To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
additional mud deposed upon it
To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
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 dep...
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