Both Uses of
depose
in
Moby Dick
- This is Charing Cross; hear ye! good people all,—the Greenland whale is deposed,—the great sperm whale now reigneth!†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol, and burnt it for an abomination at the brook Kedron, as darkly set forth in the 15th chapter of the First Book of Kings.†
Chpt 94-96
Definition:
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(depose as in: deposed the witness) to question another under oath and record another's legal statement