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unˈseat, v.
[un-2 5.]
1. trans. To dislodge from a seat (esp. on horseback).
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. x. 10 Whom boldly I encountred..And by good fortune shortly him vnseated. 1784Cowper Task vi. 553 His horse..Rush'd to the cliff, and..stood. At once the shock unseated him. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 177 Beatte was nearly unseated from his saddle. 1845J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific xvi. 247 The boat plunged down..with so violent a shock, that nearly all were unseated. 1895Scully Kafir Stories 170 My horse..wheeled sharply to the right, completely unseating me.
transf.1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 84 But Constantine..displaced and unseated this huge masse. 1839Marryat Phant. Ship ii, The probing of the wound would half unseat my reason. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., To unseat a boiler; to unseat a valve.
2. To dislodge from some place or position; to deprive of rank or office.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. Summary, In Germany by intrusion they vnseated the Sueuians. 1661J. Davies Civ. Warres 371 [They] resolved next morning to unseat the Parliament once more. 1826Hood Recipe for Civiliz. 89 Whereas a cook would soon unseat him [sc. Apis], And make his own churchwardens eat him. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. iv. 67 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily, and with perfect assurance,..might..unseat any sovereign, and abrogate any constitution in Europe and America. 1878Taylor Deukalion iii. vi. 135 The Gods of races I unseat, as Time or Tyranny of old Unseated them.
b. spec. To deprive of, or depose from, a seat in Parliament or other representative body.
1834Tait's Mag. I. 541/1 Had one third of the exceptions held good, it was clear the Governor must be unseated. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. xxx. 294 The first case..was speedily disposed of by unseating the member. |