Word Finder - depositions

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The removal of someone from office.

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The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.

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The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.

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The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.

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The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.

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The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)

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The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.

The old rude arrangements of the middle ages had provided by frequent depositions that an inefficient sovereign should cease to rule, and those arrangements had been imitated in the cases of Charles I.

Moreover, Hincmar would not have cited the forged letters of the popes in 852; above all, this theory would not explain the chief preoccupation of the forger, which is to protect bishops against unjust judgments and depositions.

Of those, magnetron sputter depositions offer most potential.

As yet, there is no date scheduled to hear the case, though a list of expert witnesses must be submitted to the court by May 16, 2007, and all depositions are due into the court by July 13, 2007.

In the end Theodosius decided to confirm the depositions which had been pronounced on both sides, and Cyril and Memnon as well as Nestorius were by his orders laid under arrest.

His dying depositions, which were taken by Sir Francis North, chief justice of the common pleas, revealed nothing of importance.

At the inquisition of 1336 the burgesses claimed an annual fair on St Peter's Day, and depositions in 1577 mention a borough market held on Tuesday and Friday, but these were apparently extinct in Camden's day, and no grant of them is extant.

Of the seven Verrine orations only two were actually delivered; the remaining five were compiled from the depositions of witnesses, and published after the flight of Verres.

A series of fresh depositions were sent in against her, and in June 1679 it was decided that she must stand her trial; but she was protected by the king, who in this instance showed unusual chivalry and earned her gratitude.

The depositions of witnesses were returned to Rome in 1632, but meantime the forms of the Roman chancery had been changed by Urban VIII., and the advocates could not at once continue their work.

Eventually a new commission was issued in 1656, and on its report, into which were inserted nineteen of the former depositions, the "servant of God" was beatified in 1661.

He refused, however, to undertake the defence of John XXIII., and only appeared in the trial of this pope to make depositions against him, which were sometimes.