How To Use Depone In A Sentence
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«deponent» because they have laid aside («dē-pōnere», _to lay aside_) the active forms.
Latin for Beginners
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Our opposing counsel were dead asleep in nappy nap land by the time Jeff whispered, essentially, “Did you infringe our patent?” and the deponent responded in another whisper, “Yeah, I guess so.”
PIG’S FEET is the new MUSLIM
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This eliminates ‘deponency’ from the discussion and attempts to communicate by the headword whether the lexeme occurs most commonly in the middle or in the active and passive forms.
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Two of the more troublesome phenomena are verbs with an active present and future middle; and ‘passive deponents,’ i.e., ‘deponent’ verbs whose aorists are passive in form, not middle.
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When one examines the ‘passive deponent’ verbs in question, they are a subset of the eighty-five-plus verbs that we have argued are true middles, not deponents.
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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.
Barnaby Rudge
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He deponed of the conditions in the condemned section (death row) of Luzira Prison, as follows:"The living conditions are extremely depressing."
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Another soldier deponed that he had seen Rebecca perch herself upon a high turret, and there take the form of a white swan, under which appearance she flitted three times round the castle of Torquailstone.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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The previous section points out that Koine ‘preferred the aorist passive in the case of deponents (where a real passive meaning is at best a possibility)’.
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She made her oath to the institution and the Scottish people in her mother tongue thus: "I, Maureen Watt, depone aat I wull be leal and bear ae fauld alleadgance tae her majesty Queen Elizabeth her airs an ony fa come aifter her anent the law."
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It was also called Dominica in albis deponendam, the Sunday for putting off the white garments.
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And other her maids have deponed how the Queen hath sent them from her presence and relieved them of tasks ---- '
The Fifth Queen Crowned
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Officium foeminarum est ducere bigas, ponere domus super eas et deponere, mungere vaccas, facere butirum et griut, parare pelles, et consuere eas, quas consuunt filo deneruis; diuidunt enim neruos in minuta fila, et postea illa contorquent in vnum longum filum.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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I thank God witches are out of fashion," observes Lady Mary, in a letter to her daughter, when spicy gossip about her doings abroad had been circulated in London, "or I should expect to have it deponed, by several credible witnesses, that I had been seen flying through the air on a broomstick.
The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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It must be remembered that the testimony was not upon oath, and that the deponent was a ruffian.]
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
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This was treated by both sides as a direction that affidavits or affirmations were to be evidence at this trial, even though the deponents did not attend for cross-examination.
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It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN
Redgauntlet
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I canna depone to having ever seen ane mysell, but, I ance heard ane whistle ahint me in the moss, as like a whaup
The Black Dwarf
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Irrespective of the profession of the intended deponent, discovery even of relevant evidence is subject to the balancing calculus, articulated in Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, that measures value against burden.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Journalist’s Privilege, Candlestick Maker’s Privilege, “a Curious Unreality,” and Piling Pelion Upon Ossa
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Typical is Wenham: ‘A deponent verb is one which is Middle or Passive in form, but Active in meaning.’
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It says that no one shall be imprisoned, deponed or restricted without a fair trial.
ANC Today
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Mr Melmotte had been asked to depone the title-deeds, and had promised to do so as soon as the day of the wedding should have been fixed with the consent of all the parties.
The Way We Live Now
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The subject of the deposition is called the deponent, and on this particular day the deponent was
Chicago Reader
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They had predicted it to Mrs Todgers, as she (Todgers) could depone, that very morning.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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They were deponed to by a condemned prisoner as follows: "Because you spend so much time in your cell alone, you endlessly brood over your fate and it becomes very difficult, and for some people impossible, to cope with it all."
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Mounce gives the figure of approximately seventy-five percent of the middle forms in the NT should be classified as deponent.
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It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN
Redgauntlet
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The fact that the person who committed the outrage was abroad on that day was deponed to by twenty-six witnesses.
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But they were going to do without us, and they did so; but whether ill or well, this deponent, meaning "We," knoweth not; and so, we're like Brer Rabbit, who lay low and said nothin '.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892
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The deponent was the policeman, and the sum of United States currency was one dollar.
Archive 2005-08-01
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The adoption of such a test would sometimes require the trial of an issue or at least cross-examination of deponents to affidavits.
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Captain Ross and his brother officer secured the swords of both men -- shutting the stable door, indeed, after the steed was stolen; in hot haste doctors were sent for; and 'mid the bustle and "strow" Eliott stumbled from the room and down the stair, "wanting his wig," as the landlady, whom he passed on the way, deponed.
Stories of the Border Marches
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If that is what the deponent of this affidavit wants to say, I want to cross-examine him.
