For God..Hath set him but a litel while That he shall regne upon depose. c1430Lydg. Bochas ii. xxii. (1554) 58 b, The sayd herd..[and] His wyfe..This yong child toke in their depos. c1440Promp. Parv. 119 Depose, depositum. 1488Inv. in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 390 The gold and silver..jowellis and uther stuff..that he had in depois the tyme of his deceis.
2. Deposition from office or authority.
1559Ferrers in Mirr. Mag., Rich. II vii, To helpe the Percyes plying my depose.
▪ II. depose, v.|dɪˈpəʊz|
Also 6 Sc. depois.
[a. F. dépose-r (12th c. in Littré), f. de- I. 1 + poser to place, put down:—Rom. posāre = late L. pausāre to cease, lie down, lay down, etc.: see pose, repose. Through form-association with inflexions of L. pōnĕre, posui, positum, and contact of sense, this -poser came to be treated as synonymous with OF. -pondre (:—L. pōnĕre) and took its place in the compounds, so that déposer is now used instead of OF. depondre, L. dēpōnĕre to depose, and associated in idea with deposit, deposition, depositor, etc., which had no original connexion with depose.]
1. trans. To lay down, put down (anything material); to deposit. arch.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xi. 460 Take leves..of Citur tree..And into must..Depose, and close or faste it closed se. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 223 b, Saynt Peter & Saynt Paule..by martyrdome deposed there the tabernacles of theyr bodyes. 1621B. Jonson Gypsies Metamorph., Face of a rose, I pray thee depose Some small piece of silver. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 33 The ashes of Sacrifices..were carefully carried out by the Priests, and deposed in a clean field. 1718Prior Solomon ii. 607 The youthful Band depose their glitt'ring Arms. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) III. vi. iii. 419 A paper which he solemnly deposed on the high altar.
†b. To put, lay, or place (somewhere) for safe keeping; to place or put in some one's charge.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 18 We must depose and lay foorth ourselues, both bodie, and goods, life, and time..into the hands of the prince. a1612Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 108 [Josephus] sayes, our Soule is, particula Dei, and deposed and committed in trust to us. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 643 [He] left them [writings] in the monastery where they had been deposed.
†c. Of fluids: To deposit (as a sediment). Obs.
1758Huxham in Phil. Trans. I. 524 The urine was..turbid, and..deposed a great deal of lateritious sediment. 1816Accum Chem. Tests (1818) 246 A blue precipitate will be deposed.
†2. fig. To put away, lay aside (a feeling, quality, character, office, etc.). Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 73 Depose or put from you the olde man..and be ye renewed in the spiryte of your mynde. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 139 Being sodden..they depose all their hurt. 1628Hobbes Thucyd. ii. lxv, They deposed not their anger till they had fined him in a sum of money. 1677Govt. Venice 50 The General..can hardly bring himself to depose an Authority that he can so easily keep.
3. To put down from office or authority; esp. to put down from sovereignty, to dethrone. (The earliest and still the prevailing sense.)
c1300K. Alis. 7822 Theo kyng dude him [a justise] anon depose. c1470Harding Chron. cxcvi, The parliament then for his misgouernaunce Deposed him [Richard II]. 1535Coverdale Dan. v. 20 He was deposed from his kyngly trone, and his magesty was taken from him. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 157 The Aldermen that before were deposed, were agayne restored to their wardes and offices. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xl. 254 In deposing the High Priest..they deposed that peculiar Government of God. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. 10 Mar., The late emperor..was deposed by his brother. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 23 Shortly after the battle of Hastings, Saxon prelates and abbots were violently deposed. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 108 Sir Thomas More..declared as his opinion that parliament had power to depose kings if it so pleased.
b. gen. To put down, bring down, lower (from a position or estate). Obs. exc. as fig. from prec.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 514 Riȝt so ȝe clerkes for ȝowre coueityse, ar longe, Shal þei..ȝowre pryde depose. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 77/3, I that am an only sone to my fader and moder I shold depose theyr olde age with heuynes and sorow to helle. 1671Milton P.R. i. 413 He before had sat Among the prime in splendour, now deposed, Ejected, emptied. 1873Holland A. Bonnic. xviii. 281, I had never seen Mrs. Belden so thoroughly deposed from her self-possession.
