depone

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Observation depones to the existence of the perception of matter as the first datum with which it has to deal, but it depones to the existence of nothing anterior to this.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

"He depones like you was a doctor that went out to make visits, Sister."

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré

And further depones, That the said knob was bigger above and smaller below, and shaped something like a heart.

From Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot by Scott, Walter, Sir

And this is truth, as he shall answer to God, and depones he cannot write.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

And this is the truth, as she shall answer to God; and depones she cannot write.

From Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot by Scott, Walter, Sir