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Whether we retain ‘deponency’ or not, we must develop a consistent method for listing headwords.
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I will argue that the validity of the notion of deponency is questionable in light of a closer look at the function and meaning of the middle voice in Greek.
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Captain Ross and his brother officer secured the swords of both men -- shutting the stable door, indeed, after the steed was stolen; in hot haste doctors were sent for; and 'mid the bustle and "strow" Eliott stumbled from the room and down the stair, "wanting his wig," as the landlady, whom he passed on the way, deponed.
Stories of the Border Marches
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The Continuing Record extends to eleven volumes and includes serious, contentious allegations back and forth between the parties and other deponents.
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The contents of the paper was skilfully worded so as to convey the impression that the deponent was a woman of somewhat doubtful character herself, but that on the other hand she had been tricked by the defendant into a secret -- and what he intended to be a temporary -- marriage.
The Confessions of Artemas Quibble
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You are the deponent of the affidavit which you have provided to the Court Registry in support of the application?
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The turnkey, guessing from my appearance that I had money in my pocket, received me with the repetition of the Latin word depone, and gave me to understand, that I must pay beforehand for the apartment I should choose to dwell in.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Concerning further details deponent sayeth not, though he may hint that some of his plethoric national patriotism simmered down and leaked out of the bottom of his soul somewhere -- at least, since that experience he finds that he cares more for men and women and little children than for imaginary geographical lines.
How I Became a Socialist
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Just because an active form doesn't exist in the relatively small corpus of the New Testament, this is no reason to deem a verb deponent.
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Apud antiquos amor Lethes olim fuit, is ardentes faeces in profluentum inclinabat; hujus statua Veneris Eleusinae templo visebatur, quo amantes confluebant, qui amicae memoriam deponere volebant.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Inverlochie, and desir'd the Col.nel to minister to him the oath of allegiance, that he might have the King's indemnity: But Col. Hill, in his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost sheep; ...
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)
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He deponed that he was standing close beside the Captain of the Vital Spark when the collision took place.
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He argues that in light of recent discussion we can do a better job of classifying deponent forms and understanding them than we have in the past.
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The fatal bonnet lay on the table of the Court; Bargally swore that it was the identical article worn by the man who robbed him; and he and others likewise deponed that they had found the accused on the spot where the crime was committed, with the bonnet on his head.
Additional Note
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In addition to the interesting discussion given in Bauer's essay, we could wish for a clear explanation of how deponency was treated and handled in the headwords of the entries.
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I canna depone to having ever seen ane mysell, but, I ance heard ane whistle ahint me in the moss, as like a whaup
The Black Dwarf
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John and Alexander MacDonalds, sons to the deceas'd Glenco, depone, that Glengary's house being reduc'd, the forces were called back to the south, and Glenlyon, a captain of the Earl of Argyle's regiment, with Lieutenant Lindsay, and
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)
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Gubbins has deponed to you that he bought those sheep at the fair of Kelso, from a person of the name of Shiells, and that he paid the money for them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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CLINTON: Because that is -- if the deponent is the person who has oral sex performed on him, then the contact is with -- not with anything on that list, but with the lips of another person.
CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2001
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The turnkey, guessing from my appearance that I had money in my pocket, received me with the repetition of the Latin word depone, and gave me to understand, that I must pay beforehand for the apartment
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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I have visited the sign in question, which yet swings exalted in the village of Langdirdum; and I am ready to depone upon the oath that what has been idly mistaken or misrepresented as being the fifth leg of the horse, is, in fact, the tail of that quadruped, and, considered with reference to the posture in which he is delineated, forms a circumstance introduced and managed with great and successful, though daring, art.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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It is a misnomer to classify this as a deponent verb; the middle force of the verb is not absent.
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She deponed to say a fact for the accused.
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Other witnesses deponed that Rebecca muttered to herself in an unknown tongue, that the songs she sang were peculiarly sweet, that her garments were of a strange mystic form, and that she had rings with cabalistic devices.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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The deponents to these affidavits state that they have suffered injuries which were not fully compensated for under the prior settlements.
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He came in with his family, a son and a daughter, and four or five servants: they all left the house the next day, and although they deponed that they had all seen something different, that something was equally terrible to all.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain
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I understand from the affidavits that the various deponents have inconvenienced themselves by coming to the Court today.
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Alexander Mowdiewort, or Moldieward, to answer for the sin of misca'in 'the minister and session o' this parish, and to show cause why he, as a sectary notour, should not demit, depone, and resign his office of grave digger in the kirk-yard of this parish with all the emoluments, benefits, and profits thereto appertaining.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