†4.
a. To take away, deprive a person of (authority, etc.); also to remove (a burden or obligation; opp. to impose). Obs.
1393Gower Conf. III. 200 In sory plite..he lay, The corone on his hede deposed. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iv. i. 192 You may my Glories and my state depose, But not my Griefes, still am I King of those. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. iv. iii. 195 Princes know well to impose exactions, and know not how to depose them.
†b. To divest, deprive, dispossess (a person of something that enhances). Obs.
1558Knox First Blast (Arb.) 29 If a king shulde depose himself of his diademe or crowne and royal estat. 1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Ivstine 98 a, He was content to depose him[self] of such a trouble as to be a soueraigne. 1649Lovelace Poems 10 Depose your finger of that Ring, And Crowne mine with't awhile. 1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 257 It would be very preposterous to believe, that the Peers would depose themselves of their Hereditary Rights.
5. To testify, bear witness; to testify to, attest; esp. to give evidence upon oath in a court of law, to make a deposition.
a. techn. (a) trans. with simple obj. (usually pronominal).
a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) 219 And blynde was borne undowtedlye And that we will depose. 1566in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture 43 And that we will depose vpon a book. a1626Bacon (J.), To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands. 1742Young Nt. Th. vii. 340 Each much deposes; hear them in their turn. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 1347 And what discretion proved, I find deposed At Vire, confirmed by his own words.
(b) with obj. clause (or obj. and inf.).
1562Child-Marriages (E.E.T.S.) 106 They cold not depose her to be of honest name. 1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 20 a, [He] offred to depose that he knew that one of the prisoners..was otherwhere then was sayd in his inditement. a1715Burnet Own Time II. 396 The earls of Clare, Anglesey and some others..deposed what Lord Howard had said. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. 236 The workman..deposed, that he carried the..Vase..to the furnace. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 231 It was deposed that La Barre and D'Etallonde had passed within thirty yards of the sacred procession without removing their hats.
(c) intr. (for or against a person, to († for) or against a thing or fact.)
c1400[see deposing vbl. n. 2.]
1542–3Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, c. 1 Other witnes..of as good..credence as those be whiche deposed against them. a1569A. Kingsmill Man's Est. xi. (1580) 74 Pilate could not but thus depose for his innocence, saying, I finde no faulte in hym. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, i. ii. 26 Then seeing 'twas he that made you to depose, Your Oath..is vaine. 1623T. Scot Highw. God 57 The honest Heathen or Turke, for whose truth the Christian dares depose. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 416 He dreaded lest the spectators of his dexterity should depose against his own witchcraft. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xix, The shot, the finding of the body, the subsequent discovery of the gun, were rapidly deposed to. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. iii. x, He deposed to having fastened up the house at eleven o'clock.
b. gen. To testify, bear witness, affirm, assert.
1529More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 211/2 Than should either the newe proues depose the same that the other did before, or els thei shoulde depose the contrary. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. Pref. A b, [I] have knowne the Author from both our infancies, and..can depose in what fashion he effecteth his labours. 1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 11 We shall not with Epigenes in Pliny, depose that this Art had its being from Eternity. a1840J. H. Newman Paroch. Serm. Rom. iv. 23 When our memory deposes otherwise.
†c. To promise formally upon oath; to swear (to do something). Obs.
1610in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 122 You shall depose to be true liege man unto the Queene's Majestie.
†6. causally. To examine on oath, to take the evidence or deposition of; to cite as a witness, call to give evidence. (Cf. to swear a witness.) pass. To give evidence, testify, bear witness. Obs.
1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 9 §5 No Person..so convicted..to be..received as a Witness to be deposed and sworn in any Court. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 30. 1623 Massinger Dk. Milan iv. i, Grant thou hadst a thousand witnesses To be deposed they heard it. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. xxxvi. (1647) 225 S. Cyprian is the man whom I would choose..to depose in this cause. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. ix. 69 The said bishop got leave for certain of the clergy to be deposed on his behalf.
†7. To set, put, or lay down in writing. Obs.
1668Excellency of Pen & Pencil A iij, This little Tract..where the requisites for Limning in Water-Colours are deposed..the Colours particularly nominated [etc.]. 1698Phil. Trans. XX. 287, I put here the Differences by me computed..and deposed according to the Order of the Excesses. |