To lay down; let fall; deposit.
To lay aside.
To remove; eject; evict.
To remove from office, especially from royalty, or from high executive, ecclesiastical, or judicial office; dethrone; divest of office: as, to depose a king or a bishop.
To take away; strip off (from one); divest (one of).
To testify to; attest.
To examine on oath; take the deposition of.
To bear witness.
Specifically To give testimony on oath; especially, to give testimony which is embodied in writing in a deposition or an affidavit; give answers to interrogatories intended as evidence in a court: as, he deposed to the following facts; the witness deposes and says that, etc.