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verbdisthronize (third-person singular simple present disthronizes, present participle disthronizing, simple past and past participle disthronized)
present singular third person disthronizes · participle present disthronizing · participle past disthronized · past disthronized
- archaicrareTo remove from the throne, to dethrone.
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.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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