Word Meanings - DISENTHRONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.

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• DETHRONEMENT
  Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
• SOVEREIGN
  soverain, suvrain, F. souverain, LL. superanus, fr. L. superus that is above, upper, higher, fr. super above. See Over, Super, and cf. Soprano. The modern spelling is due to a supposed connection with 1. Supreme or highest in power; superior to
• DETHRONER
  One who dethrones.
• DETHRONE
  To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• SOVEREIGNIZE
  To exercise supreme authority. Sir T. Herbert.
• SOVEREIGNLY
  In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely. Chaucer.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• DEPOSE
  1. To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden. 2. To let fall; to deposit. Additional mud deposed upon it. Woodward. 3. To remove from a throne or other
• DEPOSER
  1. One who deposes or degrades from office. 2. One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.
• SOVEREIGNTY
  The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• COSOVEREIGN
  A joint sovereign.