in we : 
fall; deposit. 
depose 
.] I. trans. 1. To lay down; lot 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
Take leves ureen ynough of Citur tree, . . . 
Ami nit-' must that yit not fervent be 
Depone, unti i-hist 1 or faste it closed se. 
PaUadini, llusbundrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 203. 
I pray thee depose 
Some small piece of silver ; it shall be no lout. 
B, Jtinmni, Gipsies Metamorphosed. 
The long-enduring ferns In time will all 
Die and detione their ilust upon the wall. 
CraMe, Works, II. 24. 
2f. To lay aside. 
God hath deposed his wrath towards all mankind. 
term*. 
3f . To remove ; eject ; evict. 
\\Y have summoned you hither, to dispossess you of 
tin iso places and to depone you from those rooms, whereof 
IndMd by virtue of our own grant, yet against reason, 
you are possessed. Hooker, Eecles. Polity, v. 81. 
4. To remove from office, especially from roy- 
alty, or from high executive, ecclesiastical, or 
judicial office; dethrone; divest of office: as, 
to depose a king or a bishop. 
Tims when the state one Edward did depose, 
A greater Edward in his room arose. 
Dryden, Epistles, x. , To Congreve. 
The Jews well know their power: ere Saul they chose, 
God was their king, and God they durst depose. 
;</"'"'. Abs. and A chit., 1. 418. 
They had depoted one tyrant, only to make room for a 
thousand. J. Adams, Works, V. 40. 
6t. To take away ; strip off (from one) ; divest 
(one of). 
You may my glories and my state devote, 
But not my griefs ; still am I king of those. 
Shot, Rich. II., iv. 1. 
Your title speaks you nearest heaven, and points 
You out a glorious reign among the angeU ; 
Do not depose yourself of one, and be 
Of the other disinherited. Shirley, The Traitor, iii. 8. 
6. To testify to ; attest. 
To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands. Bacon. 
1 am ready to depose, when I shall be lawfully called, 
that no European did ever visit those countries before 
me. Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iv. 12. 
7. To examine on oath; take the deposition 
of. 
Depose him in the justice of his cause. 
Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. 
II. intrans. 1. To bear witness. 
A man might reason with us all day long, without per- 
suading us that we slept through the day, or that we re- 
turned from a long journey, when our memory depones 
otherwise. /. //. Newman, Parochial .Sermons, i. 191. 
Specifically 2. To give testimony on oath: 
especially, to give testimony which is embodied 
in writing in a deposition or an affidavit; give 
answers to interrogatories intended as evidence 
in a court : as, he deposed to the following facts ; 
the witness deposes and says that, etc. 
'Twashethatmadeyouto depose. Shak. , 8 Hen. VI. , 1. 2. 
deposer (de-po'zer), n. 1. One who deposes 
or degrades from office. 2. A deponent; a 
witness. 
of deponere, pp. depositus, lay aside, deposit: 
see depone and depose, and cf. deposit, .] I. 
trans. 1. To lay down; place; put: as, a croc- 
odile deposits her eggs in the sand ; soil de- 
linnited by a river. 
On both sides of these apartments [catacombs] are three 
stories of holes, big enough to depogite the bodies in. 
Pocockf, Description of the East, I. 9. 
2. To lay away ; lay in a place for preservation 
or safe-keeping ; store : as, to deposit goods in 
a warehouse. 
Here might be the temple of Diana, a place of security, 
where Hannibal deposited his vases of lead, as if they were 
full of money, and left carelessly in his house some brass 
statues, which he filled with his gold. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 2r>.". 
Stow tells us that, in his memory, great part of Leaden 
Hall was appropriated to the purpose of painting and de- 
positing the pageants for the use of the city. 
Strutt, SporU and Pastimes, p. 26. 
3. To place for care or custody ; lodge in trust ; 
place: as, to deposit money in a bank; to de- 
posit bonds or goods with a creditor as security. 
The people with whom God thought fit to deposit these 
things for the benefit of the world. 
Clarke, Works, II. clxiii. 
4f. To lay or set aside ; get rid of. 
If what is written prove usefull to you, to the depositing 
that which I cannot but deem an errour. 
Hiiiiiiiuimi, Works, I. 704. 
It has been often alleged, that the passions can never 
b wholly deposited. Qoidtmith, Tate. 
I. vir, 
II. intrans. To settle or be formed by deposi- 
tion ; descend and rest or become attached. 
When the strata of the C'onlillcnis ITC ';< IttXf, tin i 
were islands which even in the latitude of Northern Chile, 
where now all is irreclalinably desert, supported large 
coniferous forests. Darwin, Geol. Observations, It. 409. 
