dethrone

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.

   “[…] he (the said Pope) doth not onely claime to be spirituall head of all Christians, but also to haue an Imperiall Ciuill power ouer all Kings and Emperours, dethroning and decrowning princes with his foote, as pleaseth him […]”

2. fiil To remove any governing authority from power.

   “Not only where the chief magistrate enters into measures, in themselves, extremely pernicious to the public, but even when he wou’d encroach on the other parts of the constitution, and extend his power beyond the legal bounds, it is allowable to resist and dethrone him;”

3. fiil To remove from any position of high status or power.

   ““[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!””

4. fiil To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.

   “All that was Good and Holy, is dethron’d, And Lust, and Rapine are for justice own’d.”