bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - DEPONENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.

Related words: (words related to DEPONENT)

  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • WRITING
    1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
  • UNDERNIME
    1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • UNDERDELVE
    To delve under.
  • UNDERSTOOD
    imp. & p. p. of Understand.
  • UNDERDO
    To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.
  • UNDERCOAT
    1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.
  • UNDERCAST
    To cast under or beneath.
  • UNDERRATE
    A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley.
  • INEVIDENCE
    Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • TEN-POUNDER
    A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
  • DUNDERHEAD
    A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
  • TYPEWRITING
    The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.

 

Back to top