When no more silver deposits on the copper, the opera- 
tion Is completed. Workshop Receipts, 1st er., p. 198. 
deposit (de-poz'it), it. [Formerly dcposite (in 
ME. ilcpos't, < OF. depost, F. depot, > E. depot); 
= 8p. Pg. It. depostto, < L. deposittim (ML. 
also depontum), a thing laid aside or given in 
trust, ncut. of depositus, pp. of deponere, lay 
aside : see the verb.] 1. That whicn is laid or 
thrown down; matter laid down or lodged in 
a place, or settled by subsidence or precipita- 
tion, as from a fluid medium. 
Throws the golden sands, 
A rich deposit, on the border lands. 
Cowper, Charity. 
Meanwhile the hours were each leaving their little de- 
posit, and gradually forming the final reason for Inaction 
namely, that action was too late. 
George Eliot, Middleman*, I. 378. 
Specifically (a) In yeol. , any mass of material which has 
been thrown down from, or moved and gathered together 
by, water, or which has been separated from a solution 
by chemical agencies. Irregularity of form is rather a 
characteristic of a deposit ; if the material be evenly and 
uniformly distributed, it would more generally be termed 
a bed or layer. The products of volcanic agencies are 
rarely designated by the term deposit. 
The most characteristic distinction between the lacus- 
trine and marine deltas consists In the nature of the or- 
gauic remains which become imbedded in their deposits. 
Lyell. 
(b) In mining, the most general term for an accumulation, 
or "occurrence, " of ore, of whatever form or nature it may 
be ; but the word ore is generally added. (See ore-deposit.) 
By some authors the term deposit is used as meaning a mode 
of occurrence of ore supposed to be less permanent in Its 
character than a true vein. Thus, flat masses or sheets 
would often be called deposits, especially if not exhibit- 
ing any of the special characters of true or fissure veins. 
(See vein.) (c) The metallic coating precipitated by gal- 
vanic action from a chemical solution upon a ground or 
base, as the film of gold or silver on plated articles, or of 
copper on copper-faced type, or the copper shell of an 
electrotype plate. 
2. Anything intrusted to the care of another; 
something given into custody for safe-keeping; 
specifically, money lodged in a bank for safety 
or convenience. 
It seems your church is not so faithful a guardian of her 
deposit as her dear friends . . . would make us believe. 
Hammond, Works, II. t 677. 
I do not at all doubt that the arrangement is in a cer- 
tain degree at haphazard, hut it seems to me that there 
must have been a meaning in the prominence given to 
Deposits in the Roman and Hindu law, and in the promi- 
nence assigned to Thefts in the law both of the Romans 
and of the Salian Franks. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 383. 
3. A place where things are deposited ; a de- 
pository. [Bare.] 4. The state or fact of be- 
ing deposited or stored in the care of another ; 
storage : as, to have money on deposit in a bank ; 
saf e deposit. 5. A pledge; a pawn; something 
given as security. Specifically 6. In law: 
(a) A sum of money which one puts into the 
hands of another to secure the fulfilment of 
some agreement, or as a part payment in ad- 
vance. (6) A naked bailment of personal prop- 
erty, to be kept for the bailor without recom- 
pense, and to be returned when he shall require 
it. (c) In Scots law, same as depositation. 7t. 
Deposition. 
I desire that this may not lie looked upon as a full and 
finished character, but my solemn deposit of the truth, to 
the best of my knowledge. Chesterjield, Miscellanies. 
Certificate of deposit, see certificate. Contact de- 
posit. See contact. Coralline deposits, in geol., a 
term applied to those recent or alluvial strata which con- 
sist of the marine banks, shoals, and islands entirely com* 
posed of coral, and thence extended to the lower Pliocene 
deposits of Suffolk, England, the white or coralline crag. 
Melanic deposit. See melanic. Special deposit, a 
deposit In a bank which the bank is not entitled to use, 
but must keep specifically to be returned. 
depositary (de-poz'i-ta-ri), a. and n. [= F. 
depositaire = Sp. Pg. It. depositario, < LL. de- 
positarius, only as a noun, one who receives a 
trust, < L. deposition, a trust, deposit : see de- 
posit, n.] I. a. Of deposit; receiving deposits: 
said of banks. 
No loss has resulted in this class of deposits for the past 
eighteen years, although a number of failures have taken 
place among the depositary banks. 
Rep. of Sec. of Treasury, 1886, p. 88. 
n. n.; pi. depositaries (-riz). 1. A person 
with whom anything is left or lodged in trust; 
one to whom a thing is committed for safe- 
keeping, or to be used for the benefit of the 
owner; a trustee; a guardian. Also depository. 
For a hundred years they [the Puritans] were the sole 
depositaries of the sacred fire of liberty in England. 
R. Choate, Addresses, p. 47. 
depositor 
The I.ivprjiool house was the authorized dtfOtitm-f of 
.niiriUritr funds in Europ*-. 
./. It. Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, p. IK. 
