dethronize
English
Etymology
dethrone + -ize; compare Latin dethronizare.
Verb
dethronize (third-person singular simple present dethronizes, present participle dethronizing, simple past and past participle dethronized)
- (obsolete) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)
- 1679, John Reynolds, The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther: Expressed in Thirty Several Tragical Histories. Written by John Reynolds. The Sixth Edition, very Carefully Corrected. To which is Added, Gods Revenge against the Abominable Sin of Adultery. Containing Ten Several Histories, Never Printed before, Illustrated with New Sculptures, 6th corrected edition, London: Printed by J. Bennet, for Thomas Lee, at the Turks head in Fleetstreet, over against Fetter-Lane-End, OCLC 875092385, page 157:
- [T]hey conſult on this important buſineſs, how they may dethronize Baretana, and inthronize Albemare in the chair and choice of Clara’s affection: […]
Synonyms
- dethrone
- disenthrone
- disthrone
- disthronize
Antonyms
- enthrone
- inthrone
- inthronizate
- inthronize
Related terms
- dethronization
Translations
dethrone — see dethrone
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dethronize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)