OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 40287

dethrone

Meanings (ES + gloss)
destronar
To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.
Thou, Goddess-Mother, with our Sire comply, Nor break the sacred Union of the Sky: Lest, rouz’d to Rage, he shake the blest Abodes, Launch the red Lightning, and dethrone the Gods.
[…] 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 decrow…