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unˈqueen, v.
[un-2 6 b, 4.]
1. trans. To deprive of, depose from, the rank or position of queen.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf D ij, Is it not more then probable..that the next prince..wyl drawe it [sc. England] also..under the law Salique, and so quite vnqueen the desolate sister? 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iv. ii. 171 Embalme me, Then lay me forth (although vnqueen'd) yet like A Queene. 1673Season. Disc. Maintain. Establ. Relig. 9 Nor was she unqueen'd enough by all this. 1821To the King 9 We must un-queen your wife, because she is immoral. 1833H. Coleridge Poems I. 38 Old times unqueen thee, and old loves endear thee. 1873Athenæum 22 Feb. 240/2 The divorce which was to unqueen Catherine of Arragon.
2. To remove the queen from (a hive).
1884Bee-keeping 23 Unqueen your diseased stock, cutting out all queen-cells ten days after.
Hence unˈqueened ppl. a.
1820Scott Abbot xxiii, Go thou..and render the usual service of the meal to this unqueened Queen. 1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 388 The un-queened, un-sexed, un⁓Lutheranized, Christina. |