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dethrone, v.|dɪˈθrəʊn|
[f. de- II. 2 + throne: cf. F. détrôner, in 16th c. detroner (Littré), Cotgr. desthroner ‘to disthronize’; cf. also disthrone, disthronize.]
trans. To remove from the throne; to deprive of royal or sovereign authority and dignity; to depose (a ruling prince).
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 153 Authoritie to de-Throan and de-Crowne Princes. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems. Wks. (1711) 15 Then let them do their worst, since thou art gone! Raise whom they list to thrones, enthron'd dethrone. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 43 The question of dethroning, or, if these gentlemen like the phrase better, ‘cashiering’, kings. 1839Thirlwall Greece VI. 121 That Artaxerxes whom Cyrus attempted to dethrone.
b. transf. and fig.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love vi. (1700) 42 Love, by dethroning Reason..doth kill the Man. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 319 That republicans being dethroned by Cromwell. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 604 Dethrone the sin that would rule over your frail nature.
Hence deˈthroned ppl. a., deˈthroning vbl. n.
1648Prynne Speech in Parlt. 4 Dec. (1649) 75 By a speedy publique dethroning and decolling of the King..as the Army-Remonstrants advise. 1705J. Philips Blenheim (R.), His dethron'd compeers. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 136 Compensations for dethroned princes. 1892Athenæum 27 Aug. 299/1 The story..is that Nero's wife Poppæa..is the head of a plot for her husband's dethroning and slaughter. |