- Indeed, if we are to
believe the pre-trial examinations,
Geillis Duncan deponed in
January 1591 that
Agnes Sampson had said 'Now the king is
going to f[etch...
- aufer, take),
indicating that the
player takes one from the pool, D (Lat.
depone, put down) when a fine has to be paid, N (Lat. nihil, nothing), and T (Lat...
- contrapositive, contrapposto, counterproposition, decomposition, decompound,
depone, deponent, deposit, deposition, depositional, depositor, depository, dispone...
- A, D, N and T form a
mnemonic for the
rules of the game,
aufer (take),
depone (put),
nihil (nothing), and
totum (all). Similarly, the
Hebrew letters on...
-
anglicised forms such as "I"
rather than "A", and "and"
instead of "an": "I
depone aat I wull be leal and bear ae full
alleadgance tae her
majesty Queen Elizabeth...
-
converged cosmos cruel debate(s) declare(s)
defended define(s)
depended depone(s)
deponed derive(s) detective(s) determine(s)
diabetes dispute(s) don eclipse(s)...
- he
quotes from "The Dead Drummer": "now one Mr
Jones comes forth and
depones …" In
Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts,
Chapter 11 "The
Marches of...
-
articles of the libel. He
testified to
having conducted a marriage: he "
deponed that he
married Alexander Campbell, in Calder's-land, with
Lilias Dunbar...
- conventicles; and the
verity thereof being referred to his own oath he
refused to
depone; and
confessed he had
conversed with Mr John
Welsh on the borders, and had...
- him, and
continue his
imprisonment so long,
because he had not
freedom to
depone upon the libel, the
reasons wherefore he
could not,
being not only from...
