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 the throne.

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ throne: compare Old French desthroner.

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Examples

  • 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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