How To Use Deponent In A Sentence
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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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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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The deponent was the policeman, and the sum of United States currency was one dollar.
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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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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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The subject of the deposition is called the deponent, and on this particular day the deponent was
Chicago Reader
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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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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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«deponent» because they have laid aside («dē-pōnere», _to lay aside_) the active forms.
Latin for Beginners
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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 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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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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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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If that is what the deponent of this affidavit wants to say, I want to cross-examine him.
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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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I understand from the affidavits that the various deponents have inconvenienced themselves by coming to the Court today.
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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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It is a misnomer to classify this as a deponent verb; the middle force of the verb is not absent.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The Continuing Record extends to eleven volumes and includes serious, contentious allegations back and forth between the parties and other deponents.
