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depositio

depositio · f

a laying down, putting off

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Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

dēpŏsĭtĭo — Lewis & Short

dēpŏsĭtĭo, ōnis, f.depono (post-Aug.; most freq. in jurid. Lat.).

I Lit., a laying down, putting off.

A A depositing for safe-keeping, Dig. 16, 3, 1; 5; 17.—

B A pulling or tearing down: aedificii, Dig. 4, 2, 9, § 2.—

C A depositing in the earth, burying, Inscr. Orell. 1121 (of 384 A.D.).—

D A parting from, getting rid of: carnis sordium, Vulg. 1 Pet. 3, 21; cf.: tabernaculi mei, i. e. the body, id. 2 Pet. 1, 14.—

II Trop.

A In gen.: testium, a deposition, testimony, Cod. 2, 43, 3: dignitatis, a lowering, degradation, Dig. 48, 19, 8 init.—

B In rhetor.

(a) The close of a period: prout aut depositio aut inceptio aut transitus postulabit, Quint. 11, 3, 46 Spald.—

(b) The lowering of voice, sound, or speed of utterance, = Gr. qe/sis (opp. a)/rsis = elatio), Mart. Cap. 9, § 974.

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