unsceptre

English

Alternative forms

unscepter

Etymology

un- +‎ sceptre

Verb

1. To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.

   Synonyms: depose, dethrone, discrown, disenthrone, uncrown, unking, unthrone

   • 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect: A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England, London: John Bellamie, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 79,^[1]

     It is the custome for their Kings to inherite, the sonne alwayes taking the Kingdome after his fathers death. If there be no sonne, then the Queene rules; if no Queene, the next to the blood-royall, who comes in otherwise, is but counted an usurping intruder, and if his faire carriage beare him not out the better, they will soone unscepter him.

   • 1870, John Leicester Warren, “Pandora” in Rehearsals, London: Strahan, p. 23,^[2]

     Ye hate, shall hatred then unsceptre Zeus,

     Or anger empty any throne in heaven?

   • 1967, John Cairncross (translator), Berenice by Jean Racine, Act 3, Scene 1, in Andromache and Other Plays, Penguin, 1982, p. 255,^[3]

     I can make kings and unsceptre them,

     Yet cannot give my heart to whom I choose.

See also

• unsceptred (adjective)

Anagrams

• unrespect