deposition
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/dep'euh zish"euhn, dee'peuh-/, n.
1. removal from an office or position.
2. the act or process of depositing: deposition of the documents with the Library of Congress.
3. the state of being deposited or precipitated: deposition of soil at the mouth of a river.
4. something that is deposited.
5. Law.
a. the giving of testimony under oath.
b. the testimony so given.
c. a statement under oath, taken down in writing, to be used in court in place of the spoken testimony of the witness.
6. Eccles.
a. the interment of the body of a saint.
b. the reinterment of the body or the relics of a saint.
7. (
cap.) a work of art depicting Christ being lowered from the Cross.
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1350-1400; ME ( < AF) < LL deposition- (s. of depositio) a putting aside, testimony, burial, equiv. to L deposit(us) laid down (see DEPOSIT) + -ion- -ION]
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