† unmonarchv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive (in passive). To be without a monarch. rare.
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1664 K. Philips Poems ii. 4 As we unmonarch'd were for want of thee.
2. transitive. To deprive of sovereignty; to depose.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > depose a sovereign
deposec1300
despose1485
unmonarch1681
dispurple1877
1681 Sir J. Tyrrell (title) Patriarcha non monarcha. The patriarch unmonarch'd..; in which the falseness of those opinions that would make monarchy jure divino are laid open.
1746 Fool (1748) II. 2 [They] take great Pains to unmonarch me, and constitute themselves in my Stead.
1818 J. Hassell Rides & Walks II. 123 The dignity and sarcasm..so far unmonarched his most Christian majesty, that he burst into a violent fit of passion.
1869 Scott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 76/2 Man is constrained to unmonarch his intellect.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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