The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deposit \De*pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deposited; p. pr. & vb. n. Depositing.] [L. depositus, p. p. of deponere. See Depone, and cf. Deposit, n.]
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To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.
The fear is deposited in conscience.
--Jer. Taylor. To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.
To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.
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To lay aside; to rid one's self of. [Obs.]
If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which I can not but deem an error.
--Hammond.Note: Both this verb and the noun following were formerly written deposite.
Wiktionary
n. (obsolete spelling of deposit English) vb. (obsolete spelling of deposit English)
Usage examples of "deposite".
Macpherson deposite the manuscript in one of the colleges at Aberdeen, where there are people who can judge.
At the time that I was at Louisville the water was lower than it had been remembered for years, and you could walk for miles over the bed of the river, a calcareous deposite full of interesting fossils.