Word Meanings - DETHRONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.

Related words: (words related to DETHRONE)

• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• SUPREME
  Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, the Almighty; God. (more info) above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. 1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• 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.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• DRIVEWAY
  A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
• THRONELESS
  Having no throne.
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• SUPREMELY
  In a supreme manner.
• 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
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• DIVEST
  See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
• DRIVEBOLT
  A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• UNTHRONE
  To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.
• DISTHRONE
  To dethrone.
• FORDRIVE
  To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.
• FULL-DRIVE
  With full speed.
• HOME-DRIVEN
  Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
• CONTINENTAL DRIVE
  A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• COSUPREME
  A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.