The said two deponents now most humbly and devoutly solicited the benefit of absolution. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The deponent was the policeman, and the sum of United States currency was one dollar. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
The subject of the deposition is called the deponent, and on this particular day the deponent was. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
That this deponent never saw the defendants, Ralph. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
Perfect pass. partic., force of w. deponent verbs, 112, b. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
This verb is deponent in the present, imperfect, and future. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Delegates from Saratoga, who told this deponent, that Samuel. From Wordnik.com. [A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen"] Reference
And this deponent further saith, That he has already suffered. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; this deponent arrived in. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
The deponent was there and was wounded, as were both the women. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
I respect the old man sincerely, and his family; farther, deponent sayeth not. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for the Young] Reference
On hearing this, deponent went to the old woman's house, and found her grievously scorched. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Does not the law require that every accuser or deponent should have been a witness of the crime?. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The perfect participle of deponent verbs is often best rendered into English by a present participle. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
We immediately cancelled the deposition and I let the grateful deponent try to go home to her family. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: September 2006 Archives] Reference
WHEREFORE, deponent prays that DEBRA RYAN, the defendant, be imprisoned or bailed, as the case may be. From Wordnik.com. [Girlfriend of Bayou Fugitive] Reference
The deponent did what he was ordered, and what his late lord, the Pangeran Budrudeen, desired him to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
And it did -- whether nicely or not deponent saith not? but it certainly constituted the club programme. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
The perfect participle of deponent verbs takes past or present meaning indifferently, according to context. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Perhaps, though, they may have been, only 'tis so long ago as not to be within the ken of the present deponent. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891] Reference
The perfect active participle is wanting in Latin, but the perfect participle of deponent verbs is active in meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Ditto, for taking an oath or affidavit -- slow, solemn music, with a marked emphasis when the deponent kisses the book. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841] Reference
When I reached the deposition site, I found the deponent panicking and the staff in the office running around going crazy. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: September 2006 Archives] Reference
The deponent escaped with difficulty; and a few days afterward, the ring intrusted to his charge, was taken from him by the sultan. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
On board this ship the deponent saw several American prisoners, who were closely confined and ironed, with only four men's allowance to six. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
The deponent then quitted his lord, who was with the two women, and immediately after his lord fired the powder, and the three were blown up. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
The deponent has every reason to believe there was a premeditated scheme to infect all the prisoners who had not been infected with the smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
And this deponent further saith, that after the burning of the said toad her child recovered and was well again, and was living at the time of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
If there were a perfect active participle, it would stand in the nominative, modifying the subject, as we have found the perfect participle of deponent verbs doing. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
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