disthronize

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ throne +‎ -ize.

Verb

disthronize (third-person singular simple present disthronizes, present participle disthronizing, simple past and past participle disthronized)

(archaic, rare) To remove from the throne, to dethrone.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Deposed was from Princedome soueraine, / And pitteous Elidure put in his sted; / Who shortly it to him restord againe, / Till by his death he it recouered; / But Peridure and Vigent him disthronized.

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