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or plucking off the feathers. [In furgery.] A fweillng 
of the eye-lids, accompanied with the fall of the hairs 
from the eye-brows. Phillips. 
To DEPI.U'ME, v. a. \_dc and plnma, Lat.] To drip 
of its feathers. 
To DEPO'NE, v. a. \_depono, Lat.] To lay down'as a 
pledge or fecurity. To rifqae upon the fuccefs of an 
adventure: 
On this I would depone 
As much, as any caufe I’ve known. Hudibras. 
DEPO'NENT, adj. [ dcponens , Lat.] Denoting parti¬ 
cular verbs in Latin.—A verb deponent endeth in r like 
a paflive, and yet in (ignification is but either aftive or 
neuter. Lilly. 
DEPO'NENT, / [from depono, Lat.] One that de- 
pofes his ffeftinrony in a court of juflice ; an evidence; a 
witnefs.—Depofition is the teftimony of a witnefs, taken 
in writing by way of anfwer to interrogatories exhibited 
in chancery^where fuch witnefs is called a deponent. Terrnes 
de la Ley .—[In grammar.] Such verbs as.have no aftive 
voice are called deponents, and generally fignify aftion 
only ; as ,fiteor, I confefs. Clarke. 
To DEPOPU'LATE, v. a. \_depopuler, Lat.] To un¬ 
people; to lay wade; to dedroy inhabited countries.—• 
He turned his arms upon unarmed and unprovided peo¬ 
ple, to fpoil only and depopulate, contrary to the laws both 
of war and peace. Bacon. 
Grim death, in different fhapes, 
Depopulates the nations ; thoufands fall 
His victims. Philips. 
To DEPOPU'LATE, v. n. To become difpeopled.— 
This is not the place to enter into an enquiry, whether 
the country be depopulating or not. Goldfmith. • 
DEPOPULATION,/ The act of unpeopling ; ha- 
vock ; wade ; deftruftion of mankind : 
Remote thou hear’d the dire effeft of war. 
Depopulation. Philips. 
DEPOPULA'TOR,/. A difpeopler; a dedroyer of 
mankind ; a wader of inhabited countries. 
To DEPO'RT, v. a. [feporter, Fr.] To carry ; to de¬ 
mean; to behave : it is ufed only with the reciprocal 
pronoun..—Let an ambaffador deport himfelf in the mod 
graceful manner before a prince. Pope. 
DEPO'RT, /. Demeanour ; grace of attitude ; beha¬ 
viour ; deportment: 
She Delia’s, felf 
In gait furpafs’d, and goddefs-like deport. , Milton. 
DEPORTA'TION, /. \_deportatio, Lat.] Tranfporta- 
tion ; exile into a remote part of the dominion, with pro¬ 
hibition to change the place of refidence. Exile in gene¬ 
ral.—An abjuration, which is a deportation for ever into a 
foreign land, was anciently with us a-civil death. Aylijfe. 
DEPORT'MENT,/ \_deportement, ,Fr.] Condudt; ma¬ 
nagement ; manner of adting.—I will but fweep the way 
with a few notes touching the duke’s own deportment in 
that ifland. Wotton.' —.Demeanour; behaviour..— The 
coldnefs of his temper, and the gravity of his deportment, 
carried him fafe through many difficulties, and he lived 
and died in a great ftation. Swift. 
To DEPO'SE, v. a. \_depono, Lat.] To lay down; to 
lodge; to let fall.—Its fhores are neither advanced one 
jot farther into the fea, nor its furface railed by addi¬ 
tional mud depofed upon it by the yearly inundations of 
the Nile. Woodward .—To degrade from a throne or high 
llation : 
Firft, of the king : what fliall of him become ? 
The duke yet lives that Henry fhall depofe. Shakefpeare. 
May your fick fame ftill languifh till it die ; 
Then, as the greateft curfe that I can give, 
Unpitied be depos’d , and after live. Dryden, 
To take away ; to diveft; to ftrip of. Not in ufes 
You may my glory and my ftate depofe, 
But not my griefs; ftill am I king of thofe. Shakefpeare. 
