depose vs relegate

depose

verb
  • To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition 

  • To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm. 

  • To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. 

  • To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer. 

  • To take or swear an oath. 

  • To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. 

relegate

verb
  • Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof. 

  • Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification. 

  • Exile or banish to a particular place. 

  • Remove or send to a place far away. 

  • Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate. 

  • Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority. 

  • Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division. 

  • Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate. 

How often have the words depose and relegate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )