de·pone /dɪˈpon/
  (vt.)(vi.)發誓作證發誓作證
  De·pone v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deponed p. pr. & vb. n. Deponing.]
  1. To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.]
  2. To lay down. [R.]
  3. To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism]
     Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference.   --State Trials(1606).
  De·pone, v. i. To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism]
     The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree.   --Dunlop.
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  depone
       v : make a deposition; declare under oath [syn: swear, depose]