The first apostles atone were the depositaries nl the pure 
and perfect evangel. 
Swinburne, Fortnightly Rev., N. 8., XUI. 170. 
2. In law, a bailee of personal property, to be 
kept by him for the bailor without recompense, 
depositatet (de-poz'i-tat), a. [< ML. deposita- 
tus, pp. : see deposit, < . | Deposited. 
A marble inscription . . . signifying that his corpse Is 
depositate within. n<-. >,.,> r.,,,, . . !y( / . , . , MI -'' 
depositation (de-poz-i-ta'shon), . [< ML. 
as if *depoKihitio(n-), < depositare, deposit: see 
deposit, t'.] In Scots late, a contract by which 
something belonging to one person is intrusted 
to the gratuitous custody of another (called the 
depositary)^ to be redelivered on demand. A 
proper depositation is one where a special subject Is de- 
posited, tn lie restored without alteration. An improper 
depositation is one where money or other tangibles are de- 
posited, to tie returned In kind. Also deposit. 
depositing-dock (de-poz'i-ting-dok), H. See 
dock 3 . 
deposition (dep-o-zish'on), n. [< OF. deposi- 
tion, F. deposition = 8p. "deposicion = Pg. deposi- 
c&o = It. deposizionc, < LL. depositio(n-), a lay- 
ing down, < Li. deponere, pp. depositus, lay down, 
deposit: see deposit, depose, depone.} 1. The 
act of depositing; a lay ing down; lodgment or 
precipitation : as, the deposition of stones by a 
moving glacier, or of sediment by a river | the 
deposition of a metallic coating by galvanism. 
A benefactress to the convent, happening to die, was 
desirous of being buried in the cloister. . . . The society 
considered the deposition of their benefactress among 
them as a very great honour. 
Goldsmith, Cyrillo Padovano. 
The sediment brought down from the land would only 
prevent the growth of the coral in the line of its deposi- 
tion. Dartein, Coral Reefs, p. 89. 
The deponit/on of a delta is the work of tens of thou- 
sands of years. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 878. 
2. That which is deposited or placed ; a de- 
posit. [Rare.] 3f. The act oflaying down 
or bringing to notice ; presentation. 
The Influence of princes upon the dispositions of then- 
courts needs not the deposition of their examples, since It 
hath the authority of a known principle. 
W. Montague, Devoute Essays, I. Ix. i 2. 
4. Declaration ; assertion ; specifically, in late, 
testimony taken under interrogatories, written 
or oral, before an authorized officer, to be used 
as a substitute for the production of the witness 
in open court. The term is sometimes loosely used to 
include affidavits, which are ex-parte statements in writ- 
Ing, sworn to, but not taken judicially or quasl-judiclally, 
as are depositions strictly so called. In a deposition there 
may have been cross-examination ; in an affidavit, none. 
A deposition is evidence ; an affidavit may be evidence. 
If you will examine the veracity of the fathers by those 
circumstances usually considered in depositions .you will 
find them strong on their side. Sir K. Digby. 
5. In civil and common law : (a) A deposit ; a 
naked bailment of goods, to be kept for the 
bailor without reward, and to be returned when 
he shall require it, or delivered according to 
the object or purpose of the original trust. 
Story, Bailments, iv. 41. (6) The thing so de- 
posited. 6. The act of deposing a person from 
an office, or of depriving him of a dignity ; spe- 
cifically, the act of dethroning, or of removing 
from some important office or trust. 
After his deposition by the council of Lyons, the affairs 
of Frederic II. went rapidly Into decay. 
Uallain, Middle Ages, vil. 2. 
7f. In sur g. , the depression of the lens of the eye 
in the operation of couching. 8. The burial 
of a saint's body, or the act of transferring his 
remains or relics to a new resting-place or 
shrine; the festival commemorating such buri- 
al or translation: as, the Depositum of St. Mar- 
tin Deposition from the cross, the taking down of 
Christ's body from the cross, or the representation of that 
act in a work of art. = 8yn. 4. Testimony, etc. See evidence. 
depositiye (de-poz'i-tiv), a. [= OF. depositif; 
as deposit + -ive.] Depositing; tending to de- 
posit: in pafhol., applied to inflammation of 
the corium when the effusion of lymph into that 
membrane gives rise to small, hard elevations 
or pimples on the surface. 
depositor (de-poz'i-tor), n. [= F. depositevr, < 
LL. depositor, < L. deponere, pp. depositus, de- 
posit : see deposit."} One who makes a deposit : 
specifically, one who deposits money in a Dank. 
It is ordained by the sages of Hindustan that a deposi- 
tor shall carefully enquire into the character of his in 
tended depositary ; who, if he undertake to keep Uie good*, 
shall preserve them with care and attention. 
Sir W. Jones, Law of Bailment*. 
