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|lshtext=<b>dēpŏsĭtĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[depono]] ([[post]]-Aug.; [[most]] freq. in jurid. Lat.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a laying [[down]], putting [[off]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A depositing for [[safe]]-[[keeping]], Dig. 16, 3, 1; 5; 17.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A pulling or [[tearing]] [[down]]: aedificii, Dig. 4, 2, 9, § 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> A depositing in the [[earth]], burying, Inscr. Orell. 1121 (of 384 A.D.).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: testium, a [[deposition]], [[testimony]], Cod. 2, 43, 3: dignitatis, a [[lowering]], [[degradation]], Dig. 48, 19, 8 init.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In [[rhetor]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[close]] of a [[period]]: [[prout]] aut [[depositio]] aut [[inceptio]] aut [[transitus]] postulabit, Quint. 11, 3, 46 Spald.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[lowering]] of [[voice]], [[sound]], or [[speed]] of [[utterance]], = Gr. [[θέσις]] (opp. [[ἄρσις]] = [[elatio]]), Mart. Cap. 9, § 974.