To give tefjimony ; to atteft.—It was ufual for him that 
dwelt in Southwark, or Tothill-ftreet, to depofe the yearly 
rent or valuation of lands lying in the north, or other re¬ 
mote part of the realm. Bacon. —To examine any one on 
his oath. Not now in ofe : 
According to our law, 
Depofe him in the juftice of his caufe. Shakefpeare. 
To DEPO'SE, v. n. To bear witnefs.—Love ftraight 
flood up and depofed, a lye could not come from the mouth 
of Zelniane.' Sidney. 
DEPO'SING./ The aft of dethroning: 
There fhould’ft thou find one heinous article 
Containing the depofing of a king. Shakefpeare. 
DEPOSITARY,/, \_depoftarius, Lat.] Onewithwhom 
any thing is lodged in truft: 
I gave you all, 
Made you my guardians, my depofitaries. Shakefpeare. 
To DEPO'SITE, v. a. \_depoftum, Lat.] To layup; to 
lodge in any place.—The eagle got leave here to depofte 
her eggs. L’Ef range. —Dryden wants a poor fquare foot 
of ftone, to fliew where the afhes of one of the greateft 
poets on earth are depofited. Garth. —To lay up as a pledge, 
or fecurity. To place at intereft.—God commands us to 
return, as to him, to the poor, his gifts, out of mere duty 
and thankfulnefs ; not to depofte them with him, in hopes 
of meriting by them. Spratt. —To lay afide.—The diffi¬ 
culty will be to perfuade the depofting of thofe luffs, 
which have, by I know not what fafeination, fo endeared 
themfelves. Decay of Piety. 
DEPO'SITE,/ \_dcpoftum, Lat.] Any thing commit¬ 
ted to the truft and care of another. A pledge; a pawn; 
a thing given as a fecurity. The ftate of a thing pawned 
or pledged.—-They had Marfeilles, and fairly left it; 
they had the other day the Valtoline, and now have put 
it in depofte. Bacon. 
DEPOSI'TION,/. [from depoftio, Lat.] The aft of 
giving public teftimony.—If you will examine the vera¬ 
city of the fathers by thofe circumftances ufually confi- 
dered in depofitions, you will find them ftrong on their fide. 
Sir K. Digby. —The act of degrading a prince from fo- 
vereignty. 
DEPOSI'TION,/ inlaw, the teftimony of a witnefs, 
otherwife called a deponent , put down in writing by way 
of anfwer to interrogatories exhibited for that purpofe, 
in chancery, &c. Proof in the high court of chancery is 
by'depofitions of witneffes; and the copjes of fuch, regu¬ 
larly taken and publifhed, are read as evidence at the 
hearing. For the purpofes of examining witneffes in or 
near London, there is an examiner’s office appointed; 
but, for fuch as live in the country, a commiffion to exa¬ 
mine witneffes is ufually granted to four co.mmilfioners, 
two named of each fide, or any three or two of them to 
take the depofitions there. And, if the witneffes relide 
beyond fea, a commiffion may be had to examine them 
there, upon their own oaths ; and, if foreigners, upon the 
oaths of two fkilful interpreters. And it hath been efta- 
blifhed, that the depofition of an heathen, who believes 
in the Supreme Being, taken by commiffion in the molt 
folemn manner, according to the cuftom of his own coun¬ 
try, may be read in evidence, i Atk. 21. The commif- 
fioners are fworn to take the examinations truly and with¬ 
out partiality, and not to divulge them till publifhed in 
the court of chancery ; and their clerks are alfo fworn to 
fecrecy. The witneffes are compellable, by procefs of 
fubpeena, as in the courfe of common law, to appear and 
fubmit to examination. And when their depofitions are 
taken, they are tranfmitted to the court with the fame 
care that the anfwer of a defendant is fent. 3 Comm. 449. 
After a witnefs is fully examined, the examinations are 
read over to him, and the witnefs is at liberty to alter, or 
amend 
