Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dethrone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To dethrone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
dethrone ; to remove from thethrone .
Etymologies
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dis- + throne: compare Old French desthroner.
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Examples
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Through all dominated a grand repose, like the calm of nature, which storms may prove but not disthrone!
Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890
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