Word Meanings - DEPOSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne. Fox.

Related words: (words related to DEPOSAL)

• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• DEPOSITARY
  One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. (more info) 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians,
• DEPOSITION
  The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
• DEPOSABLE
  Capable of being deposed or deprived of office. Howell.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• THRONELESS
  Having no throne.
• THRONE
  A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Milton. Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing. Young. (more info) 1. A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince,
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• DEPOSITUM
  Deposit.
• DEPOSITURE
  The act of depositing; deposition. Sir T. Browne.
• 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
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• DEPOSER
  1. One who deposes or degrades from office. 2. One who testifies or deposes; a deponent.
• DEPOSITORY
  1. A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records. 2. One with whom something is deposited; a depositary. I am the sole depository of my own secret,
• DEPOSIT
  1. To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor. 2. To lay up or away for safekeeping;
• REMOVAL
  The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
• DEPOSAL
  The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne. Fox.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• UNTHRONE
  To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• DISTHRONE
  To dethrone.
• DETHRONEMENT
  Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
• 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.
• REINTHRONE
  See REëNTHRONE
• INTHRONE
  See ENTHRONE
• NONDEPOSITION
  A failure to deposit or throw down.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.