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Deposition

noun

The natural process of laying down a deposit of something. Synonym: deposit.

(law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office.

The act of putting something somewhere. Synonym: deposit.

The act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office. Synonym: dethronement.

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"Deposition" Quotes from Famous Books

... reached the Maison Vauquer he had tacked together a whole string of examples and quotations more or less irrelevant to the subject in hand, which led him to give a full account of his own deposition in the case of the Sieur Ragoulleau versus Dame Morin, when he had been summoned as a ...

— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac

... last night; it is useless to deny it. We have the deposition of the proprietor, who is well known to the police—M. Hippolyte Ledantec; you shall be ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

... bouter the English out of the kingdom. At the same time she betrayed a constant conviction that her office had limitations and must come to an end. "I will last but a year," she said to the King and to Alencon. The testimony of Dunois seems to be the best we can have on this point. He says in his deposition, made many years after her death: "Although Jeanne sometimes talked playfully to amuse people, of things concerning the war which were not afterwards accomplished, yet when she spoke seriously of the war, and of her own career and her ...

— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant

... intercourse and trade between all parts of the United States, would work intolerable hardship had not statutes been passed by every State permitting testimony to be taken outside of its limits by written deposition for use ...

— The American Judiciary • Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

... and are subjected to several changes before they are perfected. At their early formative stage, they are cartilaginous. The vessels of the cartilage, at this period, convey only the lymph, or white portion of the blood; subsequently, they convey red blood. At this time, true ossification (the deposition of phosphate and carbonate of lime) commences at certain points, which are called the points ...

— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

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