dethrone

t. [O. Fr. desthroner: des= dis = apart, from, and O. Fr. throne =a throne (q. v.).] I. Lit.: To remove, depose, or drive from a throne; to divest or deprive of royal dignity. "The question of dethroning kings will always be an extraordinary question of state."- Burke: French IMG:content-2322.png:[blocks in formation] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Ending, limiting, bounding. *dět-1-ný, s. (DETINUE.) A detention, a retaining, a withholding. "This little deting is great iniquity."-Adams: Works, 1. 145. ( Davies.) , -tian shạn. -tion, IMG:content-2323.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A winding, turning, or beating about the bush. "This is in fact saying the same thing, only with more detours and circumvolutions." - Dr. Tucker: Letter to Dr. Kippis (1773), p. 65. dě-tract, v . t . & i . [Fr. détracter ; Sp. detractar , from Lat. detract us , pa. par. of detraho to draw away; de away, from, and traho =to draw.] *A. Transitive : 1. Lit .: To take or draw away; to abstract. "The multitude of partners does detract nothing from each private share, nor does the publicne of it le en propriety in it."- Boyle . 2. Fig .: To derogate; to take away from the good name or reputation of a person; to defame, to slander, to disparage. "Detracting what laboriously we do." Drayton: Moses , bk. ii. "Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fix'd forever to detract or praise." Byron: Monody on Death of Sheridan. 2. To take away from the reputation or good name me A. & B. As pr. par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst .: The act of slandering or defaming; detraction, de-tract-ing-ly, adv . [Eng. detracting ; -ly .] In a detracting, disparaging, or defamatory manner. "Rather by a hidden and oblique way insinuate his error to hin., than detractingly blaze it."- Bishop Hen- IMG:content-2324.png:[blocks in formation] *dět-o-nized, pa . par . or a . [DETONIZE.] *det-o-niz-ing, pr . par ., a . & 8. [DETONIZE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the We may justly now accuse Of detraction from her praise." "Do not detrect ; you know th' authority Is mine." Ben Jonson: New Inn , ii. 6. *de-trěc-tā-tion, s. [Lat. detrectatio .] A de- clining, a refusing, a refusal. IMG:content-2325.png:[blocks in formation] detrite