depose

See also: dépose and déposé

English

Etymology

Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpəʊz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /diˈpoʊz/, /dəˈpoʊz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

Verb

depose (third-person singular simple present deposes, present participle deposing, simple past and past participle deposed)

1. (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
   • 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:

     additional mud deposed upon it

2. (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.

   A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.

   • 1643, William Prynne, “(please specify |part=1 to 4, or Appendix)”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC:

     a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed

3. (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
4. (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.

   After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Depose him in the justice of his cause.

5. (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
6. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations:

     to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

Synonyms

• declare

Antonyms

• restore

Derived terms

• deposable
• deposal
• indeposable
• undeposable

Related terms

• deponent
• deposit
• deposition
• depositio de bene esse

Translations

to put - or lay something down

• Bulgarian: депонирам (deponiram)
• Dutch: neerleggen (nl)
• German: niederlegen (de), deponieren (de)
• Romanian: depune (ro)

to remove (a leader) from office

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: عزل (ʕazal)

• Armenian: տապալել (hy) (tapalel), գահընկեց անել (gahənkecʻ anel)
• Bulgarian: детронирам (bg) (detroniram)
• Czech: sesadit pf, svrhnout pf
• Dutch: afzetten (nl), onttronen (monarch only), uit het ambt ontzetten
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• Finnish: suistaa vallasta
• German: absetzen; entthronen (de) (monarch only)
• Hebrew: הדיח (he) m (hediyakh)
• Hungarian: eltávolít (hu), letesz (hu)
• Irish: (Ceannaire) do briseadh amach, aithríoghadh (monarch only)
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• Maori: whakataka
• Polish: dymisjonować impf or pf, zdymisjonować pf, odwoływać (pl) impf, odwołać (pl) pf, detronizować (pl) impf (literary), zdetronizować (pl) pf (literary)
• Romanian: detronare (ro) f
• Russian: низлага́ть (ru) impf (nizlagátʹ), низложи́ть (ru) pf (nizložítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: svrgnuti (sh)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: avsätta (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

to give evidence or testimony

• Bulgarian: давам показания (davam pokazanija)
• Dutch: getuigen (nl), getuigenis afleggen
• German: unter (de) Eid (de) m aussagen (de), bezeugen (de)
• Hungarian: tanúsít (hu)
• Irish: fianaise a thabhairt
• Portuguese: depor (pt)
• Romanian: mărturisi (ro), a depune mărturie

to take an oath

• Bulgarian: давам клетва (davam kletva)
• Dutch: een/de eed afleggen/ zweren

to interrogate and elicit testimony

• Dutch: laten getuigen, onttronen, uit het ambt ontzetten, eed getuigenis/ afleggen afnemen, verhoren
• German: verhören (de)

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• Arabic: عزل (ʕázala), ^{(please verify)} خَلَعَ (ḵalaʕa), ^{(please verify)} أَقَالَ (ar) (ʔaqāla); ^{(please verify)} شَهِدَ أَمَامَ مَحْكَمَة (šahida ʔamāma maḥkama)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} võimult kõrvaldama, ^{(please verify)} (kirjalikult) tunnistama
• French: ^{(please verify)} déposer (fr), ^{(please verify)} faire une déposition, ^{(please verify)} prester serment, ^{(please verify)} interroger (fr)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} deporre (it)

Anagrams

• Speedo, epodes, speedo

Ido

Etymology

From depos (“since, afterward”) +‎ -e (“adverb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈpo.se/, /dɛ.ˈpɔ.sɛ/

Adverb

depose

1. since, from that time, thence, thenceforth

Related terms

• depos ke (“since”)

Italian

Verb

depose

1. third-person singular past historic of deporre