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.