Translation
to put down, lay aside; deposit, entrust
Examples
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He put the burden down on the ground.
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They were ordered to lay down their arms.
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The bishop had deposited the money in the church.
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The king does not want to lay aside his anger.
Timebant .
They were afraid that the consul would depose them.
Depono, deponere, deposui, depositum is de plus pono, third conjugation, and it inherits pono's odd perfect stem posu- rather than anything you could guess from the present. The base sense is to set something down and leave it there, which fans out in every direction Latin needs: lay down arms, lay aside anger, deposit money or a pledge with someone, and lay a body to rest.
In this corpus the church senses dominate. Deponere is the standard verb for removing a cleric from office, which is why depositio means both a burial and a deposition from rank - the same word, two solemn kinds of putting down. English deposit, depose, deposition and deponent all come through it; the grammarians' "deponent verb" is one that has laid aside its passive meaning.
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